Susan (Szn) Kraft's Posts - Artists2artists Social Network2024-03-28T09:59:21ZSusan (Szn) Krafthttps://artdeadline.ning.com/profile/SusanSznKrafthttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/65476209?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://artdeadline.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=29o8skg3ttl12&xn_auth=noART WORKSHOPS in Plein Air, Outdoor Photography, Abstracted Figure by talented, professional artiststag:artdeadline.ning.com,2009-10-16:3077055:BlogPost:213612009-10-16T03:26:38.000ZSusan (Szn) Krafthttps://artdeadline.ning.com/profile/SusanSznKraft
Accent Arts is having ART WORKSHOPS in Plein Air, Outdoor Photography, Abstracted Figures by talented, professional artists<br />
All small classes. Instruction available as needed while you work.<br />
Location: 392 California Avenue Palo Alto, CA<br />
Sign up by calling (650) 424-1044<br />
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Instruction in plein air painting, in a 2-day workshop for $115<br />
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* Day one: inside classroom for orientation, then outside, within walking distance, for Outdoor Painting.<br />
* Day two: in the…
Accent Arts is having ART WORKSHOPS in Plein Air, Outdoor Photography, Abstracted Figures by talented, professional artists<br />
All small classes. Instruction available as needed while you work.<br />
Location: 392 California Avenue Palo Alto, CA<br />
Sign up by calling (650) 424-1044<br />
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Instruction in plein air painting, in a 2-day workshop for $115<br />
<br />
* Day one: inside classroom for orientation, then outside, within walking distance, for Outdoor Painting.<br />
* Day two: in the classroom. Small classes. Instruction available as needed while you work.<br />
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Oct 24-25<br />
Saturday: 10am -11am, 11:30-4pm. (Bring a sack lunch.)<br />
Sunday: 12-4 in classroom<br />
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Instructor Will Maller - awarded and honored for California Plein Air work.<br />
See Mr. Maller on a TV show where he speaks of his work>> http://blip.tv/file/2318163<br />
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Instruction in Outdoor Photography, in a 2-day workshop for $200 <a><br />
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* Day one: meet at pre-defined place near Carmel 11 am until sunset.<br />
* Day two: meet in the Accent Arts classroom with your photos from the day before<br />
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Oct 31-Nov 1<br />
Saturday: 11am - sunset. (Bring a sack lunch.)<br />
Sunday: 1 - 4 in classroom<br />
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Instructor Joe Decker- awarded and honored for his amazing outdoor work. His nature photography is a descendent of the West Coast school of landscape photography.<br />
See Mr. Decker's work on his website>> http://www.rockslidephoto.com/<br />
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Instruction in abstracted figures and collage, in a 2-day workshop for $155<br />
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* Day one: inside classroom at Accent Arts for orientation and practical lessons on compiling shapes and colors<br />
* Day two: inside classroom with more practical lessons to bring out a figure from the chaos of the abstraction.<br />
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Nov 7-8<br />
Saturday: 10am-12, 1-4 in classroom (Bring a sack lunch or lunch money.)<br />
Sunday: 1-5 in classroom<br />
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Instructor Jill Andre’ – Highly collected for her Abstracted Figurative work.<br />
See Ms. Andre’ on a TV show where she speaks of her work>> http://blip.tv/file/2317864<br />
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Instruction in “Fresh” Landscapes, in a 2-day workshop for $155<br />
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* Day one: inside classroom at Accent Arts for orientation and practical lessons on using intense colors in your landscape artwork.<br />
* Day two in the classroom with more practical lessons on using shapes and strong, powerful color in your fresh new landscape(s).<br />
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Nov 14-15<br />
Saturday: 10am-12, 1-4 in classroom (Bring a sack lunch or lunch money.)<br />
Sunday: 1-5 in classroom<br />
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Instructor Maya Babiszewska; studied at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn, Poland. She uses color as her most important element in painting.<br />
See Ms. Babiszewska on a TV show where she speaks of her work>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYbySkdthuY</a>The ultimate human experience: creating arttag:artdeadline.ning.com,2009-04-09:3077055:BlogPost:45112009-04-09T17:55:23.000ZSusan (Szn) Krafthttps://artdeadline.ning.com/profile/SusanSznKraft
Creating art, to engage in creation, is my ultimate human experience.<br />
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I don't want to be too far out there, so that this blog becomes a soap box trapped in a hall of mirrors, where I only see myself nodding in agreement at every angle. But sometimes I get so choked up with what it is we all do with our lives as artists, it becomes condensed and heavy by the time I speak the words.<br />
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I once listened to some crazy Russian artists giving a talk at a UC Berkeley hall. Personally, off stage, I found…
Creating art, to engage in creation, is my ultimate human experience.<br />
<br />
I don't want to be too far out there, so that this blog becomes a soap box trapped in a hall of mirrors, where I only see myself nodding in agreement at every angle. But sometimes I get so choked up with what it is we all do with our lives as artists, it becomes condensed and heavy by the time I speak the words.<br />
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I once listened to some crazy Russian artists giving a talk at a UC Berkeley hall. Personally, off stage, I found them to be pompous *ssholes, but their thesis rang so true to me, I've stolen it and used it many times over. Their line of reasoning, put bluntly was this: God created us, we create art, we have become the Creator, come see our art and take communion with us. They had a tray with dozens of small glasses filled with some Russian-style Jägermeister liqueur. We each came up onto the stage, one at a time, to be personally blessed and take our communion with them. That was cool. So maybe their cool *assholes. A notch up.<br />
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That was about seven years ago. Actually, I think they are famous, cool *ssholes. You know, shown in museums (plural) and referenced for some other public oddity like polling people to create a the people's choice painting. Then they actually painted it using statistically winning elements, such as a blue landscape with a deer and a human. Something like that. Anyway, it turned out to be an uninteresting piece, thus supporting the original thesis, in my mind - we are the creators and different from the non-creatives.