ART CLASSES with Evelyn Harvey

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
8 weeks - Mondays, starting Mar. 30

9:30am-12:30pm

Using linoleum blocks, carve your own image. This course guides you through the steps of sketching, carving, inking, and printing. This course offers exploration in relief image making, creating a single color and multi-color prints, while reviewing printmaking skills and techniques. Instructor demonstration is given, and one on one feedback is provided. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
8 weeks - Tuesdays, starting Mar. 31

6:30pm-9:30pm

Using linoleum blocks, carve your own image. This course guides you through the steps of sketching, carving, inking, and printing. This course offers exploration in relief image making, creating a single color and multi-color prints, while reviewing printmaking skills and techniques. Instructor demonstration is given, and one on one feedback is provided. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

6 weeks - Wednesdays, starting Apr. 1

9:30am-12:30pm

What’s a dynamic composition? What makes it interesting? This course looks to review what a composition is, how best to frame and create visual engagement. Using life as drawing inspiration the class also is designed to develop basic drawing skills to create a three dimensional illusion on paper. The class explores line expression, line variation, scale and proportion, depth, composition, and value to render an image. A great class to take with painting or on its own. The course encourages group critique and discussion, and provides one on one instructor feedback. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
6 weeks - Tuesdays, starting Mar. 31

4:00pm-6:00pm

In this course, students work with a variety of drawing and painting medium to create their own artwork each class. The course overviews the foundation of using the materials and expressing it by review line, shape, value, scale, and composition. The first half focuses on different drawing mediums and the second focuses on one painting project. Instructor feedback is given, and group discussion is encouraged. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
6 weeks - Wednesdays, starting Apr. 8

4:00pm-6:00pm

Get ready to roll, press, and wow! In this exciting hands-on class, you'll dive into the colorful world of monotype printmaking—where every print you make is totally unique! We’ll explore awesome techniques like Gelli plate printing, watercolor pencil on acrylic sheets, and trace monotypes.Each method is a new adventure in layering, texture, and material discovery. You'll get lots of personal tips from your instructor and have fun sharing ideas with your fellow artists. Come experiment, make a mess (the fun kind!), and leave with artwork you’ll be proud of. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

Saturday, Mar. 7 2:00pm-5:00pm

An introductory workshop to the process of relief printmaking. Using a linoleum block, design and carve your own image to print on paper. The workshop reviews what printmaking is, how to handle the carving tools, creating an image through relief, registering paper, and printing. This workshop is geared for those who want to explore the process and understand the steps and tools required. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT

Saturday, May 16 10:30am-1:00pm

Color is an important and complex element in art and design. In this color theory workshop, taught by Evelyn Harvey, you will analyze and determine the properties of color, explore color relationships, and learn to utilize the color wheel. 

Using acrylic paint as the medium, students will mix color using only the primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) to create a wide range of hues, engaging with color shifts, changes, and visual tones. Students will create a “color wheel–like” painting that explores color mixing through a final image. One-on-one feedback is provided, and group discussion is encouraged. For more information and registration visit carriagebarn.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

4 day workshop series

May 11-14, 2:00pm-4:00pm

Using a soft rubber block, carve your own printable image. This intensive workshop guides students through the steps of sketching, carving, inking, and printing. Offering exploration in relief image making at a larger scale. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

June 22 - 26

9:00am-12:00pm

Learn the foundations of drawing from observation. Through the study of still life drawing, students will be taught how to asses objects in their surroundings, consider depth and scale to illustrate each object’s relation to another and implement various lines to describe visual sensations. For more information and registration visit  silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

June 22 - 26

1:00pm-4:00pm

Have an image in mind to transform into a painting? This class encourages using the photo as a tool to help express your own composition. Great for beginner to intermediate the camp reviews the basics of acrylic painting. How to start, use brushes, palette knives, develop color analysis, and mix paint to create their own image. The course encourages group critique and discussion, and provides one on one instructor feedback. For more information and registration visit  silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

July 6-10

1:00pm-4:00pm

Beginner to intermediate acrylic painting class going over the basics of acrylic paint, how to start and manipulate this medium. Create a composition from life observation, a classic painting study. Students use brushes, palette knives, analyze color, and mix paint to create their own image. The course encourages group critique and discussion, and provides one on one instructor feedback. For more information and registration visit  silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

July 27-31

9:00am-12:00pm

Monotype is all about creating unique one of a kind prints. Roll back the paper to reveal your technical or expressively abstract sensibility. The main printing methods will be Gelli plate – quick, expressive, with layer capabilities, and watercolor monotypes – drawing and color focus, print using the printing press. One on one feedback is given, and group discussion is encouraged. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

August 3-7

9:00am-12:00pm

Work with tools to carve, cut, ink, and print your own design. Similar to a rubber stamp, explore the graphic design process of transforming your image into a single color print. Students will use carving tools to carve away to the surface of a rubber block, leaving behind a ‘relief’ image that can be inked and printed many times. One on one feedback is given, group discussion is encouraged. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

August 3-7

1:00pm-4:00pm

Beginner to intermediate acrylic painting class going over the basics of acrylic paint, how to start and manipulate this medium. Create a composition from life observation, a classic painting study. Students use brushes, palette knives, analyze color, and mix paint to create their own image. The course encourages group critique and discussion, and provides one on one instructor feedback. For more information and registration visit  silvermineart.org

at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

August 10-14

9:00am-12:00pm

Monotype is all about creating unique one of a kind prints. Roll back the paper to reveal your technical or expressively abstract sensibility. The main printing methods will be Gelli plate – quick, expressive, with layer capabilities, and watercolor monotypes – drawing and color focus, print using the printing press. One on one feedback is given, and group discussion is encouraged. For more information and registration visit silvermineart.org