Studio UFO

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OPEN STUDIO WEDNESDAYS Painting, Trish Harding instructor

• Open Studio Painting, any medium with personal instruction geared to “your project”.
• Join the UFO Group for a relaxed and focused all day painting session.
• Expect spirited presentations and lively critiques.
• Bring a lunch or plan to go out to lunch during an hour break at noon.
• Gift Exchange and Potluck will be held on 12/16 at noon.

Five-5 hr sessions, Wednesdays, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 12/23, 12/30, 10am-3pm, $195

OR One 5 hr session @ $45 each.   You must specify dates.

 OPEN STUDIO THURSDAYS Painting, Trish Harding instructor

• All skill levels welcome

• Paint in any medium with personal instruction geared to “your project”.
• Join the UFO Group for a relaxed and focused all day painting session.
• Expect spirited presentations and lively critiques.
• Bring a lunch or plan to go out to lunch during an hour break at noon.
• Gift Exchange and Potluck will be held on 12/17 at noon.

Five-5 hr sessions, Thursdays, 12/3, 12/10,12/17,12/24,12/31, 10am-3pm, $195

OR One 5 hr session @ $45 each.  You must specify dates.

RESPONSIVE DRAWING WORKSHOP, with Trish Harding

• First part of the workshop will be a discussion about responsive drawing.
• The second part of the workshop will be a responsive drawing demonstration by Trish
• During the third part of the workshop students will put to work what they have learned about responsive drawing.
• We will be drawing from a model.
• This workshop will be followed with another in Jan 2010 that will take the student into Experimental Drawing through various exercises.

One-2 ½ hour session, $35Saturday, 12/19, 10am-12:30

CLOTHED FIGURE DRAWING SESSION- no instructionTues 12/8, 10am-noon, $12 prepay plus $2 minimum model tip at the time of session

NUDE FIGURE DRAWING SESSION- no instructionTues 12/22, 6:30-8:30pm, $15 prepay plus $2 minimum model tip at time of session 

CLASSES OFFERED AT WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Trish Harding- instructor, to register call 383-3200Figure Drawing, Jan 22-Feb 19, Friday 1-3:30pmAdvanced Figure Drawing, Mar 5-Mar 26, Friday 1-3:30pm

Hello Everyone,

Here is a great class coming up at Studio UFO.  Register asap as I close the class when it is full.  Email for registration form trish.harding@studioufo.net.

• Continue your investigation into the oil painting medium
• Learn about  the “Earth” family of pigments
• Learn where Earth Pigments come from and how they work
• Understand where these colors appear on the color wheel
• Learn about what their relationships are to each other and the rest of the color wheel
• Find out about Organic and Inorganic pigments
• Put this information to use by swatch painting and exercises

1-2 ½ hour session, Friday, 12/11/09, 10am-12: 30pm, $30

BRING:  Your supplies that you brought to the 1^st Oil Painting Workshop at Studio UFO including the gessoes surfaces for exercises.

If you did not attend the 1^st Oil Painting Workshop at Studio UFO here is your supplies list:

Paints: bring all that you have but at least the following or their equivalent, (i.e. cadmium yellow light can replace hansa yellow).

• Primary colors: alizarin crimson, hansa yellow, phthalo blue
• Secondary colors: cadmium red light, phthalo green, ultramarine violet
• Earths:  burnt umber, sienna, yellow ochre
• White: Titanium or Zinc
• You will not need black

Brushes:  bring what you have but you will need at least two of a similar size as below:

• One ½ inch flat or filbert long bristles
• One ¼ inch flat or filbert long bristles

Other:

• Odorless mineral spirits with container
• Paper towels
• Easel (I have a few in the studio-first come first serve)
• Palette (I use paper plates)
• Baby wipes, optional

Surface: 

• 4 pieces gessoed scrap mat board or gessoed paper (for exercises. Does not need to be expensive or fancy and no smaller than 11”x 14’ish).
• We will be focused on exercises not a finished painting in this workshop.

Optional:  I use a specific Color Wheel in all of my classes at Studio UFO, Whatcom Community College and Creative Arts Community.  I will have the Quiller Color Wheel available in two sizes  for $5 each at class.

Woodstock Grasses

Oil Painting by Trish Harding

20″ x 16″ Sold-a portion of the sales price has gone to benefit Blue Horse Gallery in the Friends of the Blue Horse Show.

Visit Studio UFO for Downtown Art Walk Dec. 4th. Original Art makes a fabulous gift!! Studio UFO will be open from 6pm to 10pm. Gift Certificates to send a friend or a loved one to classes at Studio UFO are available too!

Diane Townsend
June 11-14, 2010
Going Into Abstraction in Pastels
All Levels
$350 (for NPS Members only, until Dec 31, 2009)

Robyn Williamson of Dakota Art Pastels is offering any member of the NPS this workshop for $350 just until Dec 31, 2009! After that time the price will go to it?s regular price of $435. Just a phone call or email right now will reserve your spot. She will start to take deposits and payments Jan 1, 2010 but needs your reservation right now!

We are so grateful to Robyn to offer us this discount this year as we as a society have opted to not plan and conduct our own workshop this year because of the challenging economic times. This is a win-win situation for us. We not only get a better price but we do not have to do all the work or arrange and house this workshop.

Keep our society strong and vital!

Contact Robyn: phone number 360-416-6556, www.dakotaartstore.com, or robyn@laconnerartworkshops.com

Become a member www.nwps.org

Trish Harding
NPS President

personal invitation

Hello to you, beautiful people!
This information is in reference to my performance art piece
on Tuesday Nov. 17. Please read information about the piece
after this brief announcement about actors’ call:

So I’m adjusting my call time for people to come and join us
in the performance art piece (again, described below). Instead of meeting
at 5:00, I’m calling the “Leisure” group at 5:30 to set up and do
a run through. This might be easier, coming from work.
If you would like to participate, and CAN make 5:30 or even squeak
in at 5:45, please email me to confirm your participation.
So far we have picnic groupings of painting, and reading
poetry aloud. I’d love to have a musical group, perhaps a dance group,
and maybe a juggler. I definitely want this to be intergenerational,
so if we can get children and elders involved too, that would be wonderful!
Thanks for passing this on to others.
Excitedly,
Drue
Here’s the original announce again - please paste it and send it to others who may be interested.
Hi Everyone!
I am reaching out to invite you and your families and friends
TO PARTICIPATE - as “Actors of Leisure”
in a performance piece that I’m directing in the lobby of Bellingham City Hall on
Tuesday, November 17th. This performance piece is presented in conjunction
with Dr. Charles Sylvester’s lecture: “Thoughts on America’s Ambivalence on
Work and Leisure” as part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s
Community Lecture series. (SEE INFO AT THE END OF THIS EMAIL)
* Please pass this email on to those who might want to participate.
If YOU want to participate, all you have to do is dress in white, sit, eat, enjoy
yourselves “in character” in the lobby - playing guitar, dancing, reading, etc.)
Wow! What a gig!
Here’s the scoop:
We need 20-30 bodies - YOUR bodies - doing fun
“leisurely” things, at the same time my 15 Fairhaven College students
are doing their “work” things.
The big stereotypes of this performance piece (”Black / White” and “Either / Or”)
lead up to Sylvester’s lecture directly following. He’ll be inviting a dialogue from his audience
about our work ethic in this country, and we’ll be like the “appetizer” for his lecture.
Real live artists doing their thing!
The Piece:
Imagine City Hall transformed for 25 minutes with people of all
ages (you), dressed in white, sitting on picnic blankets  — some are
reading to others out of books, some are set in a tableau while one
sketches or paints their portrait on a canvas, some are reciting poetry,
dancing, some are playing music - guitar, banjo, flute. All ages engaged
in “leisure” (otherwise known as ‘life’). At the same time —
On the steps: my students are dressed as overworked “business people”
- suits with frantic bodies in them - scurrying to and fro, too busy to look up,
too busy to say hello, only “excuse me” or “move please” or “I don’t
have time”. They’re in a tempo that matches our current pace of life.
Then… something happens - something shifts. The frenzy starts to slow
down, the people in business suits begin to notice the life that’s taking
place around them, below them on the lobby floor - people eating, having
fun, engaging with one another - as community. Something happens …
(You’ll have to come see it, or be in it, to find out.)
I know many of you ARE artists, and musicians, love poetry, like to eat and
sit with friends. Please consider being VISIBLE ARITSTS in this performance piece.
If you would like to join us,  please email me back. Here, again, are the logistics:
WHAT: performance piece - Art and Leisure (you sit and read, play music, dance, eat, paint)
WHERE: City Hall Lobby, downtown Bellingham
WHEN: Tuesday, November 17th (Next week)
REHEARSAL TIME: 5:30. Please come dressed in all white/off white (shirt sleeves rolled up,
skirts, easy relaxed clothes).
PERFORMANCE TIME: 6:30 or 6:40
LECTURE TIME: 7:00
WHAT TO BRING: White/off white (a sheet will do) ‘picnic blankets’,  musical instruments,
painting easels, brushes, picnic dinners to eat - (really!), books to read aloud, juggle balls, etc.
Again - it’s important to email me so i know you’re coming, and thanks for passing this
information on to others who will, in turn email me and confirm their participation.
We do need to rehearse, but it’s not much. More FUN than rehearsal.
If you haven’t seen the “Sound of Music in Antwerp Train Station” google it.
This is sort of like that. But different. : )
Hope you can come play!
Drue
LECTURE INFORMATION:
Please join us for our first College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Community Lecture for the 2009-10 academic year.  It will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at the Bellingham City Hall Council Chambers.  We are pleased to present Dr. Charles Sylvester, Professor in the Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, who will speak on the balance between work and leisure. Please see the attached postcard for more details.

THIS TRIP IS NOW FULL! 

Vancouver Art Gallery Train Trip with Trish Harding
Monday Dec 7 2009, 8:40am-7:40pm, $65
Deadline for registration is Nov 16 2009

Scroll Down for more information and registration form.

Dawn
Sketches and Paintings by the Group of Seven
September 19, 2009 to January 17, 2010

Lawren Harris
Mountain Sketch XXXI (Moraine Lake), c. 1927
oil on paperboard
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery

The artists of the seminal Canadian landscape school the Group of Seven used the sketch as a fundamental tool in their artistic process. Sketching outdoors offered the practical means to document the landscape for later elaboration and encouraged experiments with new subjects, forms, colours and techniques. The exhibition includes oil sketches by all seven original members: Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franklin Carmichael, Francis Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley.

Congratulations Carol Weiss for attaining your signature status with the National Watercolor Society. Bellingham is very proud of you.

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Vancouver Art Gallery Train Trip with Trish Harding
Monday Dec 7 2009, 8:40am-7:40pm, $65
Deadline for registration is Nov 16 2009
There are no refunds for cancellations

Take a relaxing and beautiful train trip to the Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia with Trish Harding as your guide. We travel along the water and through some of the most beautiful country in the Pacific Northwest. We then disembark at the train station in one of the most vibrant, progressive cities in the world, cross the street and board the Vancouver Sky Train, which will take us within walking distance to the Gallery.
We will go directly to the restaurant for lunch (this is not included in the trip fee) and then into the gallery for the day. You can travel through the gallery separately or stay with the group and have discussions about the work. Remember, Vancouver Art Gallery has the most extensive collection of the work of Canada’s beloved Emily Carr right there.
We then meet at a specific time in the lobby near the Gallery store, board the Sky Train and head back to the train station and return to Bellingham truly inspired by Emily Carr, the Group of Seven, the art’s influence on Nationalism, our expanding urban environment and much, much more!
Here is what will be featured at the Gallery:
Dawn
Sketches and Paintings by the Group of SevenThe artists of the seminal Canadian landscape school the Group of Seven used the sketch as a fundamental tool in their artistic process. Sketching outdoors offered the practical means to document the landscape for later elaboration and encouraged experiments with new subjects, forms, colours and techniques. The exhibition includes oil sketches by all seven original members: Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franklin Carmichael, Francis Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley.

Lawren Harris
Mountain Sketch XXXI (Moraine Lake), c. 1927
oil on paperboard
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery
Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscapes 1860-1918

Frederic Edwin Church
Niagra Falls, from American Side, 1867
oil on canvas
The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Albert Bierstadt
Yosemite Valley, 1868
oil on canvas
Oakland Museum of California

Expanding Horizons is a rich and varied survey of a period, which forged a sense of identity that is closely tied to the landscape in both Canada and the United States. The wonders of the natural world form the subject of many of the paintings and photographs in this major exhibition, which explores the relationship between painting and photography from the time of the American Civil War to the end of the First World War in both countries.

The exhibition investigates many themes, including the emergence of ideas of nationalism, the relationship between the expanding urban environment and nature, the role of railways in expanding artistic subject matter, as well as the ways in which photography altered the practice of painting. Divided into six sections—Nature Transcendent, The Stage of History and the Theatre of Myth, Man Versus Nature, Nature Domesticated, The Urban Landscape and The Return to Nature—the exhibition examines the changing relationships to and appreciation of the natural world in both countries. The differing views of Niagara Falls, both on canvas and in photography, are but one example of this continuing evolution.

Expanding Horizons brings together for the first time works by American painters Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and Georgia O’Keeffe and their Canadian counterparts Otto Jacobi, David Milne, A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr and Lucius O’Brien, among many others. Together with photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Henderson, William Notman and Benjamin Baltzly, these artists helped to shape our understanding of the North American landscape and our place within it.

Trip includes:
· Round Trip Train Fair from Bellingham to Vancouver via Amtrak
· Vancouver Art Gallery entrance fee
· Group discussions regarding the work
· Great travel companions and conversation
· New friends in art

Requirements for trip to reserve a space:
· Current & Valid Passport, including citizenship, birth date and birth place
· Registration form and $65 fee by November 16, 2009

Tips for traveling to Canada:
· You can park across the street from the Bham train station for the day or take a cab. Share a ride.
· Use a credit or debit card for large purchases as the exchange is automatically calculated for you.
· Do not forget your passport (you will be asked to show passport at the terminal before boarding train and will not be able to travel without it)
· Be prepared to fill out customs report which is provided during your trip
· Have a minimum of $3 Canadian currency on you for the Sky Train (this is not included in fee)
· Be prepared to walk a few blocks in inclimate weather
· Travel light but warm
· Be at the terminal one hour before departure…8:40am

Departure Destination Arrival
9:40am Vancouver, BC 11:40am
5:40pm Bellingham, WA 7:40pm

Life is all about experience and is experienced over and over through memories. If this is an experience that interests you, come with us!

Peace,
Trish

The supplies list has been sent out so if you haven’t received it and HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE WORKSHOP here it is again. See you on 11/20 at 10am. Be kind and be on time.

Oil Painting Basics Workshop at Studio UFO

Oil Painting Basics Workshop, Trish Harding instructor
· Beginning, beginning Oil Painting Class
· Learn what oil paint is and the qualities of each pigment family
· Understand brushes and what different types are used for
· Learn what surfaces, grounds and under-paintings are
· This class will be followed by another class of the series in the future
· Lunch break 12-1pm, Bring a lunch or plan to eat out
· Specific supplies list will be emailed upon receipt of registration
· Registration deadline is Friday Nov. 6th (Registration means a filled out Nov. registration form and $60 fee).
One-5 hr session, Friday, 11/20, 10am-3pm, $60

Supply list:

Paints: bring all that you have but at least the following or their equivalent, (i.e. cadmium yellow light can replace hansa yellow).
· Primary colors: alizarin crimson, hansa yellow, phthalo blue
· Secondary colors: cadmium red light, phthalo green, ultramarine violet
· Earths: burnt umber, sienna, yellow ochre
· White: Titanium or Zinc
· You will not need black

Brushes: bring what you have but you will need at least two of a similar size as below:
· one ½ inch flat or filbert long bristles
· one ¼ inch flat or filbert long bristles

Other:
· Odorless mineral spirits with container
· Paper towels
· Easel (I have a few in the studio that you can use if you make prior arrangements)
· Palette (I use paper plates)
· baby wipes, optional

Surface:
· 4 pieces gessoed scrap mat board or gessoed paper (for exercises. Does not need to be expensive or fancy and no smaller than 11”x 14’ish).
· We will be focused on exercises not a finished painting in this workshop.

Optional; I use a specific Color Wheel in all of my classes at Studio UFO, Whatcom Community College and Creative Arts Community. I will have them available for $5 each at class.