Month: January 2014

Colored Pencils
RITA PARADIS

Friday, November 15th 10am – 3pm 

Limited to 10 students Adults
Tuition: $50 Materials Fee: $2
Rita continues her class series in using Prismacolor Colored Pencils to help you create
beautiful paintings using these pencils.
Bring all your colored pencils along with the following:
 Light grey – “Col-Erase” pencil – also made by Prismacolor (sold open-stock at
Jerry’s; but you can borrow another student’s if you don’t have one since its use
is only for the initial sketching)
 Drawing pencil – 2B
 Kneaded eraser
 Pencil sharpener – preferably a portable, battery sharpener with a cylindrical
sharpening blade
 Bring a bag lunch (for our break)!
If you are a beginner or are unsure of what subject you want to draw, Rita supplies
paper and a resource print of prior student subjects for $2.
If you are ready to do your own subject, choose a photo with good contrast lighting
that provides interesting shadows and good “edges” (since you will need to trace it).
Print it out so the subject is the same size you want to draw it – usually 5×7 or so. Also
bring any Bristol paper and Vellum tracing paper, if you have it.

We need a minimum of 5 students. Please call Bonnie at 860-267-4584 to save your
spot prior to mailing in your registration form and check.

Throughout the Winter, Dean Waite’s Open Studio will continue on Thursdays. We are have started a “Wednesdays at Two” drop-in 2-hour studio. In order to schedule future classes and open studios, the Arts Center needs to know your interest in the following…

Felted Characters – one-day class – Kristen Walsh
Colored Pencil (various levels) – one-day class – Rita Paradis
Introduction to Pastels – one-day class – teacher pending
Polymer Clay Jewelry – one-evening class – Kristie Foss
Wire-wrapped Jewelry – one-evening class – teacher pending
Introduction to Digital Photography – one-day class – teacher pending
Chocolate Candy Holiday Centerpieces (Seasonal) – one-evening class – Sue Hollister
Fused Glass – one-evening class – Robin Simpson
Extreme Origami – one-evening class – Ben Parker
Introduction to Photoshop – time and teacher to be determined
Watercolor Painting – 6-week series of one-evening classes – Audrey Carroll Prucnal
Contemporary Hand-built Pottery – time and teacher info pending
Calligraphy – teacher pending
Free Motion Quilting – teacher pending
Acrylics for Children ages 8 and above – 4-week series of Saturday classes – Marcia Letourneau
Figure Study Open Studio – time and teacher to be determined
Mommy and Me Projects- 4-week series of seasonal one-hour classes – teacher pending
Pottery for Children ages 8 and above- time and teacher to be determined
Open Studio: Media of Choice – either during the day or evenings – no teacher; students will mentor each other

…and any others that you have interest in.

So, please email the Class Coordinator (bonniedesa@gmail.com) to let us know what you’d like to do. And if you have a group of friends, we can create a class with a minimum of 5 students.

The Marlborough Arts Center’s class in Acrylic Painting for Children, taught by Marcia Letourneau, well-known artist and author of “Magic Rabbit of Green Hill”, has had another very successful group of students who made a You Tube video about their art.

The young art students are Ayden Michaud of Colchester, Ben Moorcroft of Hebron, and Alec Wallman of Marlborough. Their enthusiasm for the class is evident. The Arts Center is pleased to have classes particularly for children and it is obvious that the children are pleased to have art classes here.

Pictured: Jim gets his award as his grandson looks on. Bob Desnaulier with his picture.

Two members of the Arts Center won awards at the reception for the Clinton Art Society’s Summer Exhibition. Jim Grabowski won the Hammocks. LLC award for his abstract acrylic painting, “Dreaming”. Bob Desaulnier won the “Techniques Printers award for his watercolor and gouache painting “Thimble Island Stairway”.