The Artworks Gallery offers a series Jewelry Making Workshops for six weeks with Roberta Nelson on Fridays, starting April 5 to May 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. The workshops will be held at the Artworks Gallery, 109 Fall Street in downtown Seneca Falls.
This is a series of six weekly classes is intended for those who would like to begin creating their own jewelry or those who want to refresh or increase their skills. Roberta explains, “It encompasses the study of design fundamentals and forming techniques using both polymer clay and laminated paper to create various pieces of jewelry.”
Participants need to bring for the first class, only a pencil, eraser, and drawing pad will be necessary. Materials for the coming classes will be discussed then.
Cost is $10 per week. Registration is required. Contact the instructor by March 30 at 315-549-8323 or email rnelson33@rochester.rr.com.
Date: 4/27/24 Saturday
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $40
Location: Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall St., Seneca Falls, NY
Registration Cut-off Date: 4/20/24
Workshop Description: Striking contrast drawings are created by breaking a drawing into positive and negative space and shading them with only white and black colored pencils. An abstract design is cut out of black paper and glued onto a white illustration board. The selected drawing for the project is then transferred onto the illustration board. All of the shadows in the positive or white areas of the drawing are shaded in with a black pencil while the highlights remain the white of the paper. All of the highlights in the negative or black areas of the drawing are shaded with a white colored pencil while the shadows remain the black of the paper.
Materials Provided by the Participant: sketch pad, regular pencil, a black colored pencil, a white colored pencil, an eraser, a hard surface to be used as a cutting board, an exacto knife, a scissors, glue, and a regular pencil .
Contact: Register with the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com or call 315-549-8323
Date: 5/4/24 Saturday
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $40
Location: Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall St., Seneca Falls, NY
Registration Cut-off Date: 4/30/24
Workshop Description:
Learn the basics of painting spring landscapes by applying various composition principles, watercolor techniques, types of landscape compositions, aerial perspective, and the use of value masses, light, ground shadows, tree forms, and cloud formations.
Materials Provided by the Participant:
watercolors paints (if using tube paints, do not use paints that say tints), brushes, 140lb. wt. watercolor paper, board larger than the paper size for stretching the paper, tape, paper towels, water container, and a photo of scene to be painted.
Materials Provided by the Instructor: Information sheets and landscape photos
Contact: Register with the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com or call 315-549-8323
Date: 5/9/24 Thursday
Time: 1pm-3pm
Cost: $20
Location: Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall St., Seneca Falls, NY
Registration Cut-off Date: 5/4/24
Workshop Description:
The focus of the workshop is how to mix colors, use chroma to increase or decrease color strength, and use value to create color contrasts to create 3-D effects.
Materials Provided by the Participant:
drawing paper or pad, set of colored pencils including white and black (Prismacolor brand recommended), eraser, pencil sharpener, and a regular pencil.
Materials Provided by the Instructor: information and exercise sheets..
Contact: Register with the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com or call 315-549-8323
Date: 5/16/24 Thursday
Time: 1pm-3pm
Cost: $20
Location: Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall St., Seneca Falls, NY
Registration Cut-off Date: 5/9/24
Workshop Description:
Wooden geometric shapes are used as the basis for the jewelry. The shapes are painted with metallic acrylic paints, pattern paper is glued onto the shapes, and 3-D paint is used to create linear points of interest.
Materials Provided by the Participant:
Elmer’s glue, glue brush, Exacto knife, cutting board, and patterned paper, or photos.
Materials Provided by the Instructor:
wooden shapes, acrylic and 3-D paint, and jewelry findings.
Contact: Register with the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com or call 315-549-8323
Date: 5/18/24 Saturday
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $40
Location: Art Works Gallery, 109 Fall St., Seneca Falls, NY
Registration Cut-off Date: 5/11/24
Workshop Description:
Layered paper drawing is technique that breaks a drawing down into a selected number of colors. All shapes that are the same color are drawn onto the same sheet of paper and then are cut out. (If there are 4 colors, 4 different color sheets will be used.) The sheets are then glued together beginning with the background color and working forward to the foreground color. Once the glue is dry, the shapes are shaded with colored pencils to create 3-D effects.
Materials Provided by the Participant:
9”x 12” or 12”x 16” sheets of construction paper in the desired colors, scissors, exacto knife, cutting board, glue, and colored pencils. (Prismacolor Color Pencils are recommended.) Bring photographs to use for ideas, if desired.
Materials Provided by the Instructor:
information sheets, tracing paper
Contact: Register with the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com or call 315-549-8323