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For those who are interested in private lessons, I usually teach 1 hour a week or every other week at my home. All supplies are included accept the board which is $12 (Students will slowly buy their own supplies).
After a few icons the student will learn to make their own boards and can bring in a piece of 9 x 12” wood tat that time. All the other supplies I will supply. Lessons are $40 an hour.
There will be both drawing and painting in the lessons for the first year as well as homework. Everyone is asked to buy a 11 x 14” mixed medium sketchbook to bring to class and take home.
After the student can paint longer on their own they can have longer lessons, most ask for 2 hour lessons. Usually takes about a year.
I’ll start to offer ‘Open Saturdays’ now and again as I build up more students. That is where anyone who can paint on their own, but would like to paint for a stretch of time with me there, can come from 11 to 2pm. That is $ 10 an hour.
Starting in September 2023, Many Years Farm will offer classes/events once a month to bring people together for fellowship and learning. We love sharing our farm with others so people can forget their cares and soak in the beauty around them while they do something enjoyable. Visit with the baby goats, turkeys, and chicks. Sit on one of our many porches, sip tea or wine, and enjoy the evening bonfire
Classes will vary in cost and length but will generally be an afternoon event.
The first class will be a scenic/still life painting exercise in egg tempera, held on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. The class includes all supplies for painting (several brushes, pencils, erasers, pallets and paints–you will borrow my things–I have loads!) and a 9 x 12” board (which will not be borrowed, that’s yours to keep). I’ll give a short lesson on how to use egg tempera and how to set up your painting, then you are free to paint what you like–cows in the field, a red barn, flowers, chickens scratching, goats jumping, mountains in the distance, and so forth. If you need more instruction, you can paint with me. We will paint for 3 hours, then take a break, have dinner and finally have dessert by the bonfire. The class will start around 2 p.m. and dinner will be around 6 p.m. Bonfire, dessert and drinks follow dinner. Cost $125 per person.
Other classes and events being planned:
The Illuminated letter. Make an illuminated letter out of egg tempera and gold–art from the middle ages to take home and frame.
A demonstration on how to make paint. We will look at 3 different mediums (that make paint) and some of the surprising natural pigments they are made from. Students will partake in smashing, grinding, mixing- rocks, bugs and clays with oils, eggs and waxes. Great for adults and kids (and Sunday school) I get everyone out of their seats.
High Tea. Bring your grand hat and we’ll have a prize for the greatest hat!
A sumptuous cooking class; a night of cooking and eating!
How to roast coffee and prepare it (lots of different ways . . .)
How to make mead: a demonstration
Soap making. Will ask each person to bring some supplies.
Cheese making: a demonstration
Bread making: a demonstration
The Saint Nicholas Intensive Iconography course will be early Oct/ Nov. I’ll send out a flier for that.
Got an idea, or would like to teach a class at our farm? Let me know!
People may want to stay at a nearby bed and breakfast so you won’t need to drive home so late. I will try to reserve a place nearby if we have enough people.
Karen Ward completed her Certificate in Painting and Drawing from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC in 2009 with a focus on landscape painting. She is currently working on her Masters of Arts through the St. Stephan’s MA Program at the Antiochian Village located in Ligonier PA. Her paintings have been exhibited in juried local and national shows in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, and she has been represented in various galleries in Virginia. Karen has taught drawing and painting classes for the past twelve years. Many of her students have gone on to exhibit and sell their works in juried shows and in galleries around the area.
For more on Karen visit www.MANDORLA-ARTS.COM
Now accepting commission for icons, she spends her time painting icons and teaching art classes.
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