Summer Artist Series Excitement and Acrylics Spring Session Review

Artist Series -Acrylics Spring Session...
came to a close last week. Emily Leonard taught our Tuesday night Acrylics class. It was a great success. Students focused on a famous painter and worked with their images to figure out the master's technique and discover their our individual style. Challenging themselves with this project gave each student confidence on how they view the world with their eyes and how it all conveys down to the brush on paper.

Emily returns to teach a fabulous ArtEscape! Weekend over the first weekend in August at Fort Williams. Students start with a thorough introduction to the tools and materials and will play with the basic elements of line, form, color, and composition in an amazing outdoor setting. You will meet at Fort Williams Friday, Saturday and Sunday for a spectacular weekend of painting for both the experienced painter and a budding artist! Follow the link to learn more. http://www.artascope.com/artescape.htm

Summer Sessions Start Next Week

If you are itching to play with your paints and can't wait till August, then join Liz Prescott every Wednesday from 9-noon for our Summer Artist Series-Acrylics Course starting July 9th . She is a fantastic teacher and an established painter and craftsman herself, so get curious about your desire to paint and join the group. It's definitely a favorite around here, so sign up while there is still space.

Have you checked out the summer schedule for Summer Artist Series? We have one for each morning!! Mondays will be Decorative Painting with Libby Barrett, AND we will be bringing back an old favorite, Metalsmithing,with a brand new teacher, Christina Taylor! Tuesdays we will be Sewing with Diane Brakeley. Wednesdays....Acrylics. Thursdays we will be playing with Stained Glass with Gayle Raposa. And we will end the week with Suzanne Kiertianis' Sewn Beading Jewelry Session. All classes meet for 6 weeks from 10am-1pm except for Acrylics from 9-noon. The class cost is &175 for the 6 week session. Peeked your interest???? http://www.artascope.com/artistseries.htm

Benefit Yard Sale for Local Crisis Ministries Fund and Betina Clark's Opening

The Art Studios at Cottage Road's Benefit Yard Sale for the Local Crisis Ministries Fund was a huge success and started our Second Saturday festivities with a real bang. We transformed our lawn into a treasure chest of household goodies, art and craft supplies and fun items donated from our generous group of stewards, teachers, members and staff. Here's a cute pic of one of our lucky customers showing off her new books.

This was our second annual benefit yard sale for the Local Crisis Ministries Fund. We are very excited to report that we were able to raise a nice amount of money from all our local shoppers. We even had some donations made from folks just wondering by. For all our community support, we are grateful. Check out Pat relaxing in the sun with her favorite martini glasses.....hope she didn't sell those.....they are keepers for sure!

Betina Clark's Art Opening
Each month, The Art Studios at Cottage Road honor one of our stewards, teachers and members as our featured artist. Betina Clark, a very popular silver metalsmith, was our featured artist for the month of June. Her opening coincided with our busy Saturday morning yard sale. Needless to say, things were hoping all day. Betina was there to meet with guests and talk about her work. We had a busy night of traffic coming to check out Betina's new creations and spend some time one on one with the artist. You can see more about Betina by clicking on her link under "links we love" to the right of this blog.