{"id":13653,"date":"2022-08-29T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=13653"},"modified":"2022-09-07T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:07:40","slug":"teaching-at-sitka-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=13653","title":{"rendered":"Teaching at Sitka: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had the privilege of teaching two classes at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology<\/span><\/a>. The first, June 30-July 3, was in the smaller of the two studios at Sitka, Smith, and with ten students, it was the perfect space.<\/p>\n

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I taught two classes at Sitka, the first class was in the smaller, lower studio and the second class was in the spectacular upper studio, Boyden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because I was teaching two classes and they were back-to-back (I had the 4th of July off between the two classes), I got to stay at Morley House, which was a first for me. I loved this space!<\/p>\n

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This is where I got to stay for ten days: Morley House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now to the good stuff. The class. I could babble on about it, but instead I’m going to share photos – a fraction of the photos I took, but it gives a good look into our four days of art making. The group was talented, energetic, spirited, and hard workers — and they wanted to know if they could sign up for my 2023 class on the final day!<\/p>\n

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Brand new overalls! Soft fabric . . . and WHITE. I’m ready.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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How I set up the oil paints I bring for the class to use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A demo board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Picking up supplies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pink+handmade holey paper = beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Making room for a beautiful ring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Just a beautiful blob of paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An old wallpaper roller I bought at a flea market in Europe years ago was a huge hit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All the colors!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Working, working, working.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blotting with tissue paper, lifting paint, and moving paint around.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spreading and scraping paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mixing oil paint with cold wax medium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Such a strong use of color!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another lover of color!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carol experimenting with using a solvent to create drips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A lovely example of a grid composition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Regina and Liz confer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beautiful swaths of color.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jill contemplates her next move.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My favorite stencil: circles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Colorful, powerful, and fascinating example of a grid composition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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R&F Pigment Sticks – making a monoprint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Selecting pigment sticks to try out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A beautiful, finished painting. Carol started this one in a class with me a few years ago, brought it with her, and brought it to a beautiful finish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Work in progress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Encouraging and supporting each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Experimenting with drips!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I love the variety of color and marks in this series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is a monoprint of the original oil and cold wax painting (Marc let me have the monoprint and it is hanging in my studio).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking in . . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A beautiful series of magical marks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paintings drying in the courtyard,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mini abstracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ripping off tape to reveal small beauties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Final day show and tell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then I rested.<\/p>\n

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I had the privilege of teaching two classes at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. The first, June 30-July 3, was in the smaller of the two studios at Sitka, Smith, and with ten students, it was the perfect space. Because I was teaching two classes and they were back-to-back (I had the 4th of … Continue reading Teaching at Sitka: Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,548,13,48,139,642,107,6,65,608,59,15,315,677,507,508,674,562,403,549,239,407,559,558,569,297,512,593,607,247,292,393,619,38,289,226,465,576,551,130,228,321,509,20,560,1,561,241],"tags":[83,514,516,678,66,610,679,406,556,555,609,17,256,466,636,463,295,566],"class_list":["post-13653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-art","category-abstract-artist","category-abstract-landscapes","category-abstract-painting","category-abstracted-play","category-art-everyday","category-art-studio","category-art-work","category-art-workshops","category-artist-on-instagram","category-beneath-the-surface","category-carnival-of-landscapes","category-cold-wax-medium","category-cold-wax-painting","category-color-field-art","category-color-field-artist","category-color-the-language-of-dreams","category-colorful-art","category-contemporary-art","category-contemporary-artist","category-creativity","category-daily-painting","category-dayna-collins","category-dayna-collins-art","category-dayna-collins-artist","category-dayna-j-collins","category-gamblin","category-interior-design","category-intuitive-artist","category-mark-making","category-mixed-media","category-mixed-media-art","category-mixed-media-artist","category-oil-and-cold-wax-2","category-oil-and-cold-wax-painting","category-oil-pigment-sticks","category-oregon-artist","category-original-art","category-pacific-northwest-artist","category-painting-studio","category-r-and-f-pigment-sticks","category-sitka-center-for-art-and-ecology","category-surface-design","category-teaching","category-turns-of-the-kaleidoscope","category-uncategorized","category-wild-color","category-zines","tag-abstract-art","tag-abstract-artist","tag-abstract-painter","tag-art-instructor","tag-art-workshops","tag-artist-on-instagram","tag-contemporary","tag-contemporary-art","tag-dayna-collins-art","tag-dayna-collins-artist","tag-intuitive-painter","tag-oil-and-cold-wax","tag-oil-and-cold-wax-painting","tag-oregon-artist","tag-pacific-northwest-artist","tag-rf-pigment-sticks","tag-sitka-center-for-art-and-ecology","tag-wild-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13766,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions\/13766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}