Classes and Workshops
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Narrative Art 2025: Intro to Children's Book Illustration for Adults- Wednesday nights: Jan 8,15,22,29, Febuary 5, 12, 19 and March 5th 5-7
During this eight session course we will network and build our knowledge of book and page design for children’s book illustration. Touching on basics of :page turns, layout, drawing, composition, character development, thumbnails, movement, publishing, portfolios and more.
Each workshop session will start with a lesson and discussion, move into work time, and often end with mini critiques and the sharing of ideas. Each person will be working on finishing at least one three or four panel illustrative narrative. Students have an opportunity to enter their finished narratives in Dragon Arts first Narrative Art Competition and Show.
Basic materials will be available during all the classes, but artists are welcome to bring their own mediums if they prefer.
Each workshop session will start with a lesson and discussion, move into work time, and often end with mini critiques and the sharing of ideas. Each person will be working on finishing at least one three or four panel illustrative narrative. Students have an opportunity to enter their finished narratives in Dragon Arts first Narrative Art Competition and Show.
Basic materials will be available during all the classes, but artists are welcome to bring their own mediums if they prefer.
In this three day workshop you will explore the basics of creating a picture with pastels. Pastels are one of Kassy’s favorite mediums. She started working in pastels 35 years ago, when Bozo the Clown hired her to do a portrait of him, in California. She may not have made it through college without the occasional portrait commission. Her love for the medium was refreshed when she was able to take a pastel class from Mark Braught ( the original illustrator for Harry Potter) at Hollins University. Pastels are now one of her three favorite mediums that she uses for children’s book illustration. In this pastel class you will create art using techniques she uses to create her award wining pictures. She will walk you through the process of creating a picture and teach you some tricks of the medium. All materials for this three session class will be included.
We get together once a month to work on our art Journals. Contact Jo at Beaux Arts fine Art Materials in Florence. Oregon to find out this months date and for more information about the cost and availability. Each workshop consists of space to work and a new limited addition stencil designed by Kassy.
Learn to weave on an inkle loom. In this club we will be meeting monthly to weave. Come learn basic skills for creating beautiful fabrics, from setting your warp, to creating patterns. Continue to come each month and participate in the strip of the month club and learning to make belts, bags, lanyards, and other items. We have a few loaner looms for people to start on and basic threads and materials are available until they run out. Contact the Oregon Coast School Of Art for dates, times, and cost.
Draw together The Elements of Art Studio Tour And Registry
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Annual Narative Art Show and Competition-
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Dragon Art will be hosts a Narrative Art Show and Competition at the Florence Event Center in June. The show will consists of a series of three or four paneled narrative pictures that tell a story in a sequence without words. More information about how to register for this years art show will be comming.
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Printmaking-THis Class will be scheduled soon
Kassy had done very little printmaking until she had the opportunity to take classes from Ashley Wolfe (the author/illustrator of many children's books including Miss. Bindergarten and the Little Bear Series ) at Hollins University. Now it is one of Kassy's three favorite mediums.
