Date & Time
June 15, 2008
2.00 PM

Tickets FREE

 Location
North Shore Open Space Park
Collins Avenue and 81st Street
Miami Beach

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The Figure Network Workshops

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Guest Artist: Miles Laventhall

Attention: Beginning & Experienced Artists!

This 1 1/2 - 2hr. lecture/demo is an educational workshop about various types of pigments, viscosity, types of paints, unusual gels, mediums, grounds and varnishes. Valuable info about paint quality, creating smooth saturated color, watercolor and oil-like surfaces, unique textures and mixed media materials will be introduced and demonstrated. Learn about clean color mixing of transparent and opaque pigment, and many creative possibilities, using cutting edge acrylics and watermedia. Free samples and hand painted color charts are available for all registered participants.

Sponsored by: Utrecht
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm
Place: 6250 So. Dixie Highway, Miami, FL 33143
Pre-registration by June 20, 2008
Contact: Regina at 305-740-7077

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTING MATERIALS

Glenn Brill, Artist Representative for Gamblin Artist’s Colors, will present a practical, hands-on educational presentation on Gamblin Oil Colors. This 90 minute presentation will cover all aspects of oil paints, mediums and varnishes, including:
Color Theory and Practical Color Mixing
Navigating Color Space
Mineral vs. Modern Pigments
Understanding Color Names
Oil Paint Manufacturing
Professional Grade Oil Paint vs. Student Grade Oil Paint
Mediums and Varnishes
Indirect vs. Direct Painting Techniques
Supports, Sizing and Grounds
Studio Safety

The goal of the presentation is not only to educate participants on oil paints but to provide information that will enable attendees to create their own personalized palette. All attendees will receive FREE Gamblin Product & Literature Samples. All attending instructors will receive the Gamblin DVD, Navigating Color Space.

About the Presenter:
Glenn Brill has presented over 100 educational presentations throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Currently an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University, Glenn has also taught at California
College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and University of California @ Hayward. Glenn has been involved in art material product development and education for over 15 years. He has worked for some of the premier art material companies as Director of Education, helping to develop and test oil and acrylic paints, brushes, canvas, paper, and drawing materials. Glenn has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowships, Author of “Beyond the Brush” and co-author of “The Acrylic Handbook”. His artworks are in the permanent collections of the Archives of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, San Jose Museum and Phoenix Art Museum. Glenn holds
a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a Tamarind Master Printer.

 Saturday May 24th 10am to 12:30pm

On Saturday April 12th and Sunday April 13th we are going to have a Sidewalk Clearance event!  Clearance items are 40% to 70% off our regular prices.  This is a pretty sweet deal!

We have:

Portfolios, brushes, Copic Markers, Prismacolor Markers, Notebooks, Note Cards, Printmaking paper, Streatched canvas, Framing supplies,  and so much more!

 For even more marked down Clearance items in our warehouse check out the link below:

http://www.utrechtart.com/dsp_view_clearance.cfm

What are you interested in learning? What excites you?

We are planning our next batch of Demo’s for the month of May.  We have some new classes on Sundays:
Oil painting- Fausto Nunez teaches landscape painting, $55 per class and supplies will be 10% off.
During the week we are planning some kids classes- 3-d collage with Diana & Maria Monroy. Their schedule will be sent out shortly.

On Saturdays we are planning more Plastilina demos (this time we will be making animals), Oil painting demos and acrylic painting demos.

If there is anything else that you would be interested in learning how to use please let us know.  The more feedback we getm the better we can serve you.

In the past we’ve had: Color theory with gouche, Using coloraid, Screenprinting, and Relief printing Linolium with Linolium.