Moonwalk into the new decade to your favorite 80’s songs this New Years Eve! The Taps kitchen (regular menu) will close at 8pm and at 9pm we will be serving up themed snacks to keep your party stamina up! Far out treats from cheeseballs and pigs in a blanket to classic favorites like long island iced teas and jello shots will make you nostalgic for Pac Man, Bon Jovi, perms, neon & more this New Years Eve! Look for totally tubular decor, a righteous streaming of the Times Square NYE Special, firepits all aglow and a totally radical 80’s playlist.

Guests are encouraged to come dressed in their 80’s BEST and compete for a surprise give-away…bonus points for scrunchies, ripped jeans, spandex and mullets – COWABUNGA – see you there!  $5 cover per person at the door includes snacks & a champagne toast at midnight.

A day for mindful movement, ceremony, meditation, creativity, poetry … and clarity

Arrive for contemplative mindfulness to the sounds of crystal bowls before our opening ceremony, intention setting and poetry. We’ll enjoy guided movement as meditation before our creative studio time. With your intentions as a guide, paint or write your vision through journaling, collaging, painting and/or poetry. We will also stretch, rest, meditate and enjoy a mindful community. Our afternoon will conclude with gentle restorative yoga to embody our intentions, final meditation and closing ceremony.

9:00 Arrive for contemplative mindfulness to the sounds of crystal bowls
9:15 Opening ceremony, intention sharing and poetry
10:00 Guided movement as meditation
11:00 With your intentions as a guide, paint or write your vision through journaling, collaging, painting and/or poetry. We will also stretch, rest, meditate and enjoy mindful community
1:00 Gentle restorative yoga to embody our intentions
2:00 Final meditation and closing ceremony

Facilitators: Aletia Alvarez, Renee Klein and Glo Lamson

Fee: $60 Early Bird – by December 15; $75 Regular Registration

Find us at the Seattle Wedding Show at Booth #120 the first weekend in January. Our friendly Sales staff & Events team will be there to answer questions about the planning process, catering, venue & accommodation options. For a super unique experience, ask us about Glamping at Fort Worden, launching Summer 2020.

We hope to see you there!

TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 11, 5-8 PM

Picture yourself making that picture book! Maybe you’ve had a great idea in your head forever and want to move forward. If so, we will march step by step through the process of character development to story, right up to your own dummy, ready for submission!*

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun.

Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work. Plus, that kick in the back cover you may have been needing. AGES 16+

Required Supplies:

• Ream of copy paper

• Pad of “Mixed Media” paper, 9”x12”

• Pencils • Pencil sharpener

• Fine tip sharpies or other black markers

• One regular black Sharpie (fat, but not poster size)

• Watercolor set (cheap kid type is fine)

• Two watercolor brushes, one medium, one big and fat

• Cheap sketch pad, 5.5” x 8.5” or so

• Small bottle of india ink (waterproof)

• Something to tote all of the above in, so you can bring EVERYTHING to EVERY class

• Questions? email Dana at danajsullivan@comcast.net
  *actual results may vary. You’ve gotta put in the work.

ABOUT DANA

Dana has written and illustrated a bunch of published picture books, including Ozzie and the Art Contest, Kay Kay’s Alphabet Safari, My Red Velvet Cape, and Family Farm. He’s illustrated the Digger and Daisy early readers and the BodyOpolis series. His first graphic novel, Dead Max Comix , launches January 23 at the PTSA Grover Gallery (!) and he is currently behind schedule on Dead Max 3: Bully for You. Dana’s favorite color is dog and his favorite vegetable is peanut butter.

CLICK HERE FOR DANA SULLIVAN’S WEBSITE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9I7Ggq3tNJmSKV7G9Jlco-kCVtKyYMSo

Rainshadow Recording is pleased to welcome back Sway Wild, featuring Mandy Fer, Dave McGraw, and Thom Lord, with their wonderful new album in tow!

Sway Wild’s songs navigate the corners of rock, folk, pop, jazz, prog, and funk. At its nucleus, it is music saturated in gratitude for well-lived lives and sympathetic to our shared humanity. McGraw says, “We want to make music that allows people to feel what they need to feel.” Fer and McGraw’s gorgeous harmonies paired with moving lyrics serve to both process and share their jubilation, grief, and frustration with a complex and deeply imperfect society.

Perhaps most remarkable is Fer’s astonishing electric guitar work. Using her beloved Fender Stratocaster for both lead guitar pyrotechnics and chordal rhythms, often at the same time, Fer challenges the listener to comprehend how she manages to extract so much feeling from six strings and an amplifier. With this album, laden with Fer’s potent electric guitar solos, she has decisively placed herself within the vanguard of female guitarists claiming their rightful place in an artistic pantheon that has historically been dominated by men. McGraw and Lord, who met as wildlife biologists studying endangered California condors in the Grand Canyon, provide unwavering support for Fer’s formidable musicianship.

Sway Wild was recorded in Portland, Oregon at The Hallowed Halls, a historic Carnegie Library, by engineer Justin Phelps (Cake, Galactic, Bob Weir), whose expertise at the helm is tangible in the warmth and presence of the finished product. An impressive cadre of the band’s friends and heroes brings the songs to their full, frenzied potential. Birds of Chicago and Sean Hayes provide guest vocals, members of MarchFourth add the irresistible energy of a full horn section, and cellists Skip VonKuske (Portland Cello Project) and Anna Fritz, along with Anna Tivel on violin, contribute the brooding dynamism of bowed strings.

For Fer and McGraw, the sailing expedition served as a kind of sabbatical from seven years of heavy international touring, sharing stages with the likes of Iron & Wine, Gregory Alan Isakov, and Mandolin Orange. The days on the boat were filled reading books in quiet green coves, watching humpback whales and black bears for hours on end, and talking over simple dinners of freshly baked bread and fish caught from a creaky plastic rowboat. Inspired by their journey, the three former band mates returned to their pastoral island and took to playing music in Fer and McGraw’s living room, with no aspirations other than to enjoy the process of creation.

In the ensuing months, Fer and McGraw departed from their well-established acoustic approach in almost shocking fashion, each returning to the instruments on which they began their respective musical trajectories as teenagers. With Fer refocused on electric guitar, McGraw behind a drum kit for the first time in over a decade, and Lord on electric bass, the trio allowed themselves to rediscover everything they loved about making music. This soon gave birth to a creative torrent of new songs, and the trio emerged as a fully formed band, organically and unexpectedly, with a sound transformed. With a fresh sense of purpose, the new material was honed on tours across the U.S. and in Europe, performing alongside band favorites Lake Street Dive, Charlie Hunter Trio and others.

The name Sway Wild evokes a specific feeling. From the beginning, Fer, McGraw, and Lord intended this band, and this album, to reflect what the endeavor felt like to them: a pathway to the uninhibited unfiltered core that we all possess. The words themselves are an invitation, if not a command, to seek out this untainted part of ourselves. In many ways, Sway Wild’s music is the product of truly wild places, and, like ribbons of light piercing a dark green canopy overhead; it can help us find the wildness that is unquestionably still within us.

I’ve been approached by many folks who say they would like to learn how to paint in oils, but are stymied by the cost of materials, worry about toxicity and are intimidated by “how much there is to learn”.

This is a class for absolute beginners who want to take the leap. Materials will be provided so you don’t have to sink $300-$400 at the outset. In this class we will be working absolutely non-toxically. The first session will discuss pigments and mediums (toxic and otherwise), how to lay out your palette, the different styles of brushes and palette knives, what kind of marks they make, and how to clean them non-toxically. Different painting surfaces will be discussed, priming with gesso and how to tone your painting surface. (We will be working on supplied canvas panels). The subsequent three sessions will be devoted to working on your own paintings. Subject matter will be provided. One, two or even three paintings could be completed depending on the speed of the painter.

Materials fee: $30 (cash or check, payable to Chris Witkowski at the start of the first class.

Presented by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center

Admission: $5
(students & teachers FREE)
FREE admission for Octopus and Orca Donor Circle Members
Become a member today!

John Calambokidis
Cascadia Research

John Calambokidis is a Research Biologist and one of the founders of Cascadia Research, a non-profit research organization formed in 1979 based in Olympia, Washington.
He periodically (1991-2012) serves as an Adjunct Faculty at the Evergreen State College teaching a course on marine mammals.
His primary interests are the biology of marine mammals and the impacts of humans.
As a Senior Research Biologist at Cascadia Research he has served as Project Director of over 100 projects.
He has authored two books on marine mammals as well as more than 150 publications in scientific journals and technical reports.
He has conducted studies on a variety of marine mammals in the North Pacific from Central America to Alaska. He has directed long-term research on the status, movements, and underwater behavior of blue, humpback, and gray whales.
His work has been covered on shows by Discovery Channel and others and has been featured in National Geographic TV specials and a magazine article in 2009.

More info about the lecturer: http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/page/biologists-cascadia-research
Contact: calambokidis@cascadiaresearch.org

This is the fourth installment of The Future of Oceans lecture series.
This event is offered with generous support by the Darrow Family.

Assisted Listening Devices available

TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 11, 5-8 PM

Picture yourself making that picture book! Maybe you’ve had a great idea in your head forever and want to move forward. If so, we will march step by step through the process of character development to story, right up to your own dummy, ready for submission!*

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun.

Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work. Plus, that kick in the back cover you may have been needing. AGES 16+

Required Supplies:

• Ream of copy paper

• Pad of “Mixed Media” paper, 9”x12”

• Pencils • Pencil sharpener

• Fine tip sharpies or other black markers

• One regular black Sharpie (fat, but not poster size)

• Watercolor set (cheap kid type is fine)

• Two watercolor brushes, one medium, one big and fat

• Cheap sketch pad, 5.5” x 8.5” or so

• Small bottle of india ink (waterproof)

• Something to tote all of the above in, so you can bring EVERYTHING to EVERY class

• Questions? email Dana at danajsullivan@comcast.net
  *actual results may vary. You’ve gotta put in the work.

ABOUT DANA

Dana has written and illustrated a bunch of published picture books, including Ozzie and the Art Contest, Kay Kay’s Alphabet Safari, My Red Velvet Cape, and Family Farm. He’s illustrated the Digger and Daisy early readers and the BodyOpolis series. His first graphic novel, Dead Max Comix , launches January 23 at the PTSA Grover Gallery (!) and he is currently behind schedule on Dead Max 3: Bully for You. Dana’s favorite color is dog and his favorite vegetable is peanut butter.

CLICK HERE FOR DANA SULLIVAN’S WEBSITE

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM

This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you can do!

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, JANUARY 16-17, 9 AM-4 PM

In this workshop, Donna Lark will introduce you to the wet felting technique, Nuno Felting.  Students will be able to create two nuno felted scarf during the workshop.

 The Nuno Felting technique involves learning how to construct silk and wool fabric, the building block for all manner of projects from simple scarves to table runners, upholstery fabric and wall hangings.

Workshop participants will learn the history of felting and how to evaluate the quality and suitability of different silks and wools. Workshop attendees will also learn how they can continue the technique in their home.

WHAT TO BRING TO CLASS:  Participants should provide a waterproof apron, cuticle scissors, and 3-4 old towels. This is a physical process, bordering on strenuous, but anyone can do it if they pace themselves.

Instructor:
Donna Lark states “I create Nuno  Felted clothing inspired by the features of the natural world that I am attracted to on a daily basis. I love light, reflections, and colors that accompany the change of seasons. My passion comes from an old family tradition of garment making. My love of the outdoors led me to pursue degrees in Environmental Education (B.S.) and Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the University of Michigan.
Landscape Architecture is, at its core, a design process that encourages a fluid and intuitive relationship between the built environment and the natural, dynamic elements that envelope it.  At its best, a good design enhances the best qualities of both nature and structure.  In my clothing designs there is a flow of color, form, texture and structure that is not unlike the movement in a garden. I use a similar skill set that I do in designing a garden. My goal is to enhance the qualities of the structure of the human body.”

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9I7Ggq3tNJlX3g38ewRGSf0W_bZ3ZdaH

“Chuck Brodsky can sing, fingerpick, and strum with the best of ’em…a storyteller, and a riveting one at that… an underlying tone of warmth and compassion runs through all his carefully observed narratives.” -Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Chuck Brodsky is a storyteller, songwriter, troubadour, and a modern day bard. With only his acoustic guitar and his voice he’ll draw you in with genuine, down-to-earth warmth and his quirky, finely crafted songs. Using wit and irony, set to haunting melodies, he tells the stories of oddball and underdog characters through his syncopated guitar strumming or sweet finger-picking. His songs celebrate the goodness in people—the eccentric, holy, profound, courageous, inspiring, and the beautiful. They poke fun at what needs to be poked, and sometimes they challenge. They’re sworn to tell the truth.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, a very young Chuck fell in love with the piano. Despite taking lessons, he still managed to teach himself how to play. Years later, on his first day of university orientation, he saw two guys playing guitars. He soon got one of his own, transferred out of the university and into the school of life. Influenced by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Lowell George, John Hartford, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Greg Brown, The Rolling Stones, and Nic Jones, Chuck started writing songs in a style that is very much his own, yet pays homage to the traditions.

After hitchhiking to San Francisco and singing weekly at the Tattoo Rose Cafe’s open mic, Chuck spent a few years singing for tips on the streets of Europe, and worked as a fruit picker back in the USA. In the late 1980’s, he began performing in small coffeehouses around the San Francisco Bay Area. Winning the “Emerging Songwriter Award” at the Napa Valley Folk Festival in 1992, the following year he was warmly embraced at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. For the past 23 years, Chuck has performed at festivals and in concerts all across the USA, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, England, Israel, Lithuania, Latvia, Wales, and the Shetland Islands of Scotland.

Since 1995, each of his ten albums has been critically acclaimed; most recently his 2013 release The Baseball Ballads 2, which was named to MOJO Magazine’s top ten list of Folk albums for 2014. Four of his early cds were produced in Atlanta by Kristian Bush of Sugarland, while his most recent four studio recordings were produced in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, by J.P. Cormier. His March 2015 release, Tell Tale Heart, is self-produced and was recorded in Asheville NC.

Chuck’s passion for our National Pastime and its colorful, offbeat characters is evident in his two albums full of Baseball tales. Such characters as the first white man to play in the Negro Leagues, a pitcher who threw a no-hitter while high on LSD, a catcher who was also a spy during World War II, a base-runner who cost his team the pennant by not touching a base, The Clown Prince of Baseball, and Chuck’s favorite player from his childhood who was booed by the hometown fans.

Chuck Brodsky has performed three times at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and 20 of his celebrated Baseball story songs have been enshrined in the Hall’s sound recording library. His beloved Philadelphia Phillies featured his song “Whitey & Harry” and an interview with Chuck in the documentary about their legendary Hall of Fame player and broadcaster, Richie Ashburn. The 2003 Sony Pictures film “Radio” featured a cameo appearance by Chuck and his closing title track. “Moe Berg: The Song” can be heard in the film “Jews and Baseball,” which aired on the PBS Network. Kathy Mattea’s recording of his “We Are Each Other’s Angels” is the closing track in the 1998 film “Dear Mr. Goodlife,” and eleven of Chuck’s songs appear in the 2011 film “The Deposition.” His song “Blow ’em Away” recorded by David Wilcox, and many others, also appears on the Christine Lavin produced “Laugh Tracks” and has been a long time favorite of the Dr. Demento show.

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, JANUARY 16-17, 9 AM-4 PM

In this workshop, Donna Lark will introduce you to the wet felting technique, Nuno Felting.  Students will be able to create two nuno felted scarf during the workshop.

 The Nuno Felting technique involves learning how to construct silk and wool fabric, the building block for all manner of projects from simple scarves to table runners, upholstery fabric and wall hangings.

Workshop participants will learn the history of felting and how to evaluate the quality and suitability of different silks and wools. Workshop attendees will also learn how they can continue the technique in their home.

WHAT TO BRING TO CLASS:  Participants should provide a waterproof apron, cuticle scissors, and 3-4 old towels. This is a physical process, bordering on strenuous, but anyone can do it if they pace themselves.

Instructor:
Donna Lark states “I create Nuno  Felted clothing inspired by the features of the natural world that I am attracted to on a daily basis. I love light, reflections, and colors that accompany the change of seasons. My passion comes from an old family tradition of garment making. My love of the outdoors led me to pursue degrees in Environmental Education (B.S.) and Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the University of Michigan.
Landscape Architecture is, at its core, a design process that encourages a fluid and intuitive relationship between the built environment and the natural, dynamic elements that envelope it.  At its best, a good design enhances the best qualities of both nature and structure.  In my clothing designs there is a flow of color, form, texture and structure that is not unlike the movement in a garden. I use a similar skill set that I do in designing a garden. My goal is to enhance the qualities of the structure of the human body.”

I’ve been approached by many folks who say they would like to learn how to paint in oils, but are stymied by the cost of materials, worry about toxicity and are intimidated by “how much there is to learn”.

This is a class for absolute beginners who want to take the leap. Materials will be provided so you don’t have to sink $300-$400 at the outset. In this class we will be working absolutely non-toxically. The first session will discuss pigments and mediums (toxic and otherwise), how to lay out your palette, the different styles of brushes and palette knives, what kind of marks they make, and how to clean them non-toxically. Different painting surfaces will be discussed, priming with gesso and how to tone your painting surface. (We will be working on supplied canvas panels). The subsequent three sessions will be devoted to working on your own paintings. Subject matter will be provided. One, two or even three paintings could be completed depending on the speed of the painter.

Materials fee: $30 (cash or check, payable to Chris Witkowski at the start of the first class.

On Friday, January 17th, Taps at the Guardhouse presents Judith-Kate Friedman in solo performance from 6-8pm. As a songwriter and folk artist, Friedman celebrates themes of liberation and transformation through song. With graceful fingerstyle guitar accompaniment or a percussive groove, Friedman’s lyrics invite courage and tenderness with the goal of connecting us more deeply with each other and ourselves. Her concerts are intended as celebratory events. Bluesman Guy Davis once remarked: “Judith-Kate Friedman’s voice has all the power of a hurricane delivered in a lullaby.”

As a young songwriter in San Francisco, Judith-Kate Friedman wrote and performed songs in folk clubs and toured internationally with a Vocolot, an a cappella ensemble. To this day, she also works as cantorial soloist. Over thirty years, Friedman created a non-profit, Songwriting Works, which is currently in the process of releasing its first CD consisting of songs collaboratively composed by mostly elders living on the Olympic Peninsula. The organization works “to bring the power, vitality, and fun borne of music-making to elders across the cognitive and health spectrum.”

In the ‘90s, the Ladyslipper Catalog, produced by a North Carolina-based non-profit focused on women’s music, highlighted Friedman’s release at the time by writing: “This is a quintessential folk album, with everything a folk album should have: impassioned vocals, eloquent and poetic songwriting, beautiful melodies, poignant vignettes, political commentary, tender love ballads, sparkling acoustic accompaniment. Judith Kate has been taking her music on the road to women’s and folk audiences for years now… she splashes all the vibrant colors of the rainbow into your mind. Thoughtful, finely crafted, and a pleasure to savor.”

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 & 19, 10 AM-3 PM

Each day of this two day class we will tackle one of the anatomical features that send artists running.  Hands and feet are avoided, painted loosely, shoved in pockets, or just ignored in drawing because artists are afraid of rendering them incorrectly. We will learn anatomy and starting with bone and moving out through muscle and fat for both the hands and feet. Then we will learn multiple tricks to render hands and feet so they don’t come out looking funny. With that knowledge we will do some drills drawing many hands and feet quickly. When a bunch of practice is done we will do our best creating a finished drawing.

Please join me this will be a fun couple of days tackling one of anatomies hardest subjects and afterword we will all walk away a little better.

No supplies needed.

ABOUT RICK

There is one constant in my life and that is change. Meeting new people, moving, learning, and traveling is life’s adventure to me. I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember. I spent hours drawing dragons, comic characters, and so much other fantastic stuff. Art has always been in my life and recently it has become the focus. My wife and I recently took 2 years off to travel. Then we moved to Port Townsend in 2016 and I attended The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. The traveling and school made me realize how much of my life is informed by what I create. Drawing is my kinesthetic approach to learning about the world around me. I love detail and process so I attempt to show both in my work.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, NOON-4 PM

Lightroom is the go-to non-destructive “post-processing” software for today’s photographers. But Lightroom provides more than just image processing. It is also a powerful tool to organize your images. This class will provide an overview of the Lightroom interface, including catalog preferences, importing files into Lightroom, and how to use Lightroom to organize your images within the Library module. We will cover the Development and Print modules in some depth, while providing a more general overview of the Map, Book, Slideshow and Web modules.

The class will focus on the current Lightroom Classic CC version, including how to sync your collections (albums) with Adobe Creative Cloud and using Lightroom Mobile to have your images available on your phone or tablet, plus how to share collections online.

All levels of Lightroom experience are welcome.

While bringing a laptop with Lightroom installed is preferred, a full set of notes will be provided, along with the a copy of the presentation.

If you are taking this class to see if Lightroom might be for you, please note that Adobe offers a free 7-day trial.

CLICK FOR ALLAN’S WEBSITE

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 & 19, 10 AM-3 PM

Each day of this two day class we will tackle one of the anatomical features that send artists running.  Hands and feet are avoided, painted loosely, shoved in pockets, or just ignored in drawing because artists are afraid of rendering them incorrectly. We will learn anatomy and starting with bone and moving out through muscle and fat for both the hands and feet. Then we will learn multiple tricks to render hands and feet so they don’t come out looking funny. With that knowledge we will do some drills drawing many hands and feet quickly. When a bunch of practice is done we will do our best creating a finished drawing.

Please join me this will be a fun couple of days tackling one of anatomies hardest subjects and afterword we will all walk away a little better.

No supplies needed.

ABOUT RICK

There is one constant in my life and that is change. Meeting new people, moving, learning, and traveling is life’s adventure to me. I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember. I spent hours drawing dragons, comic characters, and so much other fantastic stuff. Art has always been in my life and recently it has become the focus. My wife and I recently took 2 years off to travel. Then we moved to Port Townsend in 2016 and I attended The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. The traveling and school made me realize how much of my life is informed by what I create. Drawing is my kinesthetic approach to learning about the world around me. I love detail and process so I attempt to show both in my work.

Join Port Townsend Marine Science Center for our 8th annual Martin Luther King Day of Service!

This year, we will be pulling invasive European Dune Grass from the beaches of Fort Worden.

Some tools will be provided, but we encourage you to bring your own spading form/shovel and wear sturdy gloves!

Plan on meeting at the PTMSC Museum at noon on Jan. 20, 2020.

Light refreshments will be provided.

RSVP encouraged: Mandi Johnson, mjohnson@ptmsc.org, 360-385-5582 ext 116.

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21-23, 10 AM-1PM

Break the ice of photorealism into the delight of color and form that is abstraction at its best. We will embark on a distillation process that eliminates non-essential details, arriving at a piece of modern art that joyfully expresses the basic nature of subject and scene.

You’ll begin by drawing small, from a photo or realistic image. Then you’ll put away the original source and get larger and looser, using water-based paint and oil pastels. You’ll identify the main composition, working with big shapes, and few details. You’ll play with color, and loosen your grip on realism. Getting bigger, and working iteratively, you take this process further into an exploration of essence.

Accompanying this journey, we will look at abstract and expressionist art: how it expresses reality, how we respond to it, and whether, having explored how to abstract your own art, your response to abstraction has changed.  All levels welcome!

ABOUT MEG

TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 11, 5-8 PM

Picture yourself making that picture book! Maybe you’ve had a great idea in your head forever and want to move forward. If so, we will march step by step through the process of character development to story, right up to your own dummy, ready for submission!*

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun.

Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work. Plus, that kick in the back cover you may have been needing. AGES 16+

Required Supplies:

• Ream of copy paper

• Pad of “Mixed Media” paper, 9”x12”

• Pencils • Pencil sharpener

• Fine tip sharpies or other black markers

• One regular black Sharpie (fat, but not poster size)

• Watercolor set (cheap kid type is fine)

• Two watercolor brushes, one medium, one big and fat

• Cheap sketch pad, 5.5” x 8.5” or so

• Small bottle of india ink (waterproof)

• Something to tote all of the above in, so you can bring EVERYTHING to EVERY class

• Questions? email Dana at danajsullivan@comcast.net
  *actual results may vary. You’ve gotta put in the work.

ABOUT DANA

Dana has written and illustrated a bunch of published picture books, including Ozzie and the Art Contest, Kay Kay’s Alphabet Safari, My Red Velvet Cape, and Family Farm. He’s illustrated the Digger and Daisy early readers and the BodyOpolis series. His first graphic novel, Dead Max Comix , launches January 23 at the PTSA Grover Gallery (!) and he is currently behind schedule on Dead Max 3: Bully for You. Dana’s favorite color is dog and his favorite vegetable is peanut butter.

CLICK HERE FOR DANA SULLIVAN’S WEBSITE

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21-23, 10 AM-1PM

Break the ice of photorealism into the delight of color and form that is abstraction at its best. We will embark on a distillation process that eliminates non-essential details, arriving at a piece of modern art that joyfully expresses the basic nature of subject and scene.

You’ll begin by drawing small, from a photo or realistic image. Then you’ll put away the original source and get larger and looser, using water-based paint and oil pastels. You’ll identify the main composition, working with big shapes, and few details. You’ll play with color, and loosen your grip on realism. Getting bigger, and working iteratively, you take this process further into an exploration of essence.

Accompanying this journey, we will look at abstract and expressionist art: how it expresses reality, how we respond to it, and whether, having explored how to abstract your own art, your response to abstraction has changed.  All levels welcome!

ABOUT MEG

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM

This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you can do!

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21-23, 10 AM-1PM

Break the ice of photorealism into the delight of color and form that is abstraction at its best. We will embark on a distillation process that eliminates non-essential details, arriving at a piece of modern art that joyfully expresses the basic nature of subject and scene.

You’ll begin by drawing small, from a photo or realistic image. Then you’ll put away the original source and get larger and looser, using water-based paint and oil pastels. You’ll identify the main composition, working with big shapes, and few details. You’ll play with color, and loosen your grip on realism. Getting bigger, and working iteratively, you take this process further into an exploration of essence.

Accompanying this journey, we will look at abstract and expressionist art: how it expresses reality, how we respond to it, and whether, having explored how to abstract your own art, your response to abstraction has changed.  All levels welcome!

ABOUT MEG

On Friday, January 24 at 7pm join us for the Deer Tick Storytelling Show for a mix of booked performers and open mic slots. A Centrum Foundation Artist in Residence, and host for the night, Dana Brodsky wants to hear from YOU!

Get involved, direct message Dana Tells Stories to sign up for your time slot today. See you there!

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 & 26, 9 AM-4 PM

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place at Curly Girl Art Studio, 889 53rd St., Port Townsend . Limited to six students only.

Creating one-of-a-kind prints with pigmented beeswax and paper on a professional heated aluminum palette; this modern off-shoot of encaustic artwork involves touching a warmed plate with chunks of colored beeswax, manipulating the strokes in a huge variety of ways and then laying paper down to absorb the wax.  Once lifted, the print dries instantly, and the result is an original print.  This medium creates gentle surprises and aha moments, resulting in beautiful representational and abstracted images, landscapes, and rustic patterns. The freedom of this process is the ability to fiddle, play, discover, relax, explore, express and let go – a fast and fluid process and yet meditative. This introductory class will involve instructor demonstrations, quick guided exercises, low teacher to student ratio, and as much time to print as possible.

This workshop is for artists interested specifically in encaustics and printmaking, for the artist who wants to loosen up and explore, or for ANYONE interested in a delightful two-day art experience.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25-26, 10 AM – 4 PM

Work from a photograph or build your own still life from objects you love at home. This weekend workshop is for ambitious beginners, but fun for anyone! Study objects, mix colors, plan compositions, and look shadows and highlights right in the face and tell them who’s boss!

If you’ve never used acrylic paints, this is a great way to introduce yourself to the medium. Julie provides all the materials and will have you ready to embark on a kit of your own after this weekend.

Julie will guide you through  planning, executing and finishing at least one Still life painting.

ABOUT JULIE

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 & 26, 9 AM-4 PM

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place at Curly Girl Art Studio, 889 53rd St., Port Townsend . Limited to six students only.

Creating one-of-a-kind prints with pigmented beeswax and paper on a professional heated aluminum palette; this modern off-shoot of encaustic artwork involves touching a warmed plate with chunks of colored beeswax, manipulating the strokes in a huge variety of ways and then laying paper down to absorb the wax.  Once lifted, the print dries instantly, and the result is an original print.  This medium creates gentle surprises and aha moments, resulting in beautiful representational and abstracted images, landscapes, and rustic patterns. The freedom of this process is the ability to fiddle, play, discover, relax, explore, express and let go – a fast and fluid process and yet meditative. This introductory class will involve instructor demonstrations, quick guided exercises, low teacher to student ratio, and as much time to print as possible.

This workshop is for artists interested specifically in encaustics and printmaking, for the artist who wants to loosen up and explore, or for ANYONE interested in a delightful two-day art experience.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25-26, 10 AM – 4 PM

Work from a photograph or build your own still life from objects you love at home. This weekend workshop is for ambitious beginners, but fun for anyone! Study objects, mix colors, plan compositions, and look shadows and highlights right in the face and tell them who’s boss!

If you’ve never used acrylic paints, this is a great way to introduce yourself to the medium. Julie provides all the materials and will have you ready to embark on a kit of your own after this weekend.

Julie will guide you through  planning, executing and finishing at least one Still life painting.

ABOUT JULIE

Artists both new to town and returning are with us and are opening up their studios to show works in progress and insight into their process. Stop by and enjoy painting, encaustic work, and more!

Enjoy the work of:

Mona Monroe
Drew Harrington
Salyna Gracie
Rebecca Meloy
Kate Robbins