A brief introduction to abstract art and pour painting techniques followed by an open lab.

Workshop includes paint and media for one 8×10 canvas $20

Please register to save your spot and for us to gather all materials for everyone.
Registration Required.

Slow Art Day has three basic components.
1st find out who is participating locally.
2nd attend and look at three-five pieces of art slowly, allowing 3-10 minutes to view each piece of designated artwork.
3rd reflect about the Slow Art Day experience in your community

Why slow?
When people look slowly at a piece of art, they make discoveries. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without an expert (or expertise). And that’s an exciting discovery. It unlocks passion and creativity and helps to create more art lovers.
*Over 1,500 individual Slow Art Day events have taken place since their official launch in 2010.
*Slow Art Day events have taken place on all seven continents, including Antarctica.
*700 venues (museums, galleries, artist studios, sculpture parks, public art sites, etc.) have hosted Slow Art Day events.

Week 1-Pendulum Painting.
Suspend Dixie cups by string from a wooden dowel. Poke hole in bottom cup and sides to hang, Plain paper, water, paper towels, tempera paints (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black), aprons Students will study elliptical patterns by swinging paint-filled pendulums to create art! As the pendulum swings, the paint allows the class to follow patterns created.

Week 2- Splatter Paint
Flick, swish and swash your way to a work of art in this energetic class! Students practice the classic method of splatter painting, a la Jackson Pollock

Week 3-Paint Pour
Student will fill cups with tempera paint, then pour on their canvas to create a flowing color piece of art. Different pour methods yield different color designs that students will be able

Week 4- Free Art Zone
Do whatever the heck you want to do! Free art period. Students will be supplied with a multitude of arts and crafts supplies, then left to their own imagination to create masterpieces!

Cost $40.00
Classes are non-refundable unless the teacher cancels.

He mentions, “I use music and poetry as sources for my images in the same way that other artists use landscapes or the figure. I select works that I find especially moving and/or meaningful, study them closely and record my responses, questions, and discoveries about the sources. I sketch out my visual reactions to them using the typical art elements, e.g., shape, line, texture, value, etc. During this process, I find myself developing a palpable connection with the poets or composers through their work. I feel as if we are engaged in a very intimate dialog. We share ideas, challenge each other, and explore our mutual interest in the creative process.
Eventually, my preliminary studies evolve into finished images that record my private conversations with the artists who have become my mentors, colleagues, and friends.”

Tony teaches drawing, watercolor, and art criticism at ISU, the position from which he will retire in May of this year.

Crowley’s works can be found in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Harwell Art Museum, the Sheldon Memorial Gallery, the Cedar Rapids Art Museum, the Galesburg Civic Art Center, the Academy of Art Museum of Maryland, the Association Mouvement Art Contemporain in Chemalieres, France, the Maytag Foundation, the Pioneer Corporation, and a variety of university and private collections.

The show will be available for viewing on Fridays from 5-8 PM, Saturdays 10-1 PM and by appointment. The exhibition will be showcased until April 8th.

A brief introduction to abstract art and pour painting techniques followed by an open lab.

Workshop includes paint and media for one 8×10 canvas $20

Please register to save your spot and for us to gather all materials for everyone.
Registration Required.

Week 1- Free Art Zone- Do whatever the heck you want to do! Students will be supplied with a multitude of arts and crafts supplies, then left to their own imagination to create masterpieces!

Week 2- Process painting- hands and fingers. The first class starts back at the beginning- in finger painting! Hands and fingers are the only painting tools allowed, prepare to get messy!

Week 3- Process painting- pulled string. The featured method in this class is simple and soothing, yet interesting to the eyes! Students dip lengths of string into cups of paint before dragging them across surfaces to create flowing designs.

Week 4- Process painting- scraper. Only primary paint colors will be dripped onto and scraped across paper with pieces of cardboard to spread or mix.

Cost $40.00
Classes are non-refundable unless the teacher cancels.