Plein Air painting with Joe MacKechnie, April 25 & 26

Open to all mediums and all skill levels.  Because the Pacific Northwest has such diverse weather throughout the year, painting outdoors can be a test of will and at times downright frustrating. Joe, a Plein Air painter has experience every kind of weather challenge and knows it can be a test of will. In this two-day workshop on our waterfront, Joe will share his insights and tips for painting outdoors–while painting outdoors. Class size 7-10. Cost $195. April 25-26, 10 am to 5 pm. Pictured above, a portion of Joe’s pastel “Journey’s End.”

Registration: At http://www.jlmackechnie.com/workshops  

            or, email Joe Mac Kechnie at joe@netos.com 

            or, call Joe Mac Kechnie at 206-930-4101 

 

Alternate contact: Jan Halliday, ptsmarts@olympus.net, or call 360-643-1282 

Darsie Beck Sat. workshop full; Sunday workshop now open

We’re adding another workshop because our waiting list has grown enough to add a second class. Join us Sunday, Feb. 24, 10-4 at the Northwest Maritime Center classroom overlooking Point Hudson. To register contact us at psmarts@olympus.net. $65 for the day. See below for more information about Darsie’s class.

Rick Steve’s workshopper Darsie Beck (Travel Sketchbook) Feb. 23, 10-4 NW Maritime Center

Join us in our beautiful NW Maritime Center classroom at Point Hudson for a full day of sketching with Darsie Beck. Darsie teaches Rick Steves’ travelers how to keep a vibrant book of memories; he teaches us how to keep and enjoy  daily journal sketching as a meditative, focusing practice. He’ll share  his journals, some of them of his most recent trip to Europe, as well as his book and suggested materials.

A great guy, lots of fun to be with! Everyone benefits, those who currently keep journals, and those new to it. Coffee and refreshments are a step away at Velocity coffee shop in the Maritime Center.

Saturday, Feb. 23, 10-4; $65. Contact us at ptsmarts@olympus.net to register.

We visit Tony Angell’s studio in January

In January we meet with sculptor, illustrator and author Tony Angell to talk about a commissioned sculpture memorial to Eleanor Stopps, instrumental in saving Protection Island from development. Her prolonged effort resulted in federal protection of the entire island, one of the largest and most important seabird rookeries in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a link to Tony’s work:

http://www.tonyangell.net

American Society Maritime Artists Lead the Way, Give Students Art Prizes

Five young artists from the Olympic Peninsula take home honors this week from the Young Marine Art Search, sponsored by the national American Society of Marine Artists.

Winners will be awarded scholarships and certificates of merit, Friday, Oct. 25, 2 p.m. at the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center, 905 West 9^th in Port Angeles. Four winners are students of Lincoln High School in Port Angeles art instructor, Melissa Klein. One student is a Port Townsend High School student taught by Kathleen Burgett.

First place winner ($500) is senior Lucy Bert who attends both Lincoln and Port Angeles High Schools, for her painting, (Kracken Attack!!).  Judges awarded her painting for impact and storytelling.

Second place ($250) is Port Townsend High School student Harrison Hodgson (Untitled 05), named by judges as a “very sophisticated, well designed abstract.”

Third place winner ($100) is Jennah Matheny, Lincoln/Port Angeles High School, for her painting (Bird Rock) which judges say is “mature design and use of color.”

 First Honorable Mention winner is Mariah Heck for her “Seal and the Bird).”

Second Honorable Mention winner is Tori Rogers (Untitled 13); both are Melissa Klein’s students.

The American Society of Marine Artists encourage younger artists to study marine art by offering scholarships each year.

Awards will be given by Austin Dwyer, past president of the Puget Sound Group of NW Painters and signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists; artist James Moore; Sue Symons, treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Art School; Jan Halliday, Director, Port Townsend School of Maritime Art and scholarship donors Margaret and Dick Elam.

Darsie Beck Workshop A Winner

Darsie Beck, Centrum artist-in-residence, author and watercolor sketchbook artist offers a great class combining organizational techniques with the Artist’s Way and other teachings for keeping yourself centered on what you really want to do with your time. He shared his journals, techniques for staying faithful to the work and then we went outside to sketch using his suggestions. Darsie returns next spring for a two day workshop at the Northwest Maritime Center’s fabulous light-filled classroom overlooking Point Hudson.

Darsie Beck, Journaling for Writers & Artists, Port Townsend, Sept. 29, 2012

Learn how to access your deepest creativity and create a lively emotion-packed  journal you’ll love to look at for years to come!

Sketchbook artist Darsie Beck teaches classes for travel guru Rick Steves. Now he’s coming to Port Townsend to teach you how to make a great journal by accessing what deeply moves you, combining pen and ink drawings, watercolor and words on the page

No experience writing OR drawing required!  Darsie will spend the morning sharing his time-proven methods of accessing creativity while living closer to your inner genius and essential nature.

After lunch, he brings out sketchbook, watercolor, pen, paste and ink to show you how to keep a daily log of what moves you deeply…at home and abroad.

For the past 10 years, Darsie has facilitated Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way workshops at his studio on Vashon Island and has held classes throughout the Puget Sound Region. He’s also authored a book on nurturing your creativity.

No experience writing or drawing required. Co-sponsored by the Port Townsend School of Maritime Art and the Writer’s Workshoppe.

Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 am-3 pm. $60. Register at The Writer’s Workshoppe, 234 Taylor St or call 360-379-2617. Bank cards accepted.

Paint with Joe MacKechnie, Venice in April, 2013

http://jlmackechnie.com/collections/8507

NW Maritime Center Luke Tornatzky Art Exhibit Sept. 2012

Luke Tornatzky’s solo exhibit at the Northwest Maritime Center’s Trettor Gallery  continues through Sept. 30. The artist will be painting on site at the Wooden Boat Festival, Friday-Sunday, Sept 7-9.

Sponsored by the Port Townsend School of Maritime Art, the exhibition includes Tornatzky’s personal collection of classic and new paintings of small craft, in both large and small scale oils and pastels.

“I’m intrigued by the shape of small boats and their reflections  on water, the play of color and light in all weather, even rain, says Tornatzky, who has sailed in Salish Sea waters and beyond for the past 20 years.  He was the poster artist for the 24th annual Wooden Boat Festival twelve years ago.

Tornatzky is represented by the Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle and his work collected worldwide. A portion of proceeds of work sold during the month of Sept. will be donated to the Wooden Boat Foundation and Northwest Maritime Center’s education programs.

Stephen Yates “Water, Sticks, Leaves” at The Cannery. September Exhibit Hours: M-F 11:30-5:30, S-S until 6.

The Port Townsend School of Maritime Art is proud to sponsor Stephen Yates solo exhibit “Water, Sticks, Leaves” at The Cannery, on the Quincy Street waterfront next to the old ferry dock, Sept. 1-23.

Yates, who has pursued his art career as a Port Townsend resident for 32 years, has been collected by Microsoft, University of Washington, The Van Andel Institute, Lexus, Kipton Financial Collection in New York, and commissioned by numerous hotels, spas, corporate offices, health care facilities, schools and colleges throughout the country.

Abstracted views of the natural world, especially water and plant forms can be found in most pieces. Gestural brushwork and many small brushstrokes are combined with fluid, uncontrolled passages and bold color to suggest energy and movement. The scale shifts dramatically from small, one-foot-square pieces to a 5×12 foot triptych.

Jake Seniuk, recently retired director of The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, describes Yates work this way:

“The impulse towards gesture wrestles with the eye’s powers of observation in the canvases of Stephen Yates. Yates has long plumbed layered spaces, floating expressive doodles and geehaws freely over feathery backdrops in which soft images of shoreline and underwater gardens are dissolved. His playful games of free-association give these internal landscapes a sense of existing in elastic time. Yates’s canvases are charged fields where matter and energy are in a state of constant flux, moving from one state to the other.”

For more information see http://www.stephenyatesarts.com