Morag Stokes
Website: www.stokes.net.nz
Area of Operation: New Zealand, Wellington
Events:
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Airbrushing with High Flow
Always wanted to know how to use an airbrush for your painting, fabric or craft projects? During this workshop you will use masking to make layered images with GOLDEN’s airbrush acrylics (High Flow), while learning how to control the paint and air flow. You will also use interference fluid paint with airbrush medium to create special effects on 3D objects. There will be no spirit or lacquer mediums used. I will be hosting this workshop to be taught by Fifi Colston whose skills as an artist and teacher I cannot recommend highly enough. It will be an honour to collaborate with her to put this day together. She airbrushed professionally as a commercial artist for 20 years, and now uses it for her wearable art, costume and props projects. She knows all the tips and tricks! Class numbers are limited to 6 and the day is suitable for beginners to art as well as experienced painters.
Date: November 23rd, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $195
Event Open to Public
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Art Nouveau Design
This workshop spans a weekend in October with all materials provided. It will look at some of the design elements in the work of Charles Rennie MacIntosh, a Glasgow born architect, designer, artist and one of Scotland's most influential creative figures. We will view images of some of his works to identify the basic design elements he became famous for during the Art Nouveau period – a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves, elongated forms, flowing lines, restrained colour, symbolism, geometric patterns, and emphasis on the rectilinear. You will play with those elements to make your own MacIntosh inspired designs. Everyone will have the opportunity to try out colour pencils, GOLDEN’s QoR watercolours, Fluid, High Flow and SoFlat paints on a variety of grounds. You can choose from Canson Drawing Paper, Bockingford Cold Pressed Watercolour paper or Hahnemuhle Acryl to develop your work.
Date: October 19th, 2024 - October 20th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $220
Event Open to Public
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Working with Colour
This workshop is about mixing colour to produce satisfying and exciting colour combinations in your paintings. We will work with top quality GOLDEN acrylics and you will learn about how to achieve overall colour harmony in your work. We will also cover working with complimentary colours, ‘loud and quiet’ colours and our personal colour cravings. The workshop will be more about practice than theory, although special attention will be given colour value (its place on a grey scale) and chroma (brightness). You will also learn about the pigment realities that are often neglected in theory based colour teaching – in other words, pigment selection for the cleanest and brightest possible mixes. The morning will concentrate on developing your own personal palette and by the afternoon you will be using this palette in an abstract painting inspired by the exciting dance-like colour works of Chinese artist Mimi Chen Ting. Class numbers are limited to 6 and the day is suitable for beginners to art as well as experienced painters.
Date: September 21st, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $160
Event Open to Public
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The Artist Sessions #5
The Artist Sessions are an alternative to structured workshops which will give artists the opportunity to work on their own projects in a well- equipped studio, with tuition, group discussion and critique available. An extensive range of GOLDEN paints and products will be at hand with advice and guidance on their use to enable you to explore your every painterly whim! Each session is three hours long, available in blocks of six. Note that this six-week block is punctuated by the school holidays which are from 30th September to 13th October.
Date: August 27th, 2024 - October 15th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue: Morag Stokes Studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $240 for 6 x 3 hour sessions
Event Open to Public
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Woman in Gold
This course is 4 x 2.5 -hour evening classes with most materials provided. Some of you may have seen the movie WOMAN IN GOLD staring Helen Mirren. It’s about the Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, by Gustav Klimt, which was stolen by the Nazis, recovered in more recent time, and is now in New York. Fascinating story –fabulous painting! If you’d like to have a go at creating your own ‘Adele’ inspired work, this block of evening classes is for you. You can get as funky as you like with your re-invention of this work, have some fun with a collaged face and hands and do all the elaborate bits with metallic paints, pens and needle tip bottles. You will learn about and use a range of top quality GOLDEN Iridescent paints in Heavy Body, Fluid and High Flow to make a pattern bank and use it in developing your work on pre-gessoed black cartridge paper.
Date: July 25th, 2024 - August 15th, 2024
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $190
Event Open to Public
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The Artist Sessions #4
The Artist Sessions are an alternative to structured workshops which will give artists the opportunity to work on their own projects in a well- equipped studio, with tuition, group discussion and critique available. An extensive range of GOLDEN paints and products will be at hand with advice and guidance on their use to enable you to explore your every painterly whim! Each session is three hours long, available in blocks of six. Please note that this block in punctuated by the school holidays - no Sessions on the 9th and 16th of July.
Date: July 2nd, 2024 - August 20th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $240 for 6x3 hour sessions
Event Open to Public
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Gelli-Plate Monoprinting
This workshop will show you the techniques you will need to make a range of monoprints using the latest synthetic gelatine plates from Gelli Arts. Using a variety of stencils, masks, stamps (some commercial, some home-made), and pressed leaves you will work with GOLDEN’s OPEN Acrylics to make your multi-layered prints without a printing press. You can then take them a stage further using High Flow paint in paint pens or with brushes. These prints make beautiful art works and are also ideal for use in collage, scrapbooking and greeting card making. Gelli prints can also be incorporated in layers into your regular paintings – the possibilities are endless! In creating several small art works on paper, you will learn about working with transparent and opaque paints and the outcomes of layered colour mixing. You will also use iridescent colours for some special effects. Class numbers are limited to 6 and the day is suitable for beginners to art as well as experienced painters and print makers.
Date: June 22nd, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $160
Event Open to Public
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Mixing Landscape Greens
This colour mixing workshop will be of particular interest to landscape painters and those who like to represent the greens of nature in their work. We will focus on creating palettes which work well for foreground, mid distance and distant greens. Green can be a difficult colour to get right in landscape work as is doesn’t ‘travel’ well from near to far. Some very far greens are scarcely green at all, with their saturation, value and hue changing as they recede into the distance. You will learn how create greens that give this sense of aerial perspective. You will also learn how to create the brightest and cleanest colour mixes, greens in particular, from a Modern (Organic) colour palette.
Date: May 25th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $95
Event Open to Public
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The Artist Sessions #3
The Artist Sessions are an alternative to structured workshops which will give artists the opportunity to work on their own projects in a well- equipped studio, with tuition, group discussion and critique available. An extensive range of GOLDEN paints and products will be at hand with advice and guidance on their use to enable you to explore your every painterly whim! Each session is three hours long, available in blocks of six. Note that there will be no Sessions on 9th and 16th July due to the school holidays.
Date: May 21st, 2024 - June 25th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $240 for 6x3 hour sessions
Event Open to Public
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Excavating Light in Drawing and Painting
In this workshop we will work with OPEN Acrylic paints for painting in the morning and charcoal for drawing in the afternoon. Reductive (or subtractive techniques as they are sometimes known) have been used by many artists over the years, such as Edgar Degas and Frank Auerbach, to create moody, expressive artworks. This technique starts with a completely dark covered surface and areas are gradually erased back to light, creating a range of values which allows form to emerge. As the piece develops, the charcoal or paint can be added back to intensify the low lights, bringing the work to completion through the interplay of reductive and additive mark making. You will learn about slow drying OPEN acrylics which can be worked and reworked for extended periods without drying out. Your surface will be MDF board covered in a ground of textured Molding Paste – a minimally absorbent covering which makes paint removal easy and leaves wonderfully expressive marks. During the afternoon, you will work on paper with charcoal and learn how to excavate light with a variety of erasures, to create moody imagery.
Date: April 13th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $160
Event Open to Public
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The Artist Sessions block #2 2024
The Artist Sessions are an alternative to structured workshops which will give artists the opportunity to work on their own projects in a well- equipped studio, with tuition, group discussion and critique available. An extensive range of GOLDEN paints and products will be at hand with advice and guidance on their use to enable you to explore your every painterly whim! Each session is three hours long, available in blocks of six. Note that this block is punctuated by the school holidays. There will be no Sessions on 16th and 23rd of April.
Date: March 26th, 2024 - May 14th, 2024
Time: 10:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $240 for 6x3 hour sessions
Event Open to Public
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Part Seen Part Imagined
This workshop, inspired by the botanical watercolour paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, will introduce you to QoR watercolours and High Flow acrylics for painting floral studies. Mackintosh’s watercolour style often involved leaving some areas of his drawings understated, simply as linear suggestions rather than painted passages – “part seen and part imagined”. You will consider the work of other artists who deliberately leave parts of their work understated and make similar decisions as you develop your own water media studies from a range of botanical photographs and actual flowering plants. You will work from pen or pencil drawing to painting. Bringing flowers from your own garden is encouraged. This workshop is suitable for beginners to water media painting, as well as more experienced artists.
Date: March 23rd, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $160
Event Open to Public
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Part Seen Part Imagined
This workshop, inspired by the botanical watercolour paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, will introduce you to QoR watercolours and High Flow acrylics for painting floral studies. Mackintosh’s watercolour style often involved leaving some areas of his drawings understated, simply as linear suggestions rather than painted passages – “part seen and part imagined”. You will consider the work of other artists who deliberately leave parts of their work understated and make similar decisions as you develop your own water media studies from a range of botanical photographs and actual flowering plants. You will work from pen or pencil drawing to painting. Bringing flowers from your own garden is encouraged. This workshop is suitable for beginners to water media painting, as well as more experienced artists.
Date: March 16th, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: morag stokes studio, Waikanae, , New Zealand
Contact: Morag Stokes
Email: jubileems@gmail.com
Phone: 0273803282
Fee: $160
Event Open to Public