Getting Familiar with Your Digital Camera, adult photography workshop, 4 Wednesdays from 6-9 pm, starting May 6, 2015 at the Boston Neighborhood Network’s television station. Understanding photography’s basics is essential to creating great images. Start with basic photographic principles and camera controls and expand to composition, color theory and issues of visual perception.
Read the rest of this post...Private Workshop – Paper Marbling – Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Come spend a day experimenting with paper marbling. We’ll focus on Turkish-style marbling. This method, “Ebru”, can produce lovely figurative designs of fish, flowers, birds. and abstract shapes or go with the traditional combed patterns. This workshop is structured to be an introduction for beginners or an open studio for intermediate or advanced students. Fostering an open, relaxed environment where all levels of artists can learn and share ideas, producing beautiful papers, and expanding your art practice; that’s what it’s all about. Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 10am to 4pm.
Read the rest of this post...Private Workshop – Paper Marbling – Wednesday, April 22, 2015
This one-day workshop gives you a window into the secret world of marbling. Paper marbling, not unlike magic and illusion trickery, has been a technique known only by a select few. No longer. We’ll focus on Turkish-style marbling. This method, “Ebru”, can produce lovely figurative designs of fish, flowers, birds. and abstract shapes or go with the typical combed patterns. Your floating designs may be free-form, combed, or even blown.
Spend the morning learning the process or jump right in, if you’re familiar with the materials. This workshop is structured to be an introduction or an open studio for intermediate or advanced students. Fostering an open, relaxed environment where all levels of artists can learn and share ideas, producing beautiful papers, and expanding your art practice; that’s what it’s about.
Read the rest of this post...Basic Photography: Taking Better Pictures – Adult Workshop – The Eliot School – Spring 2015
Understanding photography’s basics is essential to making great images. This 6-week intensive will start with basic photographic principles and camera controls and expand to composition, color theory and issues of visual perception. Exciting homework assignments will focus on your specific shooting subjects, gaining familiarity with all the camera’s buttons, and expanding your personal vision.
Read the rest of this post...Mixed Media Books – Teen Summer Intensive – Brookline Arts Center – July 27-31, 2015
Brookline Arts Center’s Summer Intensives offer students the opportunity to explore artistic mediums of their choosing in both a focused and fun environment. Classes encourage individual artistic exploration as well as introduce and develop techniques and skills for each medium. Cristina’s teaching ages 13- 17 in this one-week mixed media class. Projects will include artist’s bookmaking, printmaking, collage, and photo image transfer.
Read the rest of this post...Artist’s Bookmaking – Adult Workshop – Cambridge Center for Adult Education – begins January 14, 2015
Artist’s Bookmaking Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 8 Wednesdays 7:45 – 9:45pm Begins January 14, 2015 Explore the world of artist’s bookmaking with this survey of techniques and applications. From single sheet constructions, accordions, and sewn binds to more complicated hybrids, this course covers all the materials and techniques needed to […]
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Private Bookmaking Workshop – Flag Books – Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Private Book Arts Workshop – Wednesday, November 12, 2014 – Spend the day making unique artist’s books with Cristina. Flag books have wonderful sculptural possibilities. With multiple angles of view, they provide interesting double narrative potentials, contrasting viewpoints, or “yin and yang”, if you will. There so many approaches to content. Excellent for creative poetry, wish lists, sweet nothings, photographs, abstract designs, and more!
Read the rest of this post...Private Workshop – Portrait Photography – October 18, 2014
Private Photography Workshop with Cristina Hajosy Workshop Title: Portrait Photography Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 2014 – 10am to 4pm Location: Canton, MA Limited to 6 students Tuition: $125 Includes class handouts and lunch! Spend a Saturday exploring portrait photography. From formal, posed portraits to photojournalistic, candid moments – great people pictures will always […]
Read the rest of this post...Photo-based Mixed Media – Adult Workshop – Cambridge Center for Adult Education – begins September 24, 2014
For many contemporary artists, the journey into mixed media starts with the photographic image. Photo-based mixed media inspires new insights into the power of the photograph within other artistic contexts. In this course, you will use hand coloring, collage, assemblage, monotype printing, and artist’s bookbinding to explore elevation of the photographic image. Experimenting with varied techniques and concepts, you will apply your personal creativity to self-portraits, series, and repeated images or themes. This course is open to all students in any media (except oil paints) at any level who wish to expand their artistic process in a playful, supportive environment.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Altered Books – April 26, 2015
An altered book is “any book, old or new, that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art.” With no rules, the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination. The book becomes a canvas, a sculpture or a reliquary of personally meaningful content. Draw inspiration from the book’s original author or purely use the book as a structure. Interesting altered book choices will be provided, in addition to selections from your home library.
Read the rest of this post...Mixed Media – Altered Books – Adult Workshop – New Art Center in Newton – begins October 28, 2014
An altered book is “any book, old or new, that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art.” With no rules, the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination. The book becomes a canvas, a sculpture or a reliquary of personally meaningful content. Draw inspiration from the book’s original author or purely use the book as a structure.
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