An evening experimenting with paper marbling. Start off the New Year with a creativity session at Hajosy Arts. Friday, January 15 from 6 to 10pm. Paper Marbling Workshop
Read the rest of this post...2015 Holiday Open House – December 5/6
Come join Cristina at her Holiday Open House! Saturday, December 5 from noon to 8pm and Sunday, December 6 from noon to 6pm. Visit Hajosy Arts for unique holiday gifts, artist’s books, fine art prints and photography, and an intimate look at the art education and creativity that she shares. Gift certificates for private instruction, art playdates, and group classes available! Open House discounts on upcoming art workshops for the Winter term. Learn more about what Cristina teaches, the techniques and projects that are covered, and how to harness more creativity in your art practice and life.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Artist’s Books – Flag Books – November 11, 2015
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. Is it some type of struggle, or perhaps a union? Viewers enjoy the visual movement and performative qualities of flag books. They beg the viewer to play and to keep interacting with the artwork. 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 Paper Marbling Workshop – Thursday evening – September 24, 2015
Private Paper Marbling Workshop – Thursday evening – September 24, 2015 An evening experimenting with Cristina Hajosy and 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. Your floating designs may be free-form, combed, or even blown. Structured to be an introduction for beginners and open studio for intermediate or advanced students. Learn an exciting, engaging new art. 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.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Body Books – Visual Journaling about the Body – September 15, 2015
While many artists use a journal for collecting their thoughts, reflecting on their artistic process, or sketching ideas for future work, a journal can be the final piece of art as well. This one-day workshop will investigate the relationships between the artist, the journal and specifically, the human body. Whether your own body, someone else’s or even an imaginary one…humanity is wide open with its infinite diversity. Come join Cristina Hajosy in her home studio. Tuesday, September 15, 2015 from 10am to 4pm
Read the rest of this post...Experimental Printmaking (and a Book) – Adult Workshop – Brookline Adult & Community Education – Fall 2015
Experimental Printmaking (and a Book) – New Adult Workshop at Brookline Adult & Community Education, 4 Tuesdays from September 29 – October 20, 2015 from 6:30 – 9:00pm Printmaking is a process of creative discovery because one can never be sure of what each print will bring. Often, the more fun you have, the better the artwork becomes. As you create and manipulate a series of images, you will become a better image-maker as you work on composition, texture, mood, process, and outcome Repeating an image or similar motifs or symbols always leads to an interesting collection. Conceptual and abstract ideas find a way to enter the process with this relaxed, fun experiment.
Read the rest of this post...Digital Photography – Adult Workshop – Boston Neighborhood Network TV – November 2015
Do you have an SLR that’s never left the automatic setting? Are you frustrated with the image quality of your photos? Do the words aperture, shutter, and white balance seem like a foreign language? Join Cristina for a 4-week, intensive class of lecture, shooting, and photo critique. This class begins with the fundamentals. Students learn about camera controls, light, exposure and digital workflow. We’ll explore composition, color theory and issues of visual perception. We’ll take a good look at contemporary photographers and the context for photography today. Assignments are geared toward understanding a range of technical skills, creative image making, and developing a personal visual style. November 5 – December 3, 2015 (no class on Thanksgiving!) at the BNN-TV station in Egelston Square, Boston, MA
Read the rest of this post...Paper Marbling – Weekend Adult Workshop – Concord Art Association – November 7-8, 2015
Spend a November weekend with Cristina Hajosy making Turkish-style paper marbling at the Concord Art Association. We will create beautiful stone patterns and playful combed designs. Using various techniques, we will expand the concepts into unique creations that highlight the floating and freeform nature of this medium. Working on water thickened with carrageenan (Irish moss), the patterns are easily controlled and the colors become vibrant. Experiment with a wide range of materials, colors, and papers. November 7 from 10am to 4pm and Sunday from noon to 4pm.
Read the rest of this post...Private Bookmaking Workshop – Japanese Puncture Artist’s Books – Sunday, August 23, 2015
This all-day workshop will explore another beloved book structure, the Japanese Puncture binding. It’s also referred to as a “stab” binding, but I prefer the more formal and elegant title. This technique is especially useful because it joins individual sheets. The sheets can be edited and sequenced by the artist, then bound, resequenced and bound again, and again – verses filling a bound book. A little freedom can spark creativity. This is my favorite artist’s book for visual journals, print collections, photo albums, signature books, and upscale scrapbooking. Private Bookmaking Workshop – Japanese Puncture Artist’s Books – Sunday, August 23, 2015 from 10am to 4pm
Read the rest of this post...Mixed Media Paper Treatment – Adult Workshop – New Art Center – Fall 2015
This 5-week workshop will explore surface treatments for papers within mixed media arts. Complexity in layering, building textures and depth, finding personal imagery that is elevated by this background. Students will learn how to work with paste paper, marbling paper and additional paper techniques to create various surfaces that allow for a build-up of layers. Once the background is created students will be able to finish their paintings exploring creativity freely, developing personal imagery. Wednesdays, Oct 28 to Dec 9, 2015 from 6:30 – 9:30pm at the New Art Center, Newtonville, MA
Read the rest of this post...Mixed Media – Photo Based and Image Transfer – Adult Workshop – New Art Center – Fall 2015
Join Cristina at the New Art Center in Newton for Wednesday evenings in the fall. Mixed Media – Photo Based and Image Transfer runs from September 16 through October 21, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Photo-based imagery within mixed media has become very popular. Along side other collage materials, image transfers give the artist an ability to layer and control the transparency of the ingredients in their artworks. This workshop will focus on the use of photographic images in non-traditional ways, especially image transfers and surface treatments. Solvents, acrylic gel medium and adhesive transfers are some of our projects.
Read the rest of this post...Basic Photography: Taking Better Pictures – Adult Workshop – The Eliot School – Winter 2016
Understanding photography’s basics is essential to making great images. Cristina’s 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, you’ll gain familiarity with all the camera’s buttons, and expand your personal vision. Winter 2016. The Eliot School, Jamaica Plain, MA
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