Art Classes, Coupeville
Our workshop is primarily centred around two pivotal elements crucial to all photography: ‘perception and communion’. But when applied to our photography, what do these two words mean? We will be exploring both of them in depth. Our photography will be about attending, intending, identifying and ultimately joyfully embracing what we have emotionally and visually fully and wholeheartedly engaged with. The intention is for ALL participants to emerge from the workshop with newly discovered ways of noticing, seeing, interpreting and…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
In Kyrgyzstan, when a daughter got married, her mother and her relatives felted her a rug. Using their ancient symbols they felted her best wishes and good luck into the rug that stayed with her for the rest of her life. In this workshop, you’ll create a felted rug (approximately 3’x5’) with the instructor’s pre-felt technique, using either the several hundred-year-old symbols or creating your very own. Come and join us for a four-day workshop and learn – about the…
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Art Classes, Langley
Alla prima still life and figure painting Date: October 22 - 25 Tuition: $600 Skill level: all levels This class is about painting alla prima (wet into wet) and the techniques used to create a fresh, painterly response to our subjects. Be prepared to use large brushes for big, bold strokes of paint. Students will learn to look at a subject, still life and the figure, and see it in terms of large basic shapes. Working on a toned ground,…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
WORKSHOP LOCATION: 560 Hill Valley Road, Coupeville WA home studio of Mike Wise Please join Mike Wise for three days of instruction in his beautiful home studio on Whidbey Island minutes from the town of Coupeville. Mike is known for his gorgeous lake and lily pond scenes and will teach his students methods and techniques for creating beautiful compositions containing floating water lilies, underwater logs and rocks, ripples, and reflections of sky. Throughout this three-day workshop, students will explore how…
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$25 – $45
Langley, Performing Arts
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand, dream-tweaked comedy is about art and activism, feminism and terrorism, and compatriots and chosen sisters. Thursday, October 7, 20217:30 PM Saturday, October 23, 202110:30 PM…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
Learn the Fun and Excitement of watercolor as you follow along step-by-step to create a finished painting. You will learn three-part composition, what colors are compatible, simple masking techniques, and creating texture with a water medium. You will go home with your own beautiful watercolor creation. Please arrive ten minutes early to set up and prepare to start on time. All levels welcome!
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Langley, Outdoor Events
In addition to Pumpkins being fun to decorate this time of year they are the symbol of Fall, they are in our lattes, sweet and savory treats and we decorate our homes with them. To celebrate all things pumpkin this year, take a trip to downtown Langley and test out the many offerings local business have in pumpkin form. Please join The Langley Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the spirit of Halloween with a FREE Pumpkin Day! The Chamber will…
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$30 – $45
Langley
The Atomic Bombshells, Seattle’s polished and perfectly-choreographed professional burlesque troupe, seamlessly integrate the worlds of burlesque, drag, dance, and theater with good humor and classic style. This is no send-up; it’s the real thing! The boisterous Bombshells have been instrumental in Seattle's burlesque revival, so for lovers of feathery, busty, and glitzy fun, there's no better spectacle to attend. *Youth under 18 not admitted.
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Art Classes, Langley
Showcase the Color of Light – Next Level November 5 - 8 Tuition: $750 Skill level: intermediate to advanced This class begins with a review of painting principles, including optical mixing of layered color, essential elements of strong composition and the effects of light. We will also focus on the later stages of painting, learning to harmonize color masses while developing the ability to really see and mix color, especially those that are nuanced and subtle. Finally, we will explore…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
During this three-day workshop, students will learn how to create a textured and unique surface by felting merino wool onto mulberry paper, and vice-versa. Paper is a material that provides certain tactile qualities, while adding more structure to the felt. Students will learn how to combine these two materials, how to trap the mulberry paper into the surface with wool, and how to felt both of them together. Students will use this technique to create several 12” x 12” pieces,…
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Art Classes, Langley
Alla Prima Portrait Painting Date: November 11 - 14 Tuition: $750 This workshop will focus on learning to paint a portrait from life in oil. Sean uses a very distinct palette, called a “mud-Palette” when working. This palette will be discussed extensively throughout the workshop. The benefits of working with this palette are value and color control. Through a simple step-by-step process to portrait painting, Sean will discuss harmony and unity in your final piece, composition, drawing, likeness, organizing your…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
This exciting and hands-on workshop will investigate exploratory techniques and approaches in Encaustic Portraiture and Figurative art. We will focus on the creation of rich and expressive surface designs and original pieces done with a combination of encaustic painting and mixed media techniques. Throughout the workshop, some different demonstrations will be done, providing an extensive array of visually-stimulating possibilities for artists to explore. Both encaustic and mixed-media techniques will be covered, including creating alternative working grounds, using a wide variety…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
For many photographers, color presents a lot of challenges. In many images, the use of monochrome brings out the shapes and textures stronger than color. Perhaps it’s that in many images color can be distracting and taking away the drama of the scene. In monochrome photography, one can adjust the brightness, shadows and contrast to their individual liking, just as we can with color, but the unexpected, monochrome, is often stronger and evokes far different responses to the viewer than…
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Art Galleries, Coupeville
Start with dark – printing an image that captures bold, graphic elements – then add layers of printing to add marks in shades and hue that change the life of the print. Using yard pieces of cloth, we’ll use various printing techniques from monoprints to screen printing (and lots of ways in between) using fiber reactive dye to print fabric that is unique. These prints may be used as the start of a whole cloth quilt, part of an assembled…
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Free
Twenty Whidbey artists: one weekend, one place! Whidbey Art Market is an informal and ever-changing group of Whidbey Island visual artists, coming together to share our visual art with you in unique and diverse Whidbey Island venues. Please join us for the final event of 2021: just in time for the holidays! Enjoy a fun day of art shopping, with work by artists you may not see in other locations. Our hope is that you will see friends you haven’t…
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Art Classes, Coupeville
In my ever-expanding Sacred Marks workshop, we find raw inspiration in nature’s wild heart to hone our own unique creative voice and tell the stories we are here to tell. On beautiful Whidbey Island, I’ll share with you an array of techniques, but more than that, invite you into the beauty of your own way of seeing the world, help you find ways to loosen up and embrace limitless possibilities in your art-making through mixed media, word, acrylic ink and…
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Art Galleries, Coupeville
In my ever-expanding Sacred Marks workshop, we find raw inspiration in nature’s wild heart to hone our own unique creative voice and tell the stories we are here to tell. On beautiful Whidbey Island, I’ll share with you an array of techniques, but more than that, invite you into the beauty of your own way of seeing the world, help you find ways to loosen up and embrace limitless possibilities in your art-making through mixed media, word, acrylic ink and…
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$750
In this 3-day (Friday-Sunday) workshop with award winning photographer Susan Burnstine you will explore your Personal Story. Photographic images are deeply rooted in personal emotion. This is the case whether they are found or created, and it is the case regardless of genre—be it landscape, still life, portraiture, nature, abstraction, photojournalism, self-portrait, or documentary. As photographers who strive to convey our visions in a true, honest, and consistent manner, we establish an emotional connection to each image we create. Under…
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