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Painting with Susan" Painting Classes in Spring Hill, TN
Join us for Painting with Susan and attend painting classes offered in acrylics, oils and watercolors at our Winchester location in Spring Hill. Learn a new skill, have some fun, make new friends, and create a colorful legacy!
Beginners are welcomed. No need to have any painting experience. I want to help every student discover his or her inner artist and learn to enjoy the process of painting
Whether you choose a one-time class or the on-going weekly lessons, I'll guide you through the steps to create a painting you'll be proud of. Anyone can paint. All it takes is a knowledgeable teacher with a heart for students and a little practice. You'll get both in any of my classes.
Painting classes are offered in the lower level of the Winchester Building located at 563 Maury Hill Street behind Spring Hill Elementary in Evan's Park. Please call 615-668-8263 to register.or for additional information.
1. CREATIVE SPIRITS CLASS will study PLEIN AIR PAINTING starting in May
Relax and join other artists on Thursday mornings from 10:00-11:30am in May. Class will meet at the Winchester Facility of Evan’s Park behind Spring Hill Elementary. Students will learn to portray color in natural light and capture ever changing shadows while making important compositional decisions.
Offered by Spring Hill Parks and Rec and taught be Susan Elizabeth Jones, Plein Air Painting is an opportunity to truly see with our eyes, utilize our full senses, discover the richness the world offers us and capture that moment in time on canvas to be enjoyed again and again.
Participants will be guided to use their creative spirits to explore and discover the beauty of the season, making these sessions a memorable experience of time shared with new friends. All skills levels are welcome. The class emphasizes the use of acrylics, but water-soluble oils and watercolors are welcome.
Class fee is $100 for 4 sessions, plus a bonus session on location at a beautiful, surprise site. Students bring their own supplies, but an aluminum, plein air field easels are available for your use. Call 615-668-8263 to register today and learn what all the fun is about!
We will meet May 2, 9, 16, and 23. And as an added bonus, we'll meet at Robyn Barber's Tiny House and Farm on Chestnut Hill in Santa Fe on May 30 to practice plein air painting and enjoy a pot luck lunch.
In May we'll study Plein Air Painting!.
In Creative Spirits class, students bring their own supplies. We typically paint in acrylics, but for May we'll have the choice between acrylics or water-soluble oils. If you don't want to invest in either of these and already traditional oils, you may use them in class. However, you'll need to bring Gamsol and a jar with a tight-fitting lid in order to take the solvent safely away. I'll provide a list of other items you'll need when you register. Class fee is $100 per one month session (4 classes) and you can take one-, two-, three- or as many months as you like. And plan to join us for lunch! Most weeks we either go out to a local restaurant or plan a pot luck meal at the studio.
You have FUN AND CREATIVE FRIENDS you haven't even met yet!!
PLEASE NOTE:
We have entered a unit on "PAINTING EN PLEIN AIR." Students will need Field Easels to paint outside. Jerry's Artarama sells the Soho Urban Artist Aluminum Field Easel for about $40. I have a few extra if you need to borrow own. Any plein air easel is acceptable if you already have one or can borrow one for class.
2. PAINT-ALONG "MAKE & TAKE" CLASSES in Acrylics
May 16 at 6pm "Memorial Day Poppies" (acrylics) $50, all supplies included & pre-sketched canvas
May 23 at 6pm "Bad Hair Day" (acrylics) $50, all supplies included & pre-sketched canvas
Offering an afternoon class is an experiment. If you aren't available in the afternoons and want to paint this painting, I'm considering adding a 6pm class, as well.
**Private Paint-Along Parties may be scheduled at your location with a minimum of 15 students. Great for Church Groups, Book Clubs, Reunions, Team Building for the office. All supplies and instruction are included for $50 per student. Please call 615-668-8263 for more information.
3. PRIVATE PAINTING LESSONS
Never painted before? Not sure which class is best for you? Want more individualized instruction? Scheduling a private lesson may be the choice for you.
Private lessons are offered by Spring Hill Parks and Rec and taught in the Winchester Studio. Students bring their own supplies and reference photo. You'll enjoy personal assessment of your work and specific instruction for improvement. Private Lesson fee is $100 for 2-hour lesson and may be shared with one other person as long as you both are painting the same reference material. OR $150 if two students are painting different paintings. For three or more students, fee is additional $50 each. Call 615-668-8263 to reserve your private lesson.
4. PAINT-ALONG "MAKE & TAKE" CLASSES in Watercolors, SOUTHERN SPRINGS
May 10 at 10:00am "Rippavilla Barn" (watercolors) $35, with all supplies included and 5 x 7 pre-stretched paper
This Watercolor class is located in the Activity Room of the Southern Spring Clubhouse, located at 107 Blount Court, Spring Hill.
5. ILLUSTRATED NATURE- and TRAVEL-JOURNALING CLASS, RIPPAVILLA, May 31
And this little piece was creative to commemorate a trip to Maine.
And an example of a page created from my own back yard.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Susan Elizabeth Jones and the Art of Nature Journaling
Description: Have you ever taken a walk in a spring meadow or ridden your bike on a country lane or visited a formal garden or any other experience that was so beautiful you wanted to capture it to savor at any time? The sights, sounds, and feelings of nature are inspiring, and what could be lovelier than to preserve the moments of inspiration in a nature and travel journal?
Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Prince Charles are just a few journalers who kept nature- and travel-themed notebooks. Peter Rabbit and all his furry friends were characters that emerged from Beatrix Potter’s nature journals.
Nature and travel journaling was a more popular activity in a simpler time… before encyclopedias in every home, before technology and the internet, in a time when curiosity, imagination, and a lazy afternoon to explore creeks and gardens offered immense entertainment and self-reflection.
Join Susan Elizabeth Jones at beautiful and historic Rippavilla in Spring Hill to spend the day exploring the gardens, historic cemetery, historic structures, “witness trees” and documenting the many treasures that will be discovered on this 98-acre estate that has been preserved through the Land Trust of Tennessee.
Time: 10am-3pm Student Fee: $50 for members and $70 for non-members and a $12 site fee
To Register, go to ChestnutGroup.org.
Location: Rippavilla Historic Home, 5700 Main Street, Spring Hill, TN, 37174, just one mile south of Saturn Parkway off I-65S
Type of Workshop: Full day from 10am-3 pm
Student Levels for this workshop: Anyone
Student Limit: unlimited
Supply List: Blank page journal or Notebook, Black ink pen, Pencil with Eraser, Travel Watercolor set with brushes and washer cup OR watercolor pens OR Color Markers OR Color Pencils OR Combination of all of these, Backpack or Tote, Camera (optional), Picnic Blanket (optional).
Students may also wish to pack a lunch and picnic on the grounds or take a break and purchase a meal from “Marcy Jo’s on the Go” located in the kitchen at Rippavilla on Fridays and Saturdays this summer.
1. CHESTNUT GROUP ART SHOW at the PARTHENON, NASHVILLE, TN
"Own a pART of the Park" Art Show and Sale is scheduled for May 24-27 at the Parthenon in mid-town Nashville off West End Avenue and will benefit the Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park.
2. ART EXHIBIT AT SQUARE MARKET, COLUMBIA, TN in JUNE
I love painting American Flags and other patriotic-themed paintings. Make plans to dine at Square Market Cafe in June to see some of my newest patriotic and summer-themed works.
3. PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING COLLABORATION EXHIBIT AT SQUARE MARKET, COLUMBIA, TN in JULY
The artists of Creative Spirits painting class are partnering with photographers from Maury County to pair up a beautiful, Maury County-inspired photo with a painting inspired by that photo, and these photo-painting pairs will be on exhibit at Square Market Cafe in July. I'm very excited about this pairing and anxious to see it myself. Join me!
4. CHESTNUT GROUP ART SHOW at RADNOR LAKE
The Chestnut Group partners with Radnor Lake every other year for good reason. It continues to be one of the biggest and most popular of the Chestnut Group shows. We will be painting there for the next year and the show will be in the autumn of 2019.
Class sizes are limited, so we ask you give us 48 hours notice if you need to cancel. Cancellations should be made by phone or text, 615-668-8263. This provides us the opportunity to fill the space. No refunds are available, however class fees for reservations canceled at least 48 hours in advance may be credited to another class.
For inclement weather, announcements on canceled classes will be posted on Facebook. If in doubt, please call us before traveling in bad weather. Canceled classes will be rescheduled.
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