Mixed Media with Carol Duchamp

Watercolor, Fluid Acrylic, Image Transfer and Collage Techniques

tba 2012 (7 nights/8 days)

Itinerary

A stunning if touristed town, Carcassonne's La Cité is a fairy tale enclave of turrets bathed in breathtaking light. We stay just outside of town at a tranquil Hostellerie all the while enjoying Carcassonne as a painting location. Enjoy two hours of sailing on the tranquil Canal du Midi from the small port of Homps. Scattered between painting days at the Hostellerie will be on location excursions to such precipitous and romantic Cathar castles as Chateaux de Lastours, Peyrepertuse and Montségur.

Carcassonne to Carcassonne

Day 1, Arrive Carcassonne from Toulouse or Collioure, class orientation & walking tour; Day 2-7, Daily morning or afternoon painting class and selected exursions; Day 8, Depart Carcassonne for Toulouse .

Classes

This class is ideal for beginners, teachers, therapists and artists seeking a fresh start. Renew your art spirit with color and wet-into-wet water media techniques that offer the amateur and professional painter the broadest expressive range. Demonstrations and discussion will include wetting the paper or canvas, color flooding and gradation, brushwork, compositional energy, atmospheric effects, edge tinting, textual elegance, and the use of watercolor crayon and acrylic inks. In addition, we will experiment with the beauty of accidents, back-up puddles, color saturation and collage techniques. Whether your work moves in a realistic or abstract direction, innovative teaching methods will build self-confidence and enhance your skill. Individual instruction as time permits. Carol Duchamp, M.A., University of Strasbourg, France, has been teaching painting classes in the U.S. and abroad for 12 years. Her teaching style encourages experimentation and self-discovery in a supportive environment that nourishes the intuitive power of self-expression. A suggested art materials list will be mailed to enrollees.

Course includes six half-day painting classes plus orientation with artist instructor Carol Duchamp, stunning on-site plein air painting opportunities, one-on-one instruction and art party. Continuing students will have the opportunity to refine their skill and voice as painters.

Class Fee, Accommodations & Transfers: tba

To enroll in the tba 2012 Languedoc/Roussillon Mixed Media class, simply mail a deposit check made payable to Art Trek in the amount of $500 to the address below with a note containing class date, your address, phone number, email, skill level and what interested you about the trip. Or print out our website reservation form. Balance of payment ($400) is due 2-months prior to departure date. Questions? Call 415 868 9558 or Email carol@arttreks.com. Mail to Carol Duchamp, Art Trek, P.O. Box 1103, Bolinas, CA 94924.

Instructor
CAROL DUCHAMP holds a B.A. in French and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Strasbourg, France. Her paintings are rich in color, lushly saturated and sensual in form and have been called "cosmic, flowing and full of light". Artists interested in developing their own voice and visual language will benefit from Carol's expressive, energy based methods. Her deeply saturated color and organic forms lend themselves beautifully to a sense of place. Methods for exploring the illusion of texture, drawing into prepared surfaces, layering, working directly with pigment and refining chance occurrences will be explored. Carol offers strategies for creating a daily art practice and methods that "free the artist" in the beginner as well as the experienced professional. Create a visual language that is uniquely yours and enjoy a fresh start in making art.

Renew your art and spirit with color and wet-into-wet water media techniques that offer the amateur and professional painter the broadest expressive range! Enroll in one or both of the Collioure and Carcassonne classes.

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