SAS Schedule of Classes and Workshops

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Creative Living Program

FINE and APPLIED ARTS
FALL 2008


Before registering, call the department for up-to-date information and details.
Pre-registration is required for all courses.
Unless otherwise noted with the course description, registration fees are $15 per class for daytime classes. Supplies and text fees are extra as noted in descriptions.
Classes are subject to cancellation if enrollment is insufficient.
YOU MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR THESE CLASSES.

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FINE ART and APPLIED ARTS
QUILTING and NEEDLE ARTS
POTTERY/CERAMICS
DIGITAL ART and PHOTOGRAPHY

FINE ART and APPLIED ARTS Courses:
Instructor: Paula Vershay, Room C-4:
TUESDAYS
8/26 thru 12/9

One Stroke As seen on T.V.
Decorative Painting
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Fee: $15.00
Now is your chance to paint! Here's the opportunity to create beautiful one of a kind items for your home and family. Paint on wood, glass, candles, even garden stones. Everyone can do this fun and friendly art.
Special Note: September 9th thru 30th, the Decorative Painting Class will explore painting on silk.
Silk Painting Workshop
Spending hours looking for right color to match your outfit or your décor? Now, you can create your own custom scarf or pillow cover to match any color you choose. Take home 2 scarves or 1 pillow cover but, best of all, you'll learn to paint on silk.
$25 material fee payable to instructor.

Classic and Experimental Watercolor
Join us for a fun stress free environment with a splash of the unexpected. Paint all subject matter and participate in exhibits and fieldtrips.
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Fee: $15.00

WEDNESDAYS 8/27 thru 12/10
Intermediate to Advance Oil Painting
This course teaches students to paint representative landscapes, scenery, florals and still life. Participants do not have to know how to draw in order to paint well. Using an innovative and proven technique this course "re-educates" people who often believe they cannot learn perspective. Students will select a unique picture and complete their painting with in the course session.
8:00am to 2:00pm
Fee: $15.00

Evening Beginning Oil Painting
We are looking for students who have never held a brush or drawn a line. Join people who like your self have always wanted to paint but have never given it a try. The instructor will paint with you every session and you'll complete 3 paintings in this fall session.
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Fee: $15.00

THURSDAYS 8/27 thru 12/11
Morning Art Class at Sherwood Village

Learn all about watercolor. Beginners welcome
Location: 808 N. Main St., Salinas
8:30am to 12noon

FRIDAYS 8/28 thru 12/12
Beginning Oil Painting
We are looking for students who have never held a brush or drawn a line. Join people who like your self have always wanted to paint but have never given it a try. The instructor will paint with you every session and you'll complete 3 paintings in this class.
8:30am to 12:30pm
Fee: $15.

Beginning Watercolor
For less than $20 a sheet of good quality paper and a desire you can learn to paint. In this session you will learn making wet and dry brush techniques, glazing and color mixing. You will complete 8 paintings and have fun doing it.
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Fee: $15.
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Salinas Valley Art Association
Meetings are held twice every month—see dates below. Guests welcome.
Room C-4, No Registration Fee
Host: Paula Vershay
T, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm, 9/16, 10/21 and 11/18 S, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, 9/6, 9/13, 10/4, 10/11, 11/1, 11/15 and 12/6
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Clay Work and Pottery Class
Slab, formed and wheel pottery as well as jewelry.
Instructor: K. Roy
Fee: $15.00/qtr. Supply fee extra
W 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Open Entry/Exit
Everett Alvarez HS, Room 305
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Digital
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Instructor: B.Quan Room C-1
Visit us on the web at
www.artlifelong.com
We now can print overside prints & scrapbook pages in class!
(Sold separately.)

CLASSES:

NOTE:
BASIC Computer proficiency REQUIRED for ALL courses listed below. Refer to skills checklist at front desk in CLP.


Tips n' Tricks with
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

Organize with Bridge. Scrapbook pages, collages, slideshows and much more.
Computer proficiency required. Bring your photos to class on CD-R or memory card.
Registration Fee: $15 Oversize prints extra.
CHOOSE ONE:
F, 1:00 to 4:00pm, 8/22 thru 9/19
OR T, 1:00 to 4:00pm. 8/26 thru 9/16

**Digital Camera Workshop
Shoot, Store and Share Techniques

Bring your camera plus your manual, or use ours, and learn to take and share great shots in lots of situations: portraits, animals, scenes, interiors and close-up.
Fee: $15
$12 text at Bookstore with voucher.
CHOOSE ONE:
W, 1:00 to 4:00pm, 9/17 thru 10/8
OR F, 9:00am to Noon, 10/31 thru 11/21
OR T, 11/4 thru 12/9
—no class 11/11

Turn Your Photos Into
Paintings, Posters and Gifts!

Create gorgeous digital paintings for oversize printing at school, ordering prints or canvas, or photo gifts and books. Bring photos on CD, in your camera, or old photos.
Please bring ONLY your OWN digital photos. Thanks.
Registration fee: $15 includes supplies
(in-class oversize prints extra)
CHOOSE ONE:
W, 1:00 to 4:00pm, 8/20 thru 9/10
OR F, 9:00am to Noon, 9/19 thru 10/10
OR W, 1:00 to 4:00pm, 11/12 thru 12/10

Digital Art and Printmaking
Take one graphics tablet, mix with a lot of colors, textures, shapes and effects, and you get ART!
Make oversize prints on special art papers. This class does not use photos.
Registration Fee: $15 (excluding oversize prints)
F, 1:00 to 4:00pm, 9/26 thru 12/12


Special Art Events! The Salinas Adult School in collaboration with Salinas Valley Art Association proudly presents these Saturday workshops:
2008 Guest Artist Series
9/6: Ed Avila, Pastels Workshop

Learn the basics with our very own award winning pastelist. Each student will paint a landscape.
9:00am to 1:00pm
Fee includes supplies: $25 for members of SVAA (Salinas Valley Art Association)) $50 non-member of SVAA

10/26: Dale Laiten on location at Point Lobos
Plein Air workshop. All media welcome
Fee: $45/members All day workshop. Bring lunch

12/6: Renata Radcliffe, Silk Painting
Each student will complete a hand painted scarf.
9:00am to 1:00pm
Fee includes supplies:
$25 for members of SVAA, $50 non-members of SVAA
Note: Yearly membership for SVAA is $25.


DRAWING CLASSES!
Basic Drawing and Design

Don't think you can draw? Well, think again! Innovative teacher. Basic drawing, perspective and design in pencil and other media.
Students provide own supplies.
Instructor: D. Parachini
W, 10/8 thru 12/10
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
at Everett Alvarez High School, Room 302
Fee: $15.00

Basic Drawing and Mixed Media
Seniors and others, join this fun class. Capture images you never thought possible in a basic drawing class for beginners and beyond.
T, 10:00am to Noon, 9/16 thru 12/9
no class 10/14 or 11/11
Fee: $15 plus $10 utility fee payable to SVCC
Instructor: D. Parachini
at Salinas Valley Community Church
368 San Juan Grade Road, Roomm P6
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Ikebana: The Way of the Flower
Fresh flower arranging workshop. Florals for the upcoming holidays.
Instructor: V. Baillie
Room C-12
Saturday, 12/6
10:00am to 1:00pm
Fee: $15, Supply list available
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quilter
QUILTING AND NEEDLE ARTS

Knitting and Spinning for Everyone
Create lovely knitting projects with innovative teacher. All levels of knitters are welcome.
T, 5:30 to 8:30pm
Open entry/exit
Sandy Martin
Fee: $15

Finishing Touches: Borders and Bindings
Explore different ways to frame your quilt with borders. Examine options to add pizzaz to the quilt edges or bindings.
M, 6:00 to 8:00pm, 9/10 thru 10/29
Beverly Spencer Room C-8
Fee: $15

Quilters Open Lab
All levels are welcome!
Wednesdays, 8/20 thru 12/10
12:00 to 1:00 pm
Open entry/exit
Linda Emme Kodet Room C-8
No Fee

My Secret Garden
We'll be making a quilt that features your favorite big print and incorporates complimentary border motifs. It's a deceivingly simple pattern, using a two block combination that looks far more complicated than it really is.
W, 8:30 am to 11:30am
8/20 thru 12/10
Linda Emme Kodet Room C-8
Fee: $15

Two Postcards and a Landscape
First we'll play with postcards, then we'll slide on into creating a landscape wall-hanging based on your favorite photo. This isn't printing photos on cloth. It's using cloth to create the photo! Should be fun!
W, 1:00 to 4:00 pm,
8/20 thru 12/10
Linda Emme Kodet Room C-8
Fee: $15
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