Porcelain Artists of the Great Northwest (PAGN)
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington
 

TEACHERS
Second Session - August 25 through August 28, 2005


Marlene Eagan


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For the Second Session, Marlene will be teaching Introduction to Painting Birds with a Blue Heron on a 6" x 12" tile.  The use of washes and various techniques to render realistic details will be especially helpful to beginners.

Celee Evans


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For the Second Session, Celee will be teaching Agate Etching on a covered rectangular box, featuring Lilacs.  Students will choose from a simple composition with modest gold to more extravagant clusters with detailed agate-etched gold & scrolling.  The emphasis will be on designing a box and using penwork to create a pattern for the etching.

Susan Greathouse


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Susan will be teaching flowers on a glass cylinder lamp.  Pansies will be the Second Session.  The emphasis will be on glass techniques and composition in the round.

Camille Mueller


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Camille Mueller will be teaching Animals on a tile, using Grizzly Bears in the Second Session, with emphasis on techniques for fur textures, painting eyes and capturing a realistic likeness.

Andrew Orr


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Andrew Orr will be teaching Roses in the Second Session.  Andrew stresses the importance of original thought and continual study of nature, grounded in art fundamentals.

Birgit Porter

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Birgit Porter will be teaching the Dresden Style on an 8" plate, using monochrome Tulips with gold decorations.  The Second Session will use blue.  Emphasis will be on the correct brush strokes for painting in this elegant style using the traditional closed European medium.  Beginners & Intermediate painters are welcome to both sessions.  (TURPENTINE will be used.)

Michael Sullivan


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Michael Sullivan will be teaching luster techniques with Grapes the Second Session.  Many suggestions for the use of lusters will be demonstrated in both class sessions, and beginners are welcome in both sessions.  (ACETONE and LUSTER ESSENCE will be used.)

Mariela Villasmil


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Mariela Villasmil will be teaching portraits on a tile.  For the Second Session, she will be teaching an exquisite Amazonian Indian child.  A variety of techniques useful in portraiture will be emphasized.

Paula White


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For the Second Session, Paula White's class will move into more complex subjects giving the student choices for Seascapes.

Lerene Woodward


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Lerene Woodward will be teaching a more stylized scene painting with a Castle on a covered box for the Second Session.  The emphasis will be on painting architectural elements in a countryside and various decorative techniques to enhance the composition.