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Justin the hunter, (Boykin Spaniel)21x17
This is available in a giclee print.
Skylight Farm creates a destination for
artists seeking creative, spiritual enlightenment

Lifestyle Workshops with Karen and Chris Weihs.
Design your own class or join in scheduled workshops, "seminarts" or cooking classes.

KAREN WEIHS:
Creating art is more than just churning out canvas after canvas, perfecting brush strokes or honing color and composition. It is about inspiration and growth, about nourishing the creative side and tapping into that connection between reality and fantasy. Classes include private and group classes at $100 a day per student. Call Karen at 828/226-4024 to arrange your private class at her studio at Skylight Farm.

Karen says, “You need support from others. It is a conflict between self and soul, and you need to know you are doing it for the right reasons. You need that stimulation from others, like-minded people, from others on that journey.” The farm is only 3 miles from the crossroads (the only stoplight in town) of the tiny hamlet of Cashiers, a western North Carolina mountain town of natural rainforest beauty. Cashiers is also one hour away from The Asheville NC Airport and Greenville/Spartanburg (SC) airports.

CHRIS WEIHS:
A retired chef/restaurateur, Chris invites foodies to private cooking classes designed by you and him in his kitchen at Skylight Farm. He designs his cooking days with organic food, lifestyle information for healthy eating and living with culinary simplicity. Your class can be anything you want to do, supermarket excursions to learn how to shop to how to grow organic herbs and vegetables. Participants learn more than cooking with Chris Weihs, like the benefits of a lifestyle change with a healthy, organic culinary cuisine.

Karen and Chris Weihs love to organize lifestyle classes in their kitchen/home studio at Skylight Farm with foodies and artists. Their warmth and generosity from their 33 year marriage penetrates with life lessons not only for a healthy eating lifestyle but life lessons on how to be a truly happy "life" artist.

Classes at Skylight Farm in the spacious studio facilitated by Karen Weihs include the following schedule below.
Call 828-743-3588 or 828-226-4024 for more information.

2008 Class Schedule

KAREN WEIHS
Mon - Thurs Oct 27-29, 2008
THE HARMONIOUS OILS PALETTE SIMPLIFIED $300

At The High Hampton Inn, Cashiers, NC in the beautiful lakeside Wade Hampton Room. Students may sign up through calling the High Hampton Inn at 828/743-2411, workshop coordinator is Mark Jones.  Accommodations, if needed,  are excellent at the Inn,  and meals come with the program. Class fee is offered with or without accommodations. the 3-day class description is described below.

Day 1- Temperature and Color Harmony, Organization of the Family of Colors and Painting Habits
Day 2- Complements simplified- complete 3- 8x10 paintings with each complement family
Day 3- Work and Finish 2 paintings from the nature surrounding the studio. How to Finish an Oil Painting and have it successful

"Karen in the artist in residence at the chic food and wine establishment, Vigne Restaurant, corner of Lexington and Hillard Streets in downtown Asheville, NC".

KAREN WEIHS - September 10 - 12
Paint in the Eastern Shore Bay area where it is Eternal Spring
at the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope Alabama.

THE HARMONIOUS OILS PALETTE SIMPLIFIED
$400 for members - $450 for non-members
Bring a sandwich, all else provided *See Supplies List

Day 1- Temperature and Color Harmony, Organization of the Family of Colors and Painting Habits
Day 2- Complements simplified- complete 3- 8x10 paintings with each complement family
Day 3- Work and Finish 2 paintings from the nature surrounding the studio. How to Finish an Oil Painting and have it successful

The contact for the class is Suzan Christiansen at suzanc815@bellsouth.net

KAREN WEIHS - Visiting Instructor, Telluride, CO
Oil Painting Class, August 1-3, 2008
$280 for the class/book.

THE HARMONIOUS OILS PALETTE SIMPLIFIED $300 Bring a sandwich,
all else provided *See Supplies List

Day 1- Temperature and Color Harmony, Organization of the Family of Colors and Painting Habits
Day 2- Complements simplified- complete 3- 8x10 paintings with each complement family
Day 3- Work and Finish 2 paintings from the nature surrounding the studio. How to Finish an Oil Painting and have it successful

Students must stay in the area, and classes are held at the Ahhaa School for the Arts in downtown Telluride, CO. www.ahhaa.org or attention Julie, education director, julie@ahhaa.org or 979/728-3886 Necessary items will be provided from the school, www.ahhaa.org in downtown Telluride, Colorado.

KAREN WEIHS SUPPLY LIST
FOR CLASSES AT SKYLIGHT FARM

  • The Blue Valley Gallery and Art supply Store has all the supplies in stock for the class if you need to buy them in Cashiers in the shopping complex called Laurel Mt. Shops. Velda gives a 10% discount for the classes. 828/743-2956
  • Please bring your lunch and anything else you may need for sustenance while working en plein air. There will be water, tea, etc. provided in the studio.
  • DO NOT BUY ANY TUBE PAINTS THAT SAY WINTON ON IT EVEN IF IT IS A WINDSOR-NEWTON LABEL. THEY ARE STUDENT GRADE AND HAVE BLACK COMPONENTS AND FILLERS IN THE PAINT.
  • A warm and cool of each color family is needed, the color families are red, yellow, blue and green and there is one added violet to produce a harmonious family unit of colors.

Buy these in Gamblin, Grumbacher, Utrecht,
Old Holland or Windsor-Newton brands.

1. Alizarin Crimson or Carmine (I prefer Carmine)
2 Cad Red Light & Cad Red Dark
3.Cad. Yellow Lemon & Cad Yellow Deep
4. Cad Orange & Transparent Orange by Gamlin brand
5. Titanium white (Permalba white is good also)
6. Viridian Green and Sap Green
7. Ultramarine Blue and Manganese Blue by Gamlin brand
8. Manganese Violet and Radient Violet by Gamlin
9. Liquin Impasto
10. Holbein Blue Black
*Ivory black,Yellow Ochre,Violet Grey by Old Holland brand, Cobalt Turquoise, Transparent Oxide Red, Terra Rosa, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna

* these colors are "sometimes" colors and are not vital to the class but at times necessary.

  • Lean Medium by Archival brand and a small container for it.
  • Turpenoid odorless turpentine or odorless mineral spirits with a portable container with lid.
  • Viva Paper Towels with a short bungi cord for it to hang on the easel.
  • Palette Knife, Italian pointed kind.
  • Langnickel or other flat soft brushes, various sizes 2-12 for beginning the painting process.
  • Silver Grand Prix filbert hog hair brushes, various sizes 4-12 for finishing the rest of the painting.

PANELS / CANVASES & easels:

Fredrix green label linen canvas, several 11x14-16x20 or bigger if you desire, Ray-mar linen panels , thin enough for travel and plein air.

 

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