This course is designed for beginning and intermediate students interested in developing strong drawing skills. Composition and its value, line, shape and texture will be explored using graphite pencil and charcoal. We will do studies from the human; gesture drawing, studies of a clothed model, hands and faces. Bring a sketchbook and drawing pencils. Materials $10 Bring your lunch. We provide yummy, homemade cookies and tea.

A fun introduction to the basics of acrylic painting. We will start with some right brain exercises in contour drawing and then move into exploring brushwork, composition, emotions and color and color mixing. The most striking feature of acrylic paint is its versatility. We will explore the variety of ways it can be used from watercolor to palette knife painting to mixed-media. Materials $10 Bring your lunch. We provide yummy, homemade cookies and tea.

Calling all artists, writers, scrapbookers and journalers: take your lovely ritual to the next level and learn to make your own book in one afternoon! Join local artist, Jenn Carson Garnhum, a member of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, as she poses the question: what makes a book?
Jenn will walk you through basic bookbinding techniques so you can re-create simple one-signature notebooks at home using economical and environmentally-friendly materials: paper, thread, and homemade paste. Using more exotic materials, like handmade Japanese paper, we will make dazzling covers for our folded treasures. We will then personalize our pages so they become one-of-a-kind places to record our thoughts and ideas. Leave with a handful of little books and a mind full of fun uses for them! All levels welcome. Materials fee $15

Energy Medicine shows you how to understand and work with your body's reservoir of electromagnetic and more subtle energies to increase your vitality, identify and correct energy imbalances that keep you from being your best, and enhance your health and your state of mind. For more than three decades Donna Eden has been teaching people how to work with these energies to reclaim their natural healing capabilities. This information session will bring us together to watch a video presentation of her basic principles and techniques. We will have an opportunity to learn her 5 minute daily energy routine which is a group of energy techniques to assist us in keeping our energies unblocked and flowing. More information about Donna can be found at her website
http://www.innersource.net.
An interview with Donna can be found here.
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/deden.htm

If you are interested to attend please call 650-3333 so we have an idea of numbers.

for ages 13-16

We will start the afternoon creating a variety of sample sheets using textures and colors using pencil, marker and acrylics. Through discussion and looking at the Masters work, students will learn about value, color, form, perspective and line. Working on masonite boards participants will proceed to cut their sheets into small pieces to begin building their mosaic artwork.

Materials fee $8

(prices per session, preregistration required) Art stations will be set up for children and adults to make art together with Sue Hooper facilitating. Through the weeks there will be stations to move through for drawing, painting, collage and clay with a variety of mediums and tools to choice from. Come and discover the excitement in a working studio together inspired by new creative friends. Donation pot for materials.

A half day of exciting creativity with a result which is distinctive and all yours! Have you ever admired a tile you have seen identifying someone?s house, either the number or the name of it? Often brightly glazed and decorated, they give a house a really interesting 'presence'! In Mexico, where I spend time every year, these tiles are fun to look out for while walking, they identify but also say something about the family living there. First you will make a large tile in clay and then decorate it with whatever design you come up with, either different types of coloured glazes, or with relief carving in the surface of the clay. They will need to dry and then be fired and 'voila! A distinctive and beautiful original piece of art for your house. It deserves it! Materials extra

During this two-day seminar, healer/teacher Patricia Langer will illustrate how the human energy field develops as we grow from infancy through adulthood, demonstrating how we have become who we are from a vibrational to physical to psychological level.
Participants will learn how personal history and psychology are held in the energy field, and how emotional patterns and illnesses are formed, sustained, released and healed.
In addition, Patricia will demonstrate how she works at a vibrational and shamanic level. Questions are encouraged as they will lead Patricia into aspects of the material that are pertinent to individual concerns.
Payment is made directly to Patricia. Please see word document below to find out more and to register
$225 Cdn. before May 1, 2010; $250 Cdn. after May 1, 2010 Please bring your lunch. Snacks, tea and coffee provided

To learn more about Patricia visit her website at: http://www.patricialanger.com (note* We are getting a deal as you will see if you check out her site. The price is as below, not what is listed on her website)

Cost: $225 Cdn. before May 1, 2010; $250 Cdn. after May 1, 2010 Please bring your lunch. Snacks, tea and coffee provided
See PDF file below to find out more and to register or call
506 650-3333
http://artathooperstudios.com/pdf/Patricia_Langer_registration.pdf

This course will cover the basics of real jewellery making. We will be making a pendant and earring set cut out of sterling silver: teaching the students how to design, plan, saw, piece, file, sand and polish a pendant and earrings.
Tool use fee of $10 plus the materials are extra determined by Trudy at the end the the workshop dependent on what you have made...aprox. $25 to $60.

We will meet at the River Center for a half hour sketching intro and then enjoy a two hour paddle on the Kennebecasis River in the lovely Voyageur canoe with our captain, Rafe Hooper. Join us and take in the beauty, looking at the "art of nature" with discussion of light, color, form, perspective, line...We will enjoy a snack and sketching on the river with pencil and colored pencils. Materials included. Bring a sketchbook if you have one.

A bellymask is a plaster cast of a pregnant belly. It's an heirloom, a sculpture created right on your pregnant torso in a simple enjoyable process. Made of plaster gauze, it is an exact replica of your pregnant form. Plaster impregnated gauze is smoothed over your bare belly until it hardens and viola! As the casts need time to dry participants will explore ideas for the final decorating through painting and collage! Women are making bellymasks as a celebration and honoring of the profound experience of creating human life. If your bellymask is treated as a work of art and carefully displayed out of harms way, it will last forever. Susan Columbia is a mother of 4 who has been a practising midwife and artist for 3 decades and has been teaching and doing bodycasts for woman as a celebration of life. These body casts become treasured tactile memories of this exciting time for you both! Join Sue & helper Sue Hooper for a fabulous and fun workshop where you get to help each other make your own masks to decorate!

"To lead a creative life you must give up the fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

This may sound intimidating but it won't be. As an artist who has worked long hours on my own in my studio, I know the value of another person, who doesn't even have to be an artist, coming in and giving me insights into my work.
On this day students will work on a painting throughout the day and I will be available to look at it and give them some help, perhaps with colour, perspective, drawing whatever I feel it needs. We can also can discuss the idea and thought behind the work and from our library of art books look at how other painters have approached the subject matter of the piece.

The Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, has long been held in high esteem by many societies around the world. For all the joy and blessings of the summer, we will celebrate with the drum!  Join our circle to celebrate this day, in Hampton at Hooper Studios. Weather permitting we will be outside so bring a lawn chair, blanket or pillow if you'd like to. The spring season symbolizes birth and new life and summer signifies cultivation and fruitfulness.  All are welcome who honour the joy, wisdom and spirit of the solstice celebration. Bring a drum - or anything to shake & rattle!  We will gather at 6:30 and drumming starts at 7. Please respond if you are coming so we know how many to expect.  Call 506 650-3333

Welcome the summer solstice by creating a sculpture from your beautiful body. A bellymask is a plaster cast, an heirloom, a sculpture created right on your torso in a simple enjoyable process. Made of plaster gauze, it is an exact replica of your form. Sue will teach use how to work on each other smoothing plaster impregnated gauze over bare bellies until it hardens and viola! As the casts need time to dry participants will explore ideas for the final decorating through painting and collage! Women are making bellymasks as a celebration and honoring of themselves. If your bellymask is treated as a work of art and carefully displayed out of harms way, it will last forever. Susan Columbia is a mother of 4 who has been a practising midwife and artist for 3 decades and has been teaching and doing bodycasts for women as a celebration of life. These body casts become treasured tactile memories of this changing season and can bring self healing, connecting with yourself, unshielding and letting summer, the sun and the light in! Join Sue & helper Sue Hooper for a fabulous and fun workshop where you get to help each other make your own masks to decorate! We will be finishing our day with yoga and pilates teacher Paula Holder. People may or return in the eve for a drumming circle.

Practice the basic principles and techniques of wood sculpting while carving a useful and attractive wooden vessel.
Nature is constantly sculpting her landscape and its components with wind, sun, fire, water and decay. Using the shapes, textures and colours of the landscape as inspiration, join carver Philip Savage for a session in the basics of wood carving and finishing. Using mainly hand gouges and sandpaper we will work a basswood blank into a unique, sculptural bowl. Tools will be provided for all. However, for more selection and confidence with one's own, please bring any carving gouges, chisels, mallets, rasps, riflers, carving knives, and rotary tools that you may have. Materials $10

Young and old, come and join Sue for a fun afternoon. Artist Trading Cards, are individual art miniatures, which can be traded for free between people. We will explore a variety of mediums; marker, pencil, collage, paint, pastels, watercolor, to create small artworks. Color, composition, line, form, value and texture will be studied. The only standard requirement for an ATC is that its height and width measurements be 2.5" x 3.5". Materials fee included.

for ages 13-16

Join Sue for a fun afternoon creating Artist Trading Cards, individual art miniatures, which can be traded for free between people. We will explore a variety of mediums; marker, pencil, collage, paint, pastels, watercolor, to create small artworks. Color, composition, line, form, value and texture will be studied. The only standard requirement for an ATC is that its height and width measurements be 2.5" x 3.5". Materials fee $5

For those who love colour and fibre, dyeing your own yarn is a must. Come and join us to find out how to safely and permanently dye protein fibres; that is anything that somes from and animal, plus silk, nylon, and soy. Learn how to start from a plain skein of silk or wool, mix dye, create your own colours from the mix, and then paint your skein. We will also learn immersion dyeing, and there will be a demo with dyeing unspun sheep's wool as well. On Sunday we will wind up the dyed skeins and have a knitting and crochet lesson.
A skein of raw silk will be provided for your dye adventure, plus all dyes, container, sponges, etc. A handout will be provided covering all methods so you can continue your colour adventure at home. You will need to bring with you a pair of snug fitting rubber gloves, an apron, notebook and pen, and a small calculator. Material fee $15.

Join Denise, a self taught artist who, in the last forty years, has worked in fiber, at first, spinning and weaving, then Batik, and ultimately with direct painting on silk, her medium of choice for the last 30 of those years.
Learn to paint directly on silk fabric and create your own silk scarf with French Sennelier dyes. Steam, wash, iron your scarf and wear it home. The painting technique on silk somewhat resembles that used in water colour, but is much more fun. Materials fee determined by Denise dependent on what you make.

for ages 13-16

Everyone is creative! We will explore color, form and light in nature, and be inspired by celebrations of color and light from countries/cultures near and far. We will focus on acrylic painting and collage. Perspective, composition, line, form and texture will be explored through a variety of mediums. Materials $8

Join Sue in the mornings drawing and Kathy in the afternoons painting. Students will start with right brain exercises, moving into the creative side and developing basic drawing skills and observational abilities from working on subjects you can hold in the palm of your hand--sea shells, butterflies, animal bones, bird feathers, leaves and seed pods. Besides looking at nature up-close, students will also focus on the larger picture by observing and drawing in and outside, weather dependent. Students will work primarily in graphite pencil, colored pencils, and pen and ink. We will spend time considering composition, line, shape, form, texture and expression. Students will study the color wheel, mixing and blending colors and discover the wide range of use in acrylic painting from watercolor to palette knife painting. Participants will complete 3 to 6 small paintings on watercolor paper and canvas creating botanical studies and impressionistic, more expressive reactions to the subjects. Materials list supplied

Cold joined jewellery incorporating found objects, gemstones and mixed metals. This course builds on Level 1 that is offered spring 2010 and was offered last year.  To take this course, participants must have knowledge and skill of sawing, filing, sanding, and some experience with riveting. This weekend builds on the previous learned skills by working on advanced riveting of mixed metals, using tabs for cold joining, making jump rings, tube rivets, stamping and some stone setting using the fore mentioned techniques. Participants should bring any handtools, beads or found objects they would like to incorporate into their jewellery. Enthusiasm, imagination and good dexterity are definitely an asset! Trudy will supply tools & materials and determine cost 30 - 50 depending on participants choice of materials