JAMES SPURLOCK WORKSHOPS
March 18, 19, and 20, 2010 - DeSoto
Presbyterian Church, 212 W. Pleasant Run Rd, DeSoto, Texas 75115
March 25, 26, and 27, 2o1o
Ellis County Art Museum, 501 W. Main, Waxahachie, Texas
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| Arizona Thunderhead - Oil, 48"x72" |
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| Landscape |
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In these workshops, James Spurlock will conduct a multimedia, multisubject, multilevel, exercise. These will not be a paint along, but a class where a painting that you are working on can be critiqued and you can be assisted in the best way to finish it?!!
James will do periodic mini demos of things that the artists in class are working on and having trouble with. The classes will be kept around the minimum so that each participant gets individual attention.
James will furnish an all around list of colors for participants. This list is one that most all artists can use to mix almost any color. Also, a list of other things that participants will need for the most well rounded seminar that they can take will be provided.
If it sounds like it is too much to handle for some of you artists, be assured that James had been teaching this way for many years. All of his classes are like that and the seminars are rarely specific unless the group just wants him to teach portraits or such. Even then he teaches multilevel and multimedia. James works in eleven mediums, so he has the experience in all of the ones most artists will use.
This is a workshop the watercolorist, oil painter, pastel artist, graphic artist, pencil artist, etc can get into and learn new techniques, skills and gain confidence to be the better painter you want to be.
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| "Teddy and a Little Lady", pastel, 20"x24" |
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| "A Brother's Love", Charcoal, 20"x24" |
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DETAILS ON HOW TO GET IN THE WORKSHOP
These workshop will start at 9:30 AM and end at 3:30 PM each day.
The cost will be $195.00 for members of the DeSoto Art League and the Ellis County Association of Artists. The cost for non-members will be $200.00.
A $100.00 deposit is required by March 1, 2010. The classes are limited to 10 students each.
Contact Sandy Reese at sandy@sandyreese.com or 972-217-1546 for information.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
James R.Spurlock has painted and sculpted his way to a very fulfilling niche for himself in the art world. Today he is a teacher as well as an artist who passes on his experience in art to many seminar and private students across the country. As a bronze sculptor, he has not limited himself to just life sized memorial busts but continues to sculpt bronzes that portray what life means to him and the clients that he 'speaks' for. Such is an artist's passion. Color, value, drawing and edges,..."art is just a series of adjustments...and Life is Art." James is mostly a self taught artist but one of the people he gives credit to for most of "the good stuff" he knows about his art is the consummate master artist of Carthage, Missouri, Bob Tommey. What a mentor this man and artist has been to many of "the big guys" in art today. He started about half of all the good art shows, art organizations and an art institute or two. He is one of the very best painters there is! Thank you, Bob Tommey, from all the artists you have helped down through the tough years to this very day!
It is the journey that is the meaningful part of life. I know, you've heard that from everyone that counts in your life and some who didn't. My journey is in learning how to learn. Art has helped me see that in all the other parts of my life. Looking back, God is the one responsible for me getting a chance at being an artist and learning that this world is one big school and our time in it is as long or as short, depending on ourselves, and that the quality of our lives depends on our decisions. I am glad that He gave me that chance, because, all in all, each question you get in life has a yes or no answer. My answer was yes. Here's hoping the things you see here are good for you. I am still learning and what I don't know is increasing in size. Any comments would be welcomed and honestly considered. Thank you. James R. Spurlock
P.S. Someone once asked me "Have you done this all
of your life?" I answered, "Not yet!"
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