Developing a Class With Jamie Bollenbach, MFA May 2023
An invigorating, intellectually and emotionally engaging art instructor with a wide variety of experience with students of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, I work for both the substance of art skill development and the reaches of artistic philosophy, and I make it both challenging and fascinating to people in all kinds of fields from professional art to complete beginners. My classes show students how to observe both the real and imagined worlds with risk and tenderness of expression, to get comfortable with the limitless nature of our experienced lives, and to learn to express what is valuable and translatable about that new understanding. When you really learn how to see, and how to explore what you’ve come to know, you can make art that holds another person’s whole attention and make their world that much larger.
The next classes will be announced here, on my email lists, and on my social media outlets.
TUTORING, MENTORING AND CONSULTATION
I am available to help guide new and continuing art students and developing artists for help in your technical skills and expressive evolution with a mentorship style suited to all levels and many walks of live. I truly enjoy this process and would love to hear from you! $50 / 30 minutes, $85 / hour, sliding scale available on request.
Four consecutive Tuesdays
5:15pm-7:10pm
$195 ($95 Limited Income)
Using fun & challenging in-class studio assignments, this 4 session, all media course will teach artists effective practices for color design applicable to many types of artworks.
Color used well sets your heart on fire.
It is a language, a music of visual life, that works like tones, chords, and melodies. Designers and artists work with the visual grammar shared by human beings around the world, beginning with the ancient pigments 40,000 years ago, chalk, charcoal, red and yellow ochre, artists have used color to represent the world as it is seen and as a powerful form of symbolic expression
Our emotional, intellectual and spiritual associations with different colors, and with the artistic use of colors, can profoundly move us and change our emotional state.
With a foundation in the natural world and in the way the eye perceives color, the principles apply to everything from traditional painting to computer graphics to industrial design to culinary presentation, and will give students a good working knowledge of how to employ color effectively.
Email to reserve a spot or ask questions: JamieBollenbach@gmail.com …or drop in March 26th at 5:15 PM
If you’ve ever wanted to take a figure drawing class with professional artist and college-level experienced, MFA credentialed teacher, but without a long-term, expensive commitment, my ongoing live model classes offer full instruction, individualized attention, and time-proven techniques in a challenging but approachable and lighthearted atmosphere.
Ten years running every week and still the only class of its kind in Seattle: Tonight and every Thursday at the Classroom at Daniel Smith Seattle from 4-6, and every Wednesday from 5-7:30 at Artist & Craftsman in the U-DIstrict.
The classes are a steal of a price at $20/session, and $90 for a five class card.
And all you need to do is show up with a pencil and paper!
Wednesdays: 5 – 7:30 at the Classroom at Seattle Artist & Craftsman in the U District
Thursdays: 4-6 until the end of May at the Seattle Daniel Smith Lecture Hall. Instructed, Professional, Fun, for All levels.
(Ended) Drawing the Real World: A Re-beginning in Observational Drawing, Starts Tuesday February 26th at The Classroom at Artist & Craftsman in Seattle’s U District, 5:15 to 7:15. Four Tuesdays, $195/ $125 student, limited income.
(Recently held at the the Frye Art Museum, Seattle Washington.)
With your own eyes, no photos, no crutches: learn to draw by looking at the real world. Jamie Bollenbach will show you the basics of looking and seeing with tips and tricks for people who have never drawn or those who would like to get right with the fundamentals again. A friendly and informative approach to drawing that teaches:
- Retraining your eyes to see like a professional artist.
- Proportion – Using Simple Geometry in Art
- Doodling, Imagining, Daily casual sketching
- Measuring and Intuition
It’s all about regular, easy going sketching to explore the amazing richness of the world. A simple cloth, an old tree, a wine bottle – they can all be fascinating as you learn to pay careful attention to how they really look, and show you wonders that you may never have fully realized was there.
This one is just right for beginners- a 4 session general class on observation, sketching, basic proportion, and measurement as well as guidance on basic art practice. Held TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26th at The Classroom at Artist and Craftsman Supply, N 45th and 8th, Seattle.
SUPPLIES: Bring a pencil and a pad of paper for the first day. That’s it!
Mentorship and Personal Art Tutoring with Jamie Bollenbach, Weekdays, Ballard Studio. Full, personally engaged guidance for finding your own best path in Art, for professional development for working artists, for students, for anyone who wants to deepen and refine and renew their work. $60/hr, Ballard studio. Contact me for more information!
