Workshops for 2010

CorkStop Studios is planning new workshops for 2010. We are considering workshops in the following areas: Printing (digital, encaustic print, solar etching), Photography (how to take professional grade photos of your artwork), Encaustic, Abstract Collage.

If you have any suggestions, or would like to submit interest in a particular area of study, please contact us at info@corkstopstudios.com.

Once we have completed our planning, we will post the 2010 schedule here and on our website. 

Digital Arts - 2 Day workshop

Learn how to turn your photographs into a fine art digital print using the latest Adobe Photoshop CS4 application. This two-day workshop will focus on creating a “digital montage” by combining digital photographs and original watercolor washes into a digital file that is printed on large format Epson printers with archival-pigmented inks.

• When: Saturday November 21st and Sunday 22nd, 2009
• Time: 10.00am - 5.00pm
• Place: CorkStop Studios. 1250 Judith Lane, Arroyo Grande (off Corbett Canyon)
• Cost: $240 plus material fee $60
• Reservations: Info@CorkStopStudios.com or Tel: (805) 544-1681

Bring a bag lunch. Coffee, tea and light refreshments provided.

• Prerequisites: Laptop computer with Adobe Photoshop CS4 (free trial copies at Adobe.com)
• Intermediate experience with Photoshop application
• Artistic imagination

Roger Lee, who teaches in the Cuesta College Digital Art program, will teach the class.

Visit digitalmonoprint.blogspot.com for information about his activities.

Reservations: Email Info@CorkStopStudios.com or go to www.CorkStopstudios.com for more info.

CorkStop Studios welcomes Jamie Bruzenak as the studios new resident artist. Jamie was born in Long Beach California and moved to the Central Coast when she was just one year old. She received her BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute on San Francisco’s Russian Hill, and after a few years of city life, has made her way back to the beauty of the Central Coast where she continues to find creative inspiration.

Alternative Print Surfaces: Revealed. Workshop presented by Roger Lee

Stahl's latest print to come out the intaglio press.

Quiz: Can you tell what it is???

Ears on Art

Listen to Anne Stahl and Pacha on 'Ears on Art' a KCBX radio program.
http://kcbx.org/mp3archive/eoa090513.mp3

Meet the Press! Central Coast Magazine published a three page full feature article about the four CorkStop Studios artists: Anne Stahl, Carol Paquet, Roger Lee and Pacha.
http://ping.fm/hn7e6