An introduction to watercolor, with new techniques to be learned for the more experienced.  We will use the landscape of Berlin as a subject for practicing the subtle medium of watercolor.  Mira O’Brien often uses watercolor in her own work, and will guide the class through layering color and value, dry and wet brushstrokes, sketching with watercolor, and experimentation with new materials.

The class will meet every Sunday in a new location, and paint plein-air. In addition, the class will meet in the Berlin Drawing Room studio to focus on technique, which can then be applied in the field.

No experience required! This class is perfect for beginners as well as more advanced students who want to improve their skills or just discover interesting landscape locations with fellow painters!

June 28-July 15, 2012

6 meetings: 3 x on Thursday in the studio from 6-9 pm (June 28, July 5, 12) and 3 x on Sunday in the field from 12-3 pm (July 1, 8, 15).

About the instructor: Mira O’Brien, Artist/ Berlin Collective Director is from California and now based in Berlin. She received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from Yale. Her work has notably been exhibited in: the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, as a solo exhibition in Vierter Stock supported by a grant from the US Embassy in Berlin, La Viola Bank Gallery in NY, and in the historic former East- Berlin theatre the Volksbühne.

for more info or to join, please email berlincollective@gmail.com


Summer Watercolor Workshop: the Berlin Landscape

Dates: July 3-6 and July  9, 2012

Time: 12 – 4pm, 25 euros a day

Course Description: What does it mean to leave a trace? Or conversely, how can one re-trace evidence left behind? This workshop will explore the potential of traces as indexes, leading towards or away from experiences, actions, memories, or source material. We will explore various material techniques for tracing, and what tracing as a medium could mean. We will visit the historical archive of Das Bundesarchiv Berlin (www.bundesarchiv.de) and an abandoned urban “site” in order to experiment with both leaving traces and recording traces. This 7-day workshop will start with group exploration and research, and culminate in individual projects and a small exhibition. Final projects can be anything from drawing, collage, sound recording or installation. Some of the ideas for this Workshop are based in my own practice, including a collaborative project called “GP Site Explorations” at Golden Parachutes in Berlin and my current interest in tracing.

for more info or to join, email berlincollective@gmail.com

NEW Conceptual DRAWING COURSE: Leaving Traces: Conceptual and Material Approaches: Workshop with Artist: Mira O’Brien

his 2 day workshop will focus on the hands-on experimentation with the newly obsolete photographic process of working with instant film. Polaroid ceased production of its legendary instant film in 2008, leading to new digital phenomenons like the Instagram App available through mobile devices, to re-live the nostalgia associated with the rich look of Polaroid photographs. This course will allow students to rediscover analog photography in a digital world without the need of a darkroom. Within the workshop we will practice image lift/transfers, classic manipulation and other creative techniques with instant film.

for course breakdown and details:
http://berlincollective.de/study-abroad/workshops

to register or for more information, please email berlincollective@gmail.com

POLAROID INSTANT FILM PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

Painting Course/ Workshop with Artist in Berlin, July & August, 2012; Ulrike Dornis, Artist & Instructor

* Late Summer & Fall Painting Workshop< New Offer< August 30 – Sept. 15, 2012: Sign up now!

Note*Time schedule is flexible for this new course.

For more information, please contact us.

(No Previous Experience needed/ All Levels)

Workshop Dates:
July 2 – July 13 (Monday/ Tuesday 4 – 6 p.m.)
July 16/17 – plein-air  (Monday/ Tuesday, 4-5 hours per day)

July 16-20: studio

July 23-27: studio

August 7/8: Tuesday/ Wednesday: plein-air  (analysis of the independent work + 4-5 hours per day) twice a week from August 13 – July 31 (Monday/ Tuesday 4 – 6 p.m.)

Location: Berlin, To be announced upon registration
Materials: will be discussed in the first class and a list provided
Cost: 20 euros per class. Students must pay register fee.

For Registration and information, please email: berlincollective@gmail.com

Workshop Description: Watercolors (aquarelle), tempera, egg-tempera, dammar crystals, oil paint, acrylic, glaze, pigment, linseed oil, turpentine, white spirit, bees wax, varnishes, and more. You may of heard of all of these painting materials before. Do you want to know a bit more of it? No need to prime a canvas or piece of wood 7 times. You can start right away but maybe its still interesting to know a bit more about technique.

for specific course breakdown, please see: http://berlincollective.de/study-abroad/workshops

About the Artist/ Instructor:
Ulrike Dornis received her MFA from HGB Leipzig – Academy of Visual Arts. She has exhibited at ACC Weimar, GfZK Leipzig, Germanic National Museum Nuremberg, NGBK–Berlin, Halle 12 – Spinnereistraße, Leipzig and Altes Museum Neukoelln, Berlin. She has also exhibited internationally at the Goethe-Instituts of Cairo and Khartoum and National-Museum, Warszawa. She received several Grants and stipends ( DAAD, Culture-Fond of the State of Saxony, Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York, NY. Her recent exhibition is in the Kunstverein Uelzen. This summer she will also teach at Sommerakademie Dresden, Germany. Her work is collected by HypoVereinsbank,  Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Federal Art Collections Dresden), Verbundnetz Gas AG (vng-art) www.ulrikedornis.de

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