Toscana Studio Summer Fun

Toscana Studio will be offering a dynamic summer art/sculpture program for all ages. All classes are 4 consecutive days from 10-3 pm. Roughly 20 hours of studio fun of 2 and 3-D projects will be offered. Maximum of 7 students per session which allows for highly individual attention and individualized projects. Students will embark on a creative process of buuilding sculptures out of plaster or clay, rope or wire, or mold making techniques, which lend themselves to plaster and cement casting. All supplies included. Students need to bring a sack lunch. All artwork will be featurred in the Gallery at a Student Show at the end of the summer.
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Cyanotype Workshop for Artists

Explore another mark-making technique for paper. Learn about the alternative photographic process called cyanotype with award-winning artist rebecca bushner. Learn to create images on paper from a drawing, photographic negatives or from found objects by contact printing onto watercolor paper. Use cyanotype as another way to add depth and dimension to printmaking, drawings, and mixed media art.

Prerequisite: Rebecca prefers adults that have had art experience at the college level for this class. Minimum of 4 and a maximum of 7 students are needed for this workshop.

Cost: $80; includes a $25 materials fee, handouts, and emulsion to take home as well as light refreshments. You may bring a lunch if you wish.

Please send a check to Toscana Studio and Gallery by Sept. 10th. Your check holds your place in the workshop, so send it early.

Time: 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21st. (No sun date: Sunday, Sept. 8th.)

Location: Toscana Studio and Gallery in Oro Valley:
9040 N. Oracle, Suite A. Phone: 520-906-9224

Please bring an apron and if you are a photographer, you may bring large format negatives.

Toscana Studio Life Drawing Classes

• When: Every Friday
• Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
• Cost: $15
• Where: Toscana Studio and Gallery
• Map - Click Here

Call Linda at Toscana Studio to reserve a spot by the Thursday am, prior to each class. Come early to set up, and bring supplies. Some easels may be available.
Hope to see you there!

520-575-1445

Regular Classes

Classes are 2 1/2 hours long and have a maximum of 6 students per class, which allows for highly individualized instruction and personalized projects. Sessions range from 6-8 weeks long, meeting once a week., and each session, the students will display their art in the gallery for families and friends. They gallery has on-going shows of local and international artists. Stop by to see beautiful art finished and in progress.

Survey of Mold Making: Portraits of the Galaxy - $185.00
This class is a mold making class. Clay sculptures of faces in suns, stars, moons, comets etc will be created and a fiberglass and plaster mold will be constructed. The piece will be cast in cement and then painted. This is a perfect medium for Christmas gifts as many pieces can be cast in the molds just in time for the holidays. This is a very fun process and requires more supplies (hence the higher cost.)

String Fling - $150.00
Rope sculpture is a wild and crazy medium and lends itself to many fun images. Armatures are built out of wire first to plan the piece, and then different sizes of rope and string are dipped in a special sculpting medium which allows the rope to be plyable and sculptable. When the piece is dry the possibilities for paint finishes are endless. Students may select any image to work with.

Master Plaster - $165.00
This class explores the different processes used to build a plaster sculpture, from construction of an armature out of wire and wood , to modeling in wet plaster and sculpting in hard plaster. Hand and power tools will be used to sculpt a human figure, animal, or other object.

Sculpting in Clay - $165.00
The ever popular portrait class is a great class to begin with. Wire armatures are built and mounted on plaster bases, and the portrait is sculpted in clay. These pieces are sealed with a very strong sculpture medium and then painted to resemble a stone or metal. These can be either a self portrait or portrait of another person. These turn out beautiful and really capture the essence of the person.

It's a Relief! - $165.00
A relief sculpture is a flat three dimensional picture. Images are sculpted onto a flat slab of clay or built up with wire, paper and covered with plaster. Students may select to use clay or plaster.

Oil Painting - $185.00, all supplies included ($125.00 with own supplies)
For the beginning painter, this class offers individual instruction, including basic composition mapping, color theory and paint application for creating one still life and one landscape. There will be 6 classes, 2 1/2 hours long. For the advanced painter, the studio offers a place to improve techniques and continue creating. Each student is worked with on an individual basis.