Saturday, March 21
9am - 11am
$45.00 Member……$60.00 Non-member
All materials provided
Location: Church of the Redeemer UCC, 500 W. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033
Please make checks payable to Hershey Area Art Association (HAAA) and mail to:
PO Box 654, Hershey, PA 17033
This workshop gives participants an introduction to watercolor pencil art. For those who have never done any art before or think they have no art ability, this workshop will show that anyone can produce a good work of art by just following a few basic directions. Workshop participants will select their own watercolor pencil project from dozens of sample pictures provided. The workshop will include: instruction, all watercolor pencil art supplies to use, and a 5x7 glass frame for the finished art work.
*** An optional take home watercolor pencil art kit is available pre-ordered for $25 that includes: set of 36 watercolor pencils, pack of watercolor paper, watercolor brushes, Discover Watercolor Pencil booklet, set of 10+ pictures for additional art, picture transfer paper, pen-stylus, pencil sharpener.
Student with framed watercolor pencil art.
Student with framed watercolor pencil art.
About Kurt Jarvis:
Kurt Jarvis, formerly a professional school social worker in New Jersey for forty years, is also an artist, porcelain clay sculpturer, crafter, woodcarver and other unique creations. He is also a writer who recently authored and illustrated two animal parable and Bible story books with over 400 art painting. He co-authored four devotional books and wrote several other inspirational books of prose and poetry books for First Responders, Health Care Workers, and on other genre.
Kurt has been an adjunct college professor in the US as well as other countries teaching leadership course at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Kurt and his wife, Judy, have traveled and worked “in the trenches” with children’s leaders and workers in over 50 countries including India, Indonesia, Africa in Ghana, Congo and South Africa, and in Pakistan, Ukraine, Hungary, Russia, South Korea, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Canada, England and other countries.
Kurt has enjoyed a lifetime of a variety of art and crafts, both teaching and his own work including ceramics, acrylic and watercolor. Recently he has specialized in doing and teaching Batik Watercolor Rice Paper art. In past years he developed his own style of porcelain miniature wildlife sculptures which were featured at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania for over 15 years. More recently his painting and illustrating art work has been featured at Brookgreen Gardens, SC, and in local art galleries and restaurants.
Currently Kurt teaches several styles of beginning watercolor and acrylic painting, beginning woodcarving and more recently specializes in Batik watercolor on rice paper painting.
Kurt and Judy recently relocated from Myrtle Beach, SC to be closer to family and now reside in Hummelstown, Pa. They have four adult children and eight grandchildren.