PAINTING & DRAWING WORKSHOPS

ROBERT REGIS DVORAK
PAINTING & DRAWING WORKSHOPS

"I feel such a sense of self confidence whenever I attend one of your classes. Even more important is that wonderful sense of inner peace that you project."
Linda Logan, adult student

“I have observed thousands of teachers. I train teachers in colleges of education and for the United States Federal Government. Mr. Dvorak was the most organized, most interesting, and had the most academic content of any course I have ever observed.”

Laurie Phillips

Honolulu, Hawaii

CURRENT CLASS SCHEDULE–LIST OF WORKSHOPS–2023–2024

Please scroll below this schedule and for a detailed description of some of the workshops!

November 28, Decembr 5, 12, 19, 2023. Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. Tuesdays, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM, Making Faces, online. To register call: 650.321.3891 x: 106 or go on line to: https://pacificartleague.asapconnected.com

December 8, 12, 2023. Santa Cruz Art League. Sunday, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM, Creating Holiday Watercolor Gifts online. Call: 831.426.5787 or register on line. https://scal.org/online-classes.

January 5-12, 2024, WATERCOLOR HAWAII. To register for this workshop, send $799 to: R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822. Please include your email address and cell phone number. Call:916.391.5051 for more information. Details at :www.youcreate.com. Register now!

January 13, 2024, Hui No’eau Visual Art Center, Maui, HI, Saturday 10–4, Painting and Drawing Skies and Trees. Call: 808.572.6560 or register at: https://public.huinoeau.com/web/classdirect/1709

January 14, 2024, Hui No’eau Visual Art Center, Maui, HI, Saturday 10–4, The Magic of Watercolor. Call: 808.572.6560 or register at: https://public.huinoeau.com/web/classdirect/1710

January 14, 2024, Hui No’eau Visual Art Center, Maui, HI, Saturday 10–4, The Art of Drawog. Call: 808.572.6560 or register at: https://public.huinoeau.com/web/classdirect/1711

March 2-9, 2024. Trip to CUBA. Join me drawing and painting while immersing yourself in the art and culture of Cuba. Our trip has been planned by Paul Bardwell who has tkenn over 100 groups to Cuba and took us in 2016, Details at :www.youcreate.com. You may email paintallday@gmail.com, or call me on my cell phone number, 650-440-9848 if you need more information. You must be registered before January 1, 2024.

April 30–May 14, 2024. Trip to GREECE. We will be drawing and painting in Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Folegandros, and Crete. Details at :www.youcreate.com. You may email: paintallday@gmail.com, or call me on my cell phone number, 650-440-9848 if you need more information. You must be registered before January 1, 2024.

May 17–19, 2024. YOSEMITE DRAWING AND PAINTING, Yosemite Valley, CA. To register send $199. before January 1, 2024 and $249 after that date. Please include your email address and cell phone number. Send to: R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822. Call: 916.391.5051 for more information. Make your Yosemite accommodations reservation ASAP.

August 18, 19, 20, 2024. PAINTING THE COAST SIMPLY AND BEAUTIFULLY IN WATERCOLOR. Coastal sites between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, CA. Friday 1–5 PM, Saturday 10–4:30 PM, Sunday, 10 AM–4:30 PM. To register send $199, email address, and cell phone to: R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822. Call: 916.391.5051 for more information. Materials list will be emailed upon registration.

September 16, 2024. NATURAL BRIDGES WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP. Saturday, 10 AM–5 PM.

Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz, CA. To register send $99, email address and cell phone to: R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822. Call: 916.391.5051 for more information. Materials list will be emailed upon registration.

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS:

August 16, 17, 18, 2024. PAINTING THE COAST SIMPLY AND BEAUTIFULLY IN WATERCOLOR. Coastal sites between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, CA. Friday 1–5 PM, Saturday 10–4:30 PM, Sunday, 10 AM–4:30 PM. To register send $199, email address, and cell phone to: R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822. Call: 916.391.5051 for more information. Materials list will be emailed upon registration.

September 7, 2024. NATURAL BRIDGES WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP. Saturday, 10 AM–5 PM.

ALASKA CRUISE WATERCOLOR AND DRAWING WORKSHOP. TO BE ANNOUNCED

San Francisco to Alaska and back to San Francisco. Stops in Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Sitka, and Victoria, BC. You will book with a Cruise Line or register through your favorite travel booking service for the lowest price for a double occupancy cabin. Then send $800 ($80/day) for the 10 days of drawing and painting instruction both on board and on shore to: R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822. Can ll: 916.391.5051 for more information. Handout materials list will be emailed upon registration.

More to come!

Laurie Phillips

Honolulu, Hawaii

A short description of some workshops follows.

Note: The workshops below are not listed in order by date.

SPONTANEOUS WATERCOLOR

Watercolor painting is easy when you learn it one step at a time. This workshop will provide a sequence of easy exercises designed to save you months of trial and error frustration. If you want to find a way to express your creativity in your off hours, painting watercolors will delight and challenge you for years to come. Capitalizing on the spontaneous characteristic of watercolor, the exercises in these classes have been selected to give you the confidence you will need to continue painting watercolors on your own.

During this one day of demonstrations and hands-on exercises you will learn the magic of spontaneous watercolor painting; paint small abstract watercolors for gifts or greeting cards; learn brush techniques for quickly painting various subjects, how to paint trees, small figures, skies, still life subjects, and waterfalls; lay a foundation of skills so that you can continue to paint with pleasure. No matter what your skill or background, this workshop will have you painting watercolors and loving it in a matter of minutes.

"I very much enjoyed and appreciated your class (Spontaneous Watercolor) at Santa Rosa J.C. yesterday. Your class was informative, stimulating and a great deal of fun. I was impressed with how smoothly you worked with so many of us and took us through a great deal of material, all done with graceful manner and light touch, a smile and good humor. This was impressive due to our rather large number and the tremendous amount of material you covered. It truly was a six week course in one day and made easily grasped by your refined and finely tuned approach to the many aspects of watercolor - from paints themselves the quality and behavior of, to brushes and types, weights and characteristics of papers involved. The exercises and notes you gave us were so well thought out, covering just about any aspect of painting we wished to pursue....Your watercolor class was tremendously illuminating and I very much enjoy the immediacy of the medium. Thank you for such a wonderful class which was highlighted with your wisdom and philosophy."
S.L. Santa Rosa, CA

THE ONE MINUTE DRAWING CLASS

TO BE ANNOUNCED

This class is for you if you would like to be able to draw, think that you don't have any drawing talent, never took the time to learn how, haven't drawn for years and would like to start again or would like to be able to teach drawing with style.

Drawing is easy when you learn it one step at a time. This class will provide a sequence of easy one minute exercises designed to give you the kind of success that would please anyone's mother. If you are a person who sits in front of a computer screen all day or if you just yearn to find a way to express your creativity on your off hours, here is a class that will teach you how to draw and enjoy it, even with the busiest of schedules.

This series of short drawing exercises will insure pleasure and minimize disappointment. During this day, you will learn one minute drawing exercises, the greatest drawing secret in the world, drawing games for parties and picnics, how to sketch people in public places, drawing exercises for children and basic drawing techniques. This day of hands-on exercises is designed for fun. No matter what your skill or background, this class will have you drawing and loving it in a matter of minutes.

The class materials include The Pocket Drawing Book, by Robert Regis Dvorak, and 8.5” x 11” Drawing Paper and all drawing materials.

"What fun. You have wonderful "teacher energy" and a great way of making each person feel good about him/herself."
C.W., Kentfield, CA

DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR

Now you can draw without having to hide underneath the bed afterwards. You can draw without cold sweats, panic attacks, or feelings of imminent doom that may have plagued you before! The art of drawing is fun and easy to learn when you get beyond the fear of failure. When you join this easy unique drawing class, you will be in for some surprises. This enjoyable day should remove any drawing phobias you may have and open your creative expression for a life time of drawing pleasure.

Mr. Dvorak's book, Drawing Without Fear, outlines and illustrates the message in this workshop.

“Your class yesterday at DeAnza was so much fun and motivated me to start drawing every day. More importantly, it helped me think about how to defeat the fear and self-criticism that sometimes leads to being stuck in art and in life. My right brain really got a workout, especially doing the drawing with the inked string. I think I might be hooked on that.

You did a great job of making the class safe, keeping it fun, and keeping it moving so we got to experience lots of different ways of drawing. I really liked the variety and your great balance of instruction and practice time. Thanks very much for offering this class!” Julie Scott

PEN AND INK DRAWING THE EASY WAY

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Anyone can easily learn to draw in pen and ink. Learn how to practice drawing in pen and ink so that you can enjoy drawing anywhere any time.

Pen and ink drawing is immediate and permanent. When you eliminate erasing time you learn to draw with “confidence of line.” Ink line drawings won’t smudge when they rub together and they can be easily reproduced on a copy machine to illustrate greeting cards, holiday and birthday cards.

If you have always wanted to be able to draw with a pen, but were afraid to try because you couldn’t erase, here is your chance to discover how easy it can be. In this short three hour workshop you will learn how to do amazing drawings in pen and ink using different line weights, hatching, cross hatching, stippling, and ink wash. You will learn easy ways to draw people, trees, faces, architecture, and still life subjects. You will amaze your friends and family and most important yourself.

You will learn the bare bones of pen and ink drawing—the good habits that will give you hours of fun and increase your ability, every time you draw. No matter what your skill or background, this class will have you drawing with pen and ink and loving it in a matter of minutes.

PENCIL DRAWING THE EASY WAY-online

Anyone can easily learn to draw with a pencil. Don’t waste your time trying to learn to draw from a book, the slow way—practicing bad habits that will frustrate and disappoint you. If you have always wanted to be able to draw with a pencil, know that your lack of success is not because you don’t have talent or artistic ability…or because you don’t practice enough. Most people who try pencil drawing approach it the wrong way. In this online course you will learn how to do amazing drawings with a pencil in no time. You will amaze your friends and family and most important yourself. You will learn the bare bones of pencil drawing—the good habits that will give you hours of fun and increase your ability, every time you draw. No matter what your skill or background, this class will have you drawing with a pencil and loving it in a matter of minutes.

SPONTANEOUS WATERCOLOR

METHODS

You will discover new secrets that will increase your painting skill. You will learn at least 30 techniques that can improve your paintings like magic. You will be amazed at how easy this is.

EXPERIENTIAL DRAWING

To be announced

Want to learn to draw? To see? Or would you like to loosen up tight drawing habits? If you are a beginner, an artist, teacher, or a person who would like to explore new levels of your creativity, this workshop is for you. It is the perfect course for people who think that they have little talent for drawing, for they will discover that when they experience seeing, they can draw. You will learn: to draw from your experience, the greatest drawing secret in the world, to see without judgment, to draw quickly and effortlessly, the joy of relaxed concentration, and how to practice drawing for a lifetime of enjoyment.

This is a non-judgmental spontaneous drawing workshop. Many of the exercises are innovative and unusual and others employ right brain methods. This is a unique drawing course.

"...thank you so much for your class. I was the one in back that had never put pencil to paper . I'm even sharing the drawing upside down picture exercises with a friend. Yippee!...Many thanks!"
L.O., Santa Rosa, CA

MINDFUL DRAWING

TO BE ANNOUNCED

The purpose of the workshop is to guide you to experience new levels of conscious awareness through drawing. You will experience drawing as meditation--a relaxed, conscious, and aware state--optimum for the enjoyment of drawing. You will practice seeing with unconditional regard, connecting with your object of attention--person, place, or thing-- drawing deliberately, mindfully, dismantling fear, and drawing from your heart.

You will practice removing the barriers to your creative expression. Exercises will guide you to increased awareness, perception, and observation. You will learn to harmonize your inner and outer experience so that you can draw and create with total enjoyment. Those with no drawing skill as well as those who would like to move more deeply into their artistic processes are welcome.

Learn how to mindfully practice drawing in a state of restful alertness. Discover your creative power through the drawing process. Learn to draw any subject with careful observation and mindful attention. Improve your ability to concentrate and stay present as you draw. See and appreciate the marvel of life with a new and clear vision. Become more perceptive and connected to the world around you.

This workshop is for you if you endeavor to understand yourself as a creative person better, become more self-aware, and connect your inner and outer experience through the drawing process. Drawing offers unlimited opportunities for personal discovery, expression, and invention. This workshop only requires a willingness to direct your awareness and be attentive to your experience.

TRAVEL DRAWING AND PAINTING

Eze, South of France, Panoramic Watercolor in my Artist’s Drawing Pad 6X9.

Make your next trip the most rewarding of all. Take a sketchbook with you and take a few minutes to make some fine quick sketches and watercolors. Drawing and painting while traveling is fun and will increase your perception, recall, and enjoyment. Traveling with a sketch book can also open doors to interesting adventures and new friendships. You will return home with priceless memories. This class will show you how to: quickly draw people, architecture, water, trees, and landscape subjects; simplify your material to capture the essence; prepare, pack, what materials to bring, what to leave at home; be comfortable and relaxed sketching and painting in public; draw and paint in cafes, restaurants, on the street, on a cruise, on airplanes and ferry boats; draw or paint in comfort in any public place.

"As a teacher myself, I can confidently say that Robert is an outstanding teacher. Many painters are good painters but not good teachers. Robert is both." Sophie Torrance, Phd.

Laurie Phillips

Honolulu, Hawaii

DRAWING WITH IMAGINATION

The primary objective of this workshop is to foster creativity and innovation in the realm of artistic expression. Participants will embark on a journey to explore, experiment, and cultivate the art of producing exceptional drawings fueled by their imagination. Throughout the course, attendees will rekindle their childlike curiosity, challenge established conventions, synthesize diverse concepts, attune to their intuitive senses, embrace spontaneity, embrace the possibility of setbacks, and liberate themselves from the constraints of fear.

In summary, this workshop is designed to cultivate and enhance imaginative and creative skills. It will encompass a comprehensive exploration of various techniques for drawing from one's imagination, including distortion, abstraction, exaggeration, unconventional amalgamations, the fusion of disparate elements, drawing from memory, rendering imaginative interpretations of everyday objects, and translating mental imagery into visual artistry.

Robert will make this fun and exciting. Along with his enthusiasm, and these new approaches, you will create spontaneous drawings with imagination that may surprise you.

Handout materials will show examples of the exercises and you will watch as Robert demonstrates and draw along step by step as he guides you to new creative ideas. Robert will look at everyone’s creative drawings and give valuable feedback. You will gain from this workshop a new enthusiasm for creative drawing with imagination that you can use for a lifetime of drawing enjoyment!

PAINTING PANORAMIC WATERCOLORS

Novemger 5, 2023. Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. Sunday, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM, Painting Panoramas Simply and Beautifully in Watercolor. To register call: 650.321.3891 x: 106 or go on line to: https://pacificartleague.asapconnected.com

Capture the essence of California's breathtaking landscapes through the medium of watercolor. This workshop is designed to ignite your passion for painting expansive California panoramas. It is tailored for individuals who:

Possess some prior experience with watercolor painting, regardless of the extent.
Aspire to master the art of successfully depicting any landscape panorama using watercolors.
Seek to acquire techniques that elevate the beauty of their landscape compositions.
Have a specific interest in painting California landscape panoramas with watercolors.
Our on-site workshop offers a structured series of painting exercises, meticulously curated to enhance your proficiency in painting diverse landscapes in the elongated horizontal format. The course will emphasize the spontaneous portrayal of various elements, including skies, mountains, deserts, coastal waves and rock formations, as well as a variety of trees and more. Special attention will be given to panoramic composition, the art of spontaneity, thoughtful color selection for both skies and landforms.

Furthermore, the workshop will cover essential topics such as layout design, field studies, color blending and mixing techniques to capture light, shadow, and shading, brushwork methods, graded washes, managing lost and found edges, and much more. Regardless of your prior instruction, this workshop is designed to enable you to effortlessly and beautifully depict new panoramic landscapes with confidence and skill.

PAINTING ABSTRACT WATERCOLORS

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Have fun creating rich, colorful, abstract paintings. In this creative workshop you will learn the most important criteria for any successful painting. This could be the most valuable watercolor workshop you will ever take. It will make you see all your painting endeavors as abstract compositions, full of energy, drama, light, and color. Using a variety of creative watercolor techniques you will paint beautiful abstract paintings. You will learn:

•how to create new ideas for paintings
•new watercolor painting techniques
•exciting ways to experiment with watercolor
•a variety of composition secrets
•techniques to create patterns and textures
•masking, brush techniques, and alternatives to the brush
•the correct use of sprays and spatters to create colorful textures.

You will watch step-by-step painting demonstrations, try them, and come away from the class with many new ways to create your own watercolor paintings. Beginning students as well as those with previous watercolor instruction will find this class new, valuable and exciting.

Through a series of easy exercises you will discover yourself painting beautiful abstract paintings by trusting your own ability to create. Painting in watercolor is easy when you seek opportunities for personal discovery, expression, and invention. You will learn and enjoy the experience of watercolor painting in a relaxed painting environment. You will practice, connecting with your imagination and painting deliberately.

Bring your watercolor painting materials. A materials fee of will be collected at the beginning of the class.

PAINTING FLOWERS SIMPLY AND BEAUTIFULLY IN WATERCOLOR

This one day hands on workshop will provide a sequence of easy exercises designed to give you skill and success painting flowers. The class will focus on the spontaneous representation of flowers rather than an attempt at careful realistic representation. There will be a strong emphasis on the use of white space and composition. The workshop will also cover, layout, color mixing and blending for light, shade and shadow, brush techniques, graded washes, lost and found edges and more. No matter how much previous instruction you have had, this class will have you painting flowers with confidence.

DRAWING FLOWERS SIMPLY AND BEAUTIFULLY

October 14, 2022. Painting and Drawing Flowers Simply and Beautifully. 9 AM–4 PM. $140. To register call: 310-742-3192, or send check to: Destination Art, 1815 West 213th Street, Suite 135, Torrance, CA 90501, or register online at; https://portal.destination-art.net/Education/CourseReg.aspx?CatNum=DAW10142RD

This hands on workshop will provide a sequence of easy exercises designed to give you skill and success drawing flowers. The class will focus on the spontaneous representation of flowers rather than an attempt at careful realistic representation. There will be a strong emphasis on the use of line weights, shade and shadow, white space and composition. The workshop will also cover, graded washes, lost and found edges and more. No matter how much previous instruction you have had, this class will have you drawing flowers with confidence.

URBAN SKETCHING

To Be Announced

This will be a full day of learning to draw on site. Sketch-crawling is now being practiced worldwide. This enjoyable day should prepare you for a lifetime of travel drawing. It will give you great ideas for improving and practicing your drawing skills in public–anytime you travel in an urban envirnoment. The day will be spent practicing drawing outdoors. Bring your lunch to the class. The less time for lunch the more time we will have to practice our sketch-crawling skills. We will meet and then walk to different locations. We will have plenty of subjects to draw.

Be sure to bring our watercolords if you would like to add color to your drawings. Please bring a stool or something to sit on. We will use my book, The Pocket Drawing Book, as a guide to the exercises presented. You will learn:

•short and easy practice exercises
•different ways to draw in comfort in a public place
•ways to add watercolor to your drawings
•how to draw quickly and easily with confidence
•how to draw people, faces, places, trees and other things.
•simple and impressive drawing techniques

This day of hands-on drawing is designed to get you drawing and loving it. No matter what your skill or background, this class will have you drawing with success in a matter of minutes.

DRAWING PORTRAITS THE EASY WAY

TO BE ANNOUNCED

You can easily learn to draw a portrait. Don’t waste your time trying to learn to draw portraits from a book, or an expensive on-line course, the slow way—practicing bad habits that will frustrate and disappoint you.

If you have always wanted to be able to draw portraits of friends and family, know that your lack of success is not because you don’t have talent or artistic ability, or because you don’t practice enough. Most people who try to draw faces practice the wrong way. In this workshop you will learn how to do amazing drawings of faces. You will amaze your friends and family and most important yourself.

You will learn the bare bones of portrait drawing—the good habits that will give you hours of fun and increase your ability, every time you draw. You will learn:

easy to remember portrait proportions,
how to take advantage of lighting so that your faces don’t look flat,
how to place the face on the paper
how to make your drawing quickly without a lot of fuss
where to begin and how to proceed
what media to use for the best results

No matter what your skill or background, this workshop will have you drawing faces and loving it.

PORTRAITS IN WATERCOLOR THE EASY WAY

To Be Announced

Gain confidence in painting watercolor faces with pencil line contours. View and discuss angles of the head and hand position, then learn numerous ways to compose a portrait. Through demonstration and painting from observation, you will gain skill in rendering accurate proportions and form in watercolor. Learn what colors to use and when and how to apply them.

THE MAGIC OF WATERCOLOR

January 14, 2024, Hui No’eau Visual Art Center, Maui, HI, Saturday 10–4, The Magic of Watercolor. Call: 808.572.6560 or register at: https://public.huinoeau.com/web/classdirect/1710

In this special one day watercolor workshop you will free your spirit and unleash your creativity. Through a series of easy exercises, you will discover how to paint watercolors simply and beautifully. We will review all the basics and more advanced techniques will be presented. Painting in watercolor is fun. You will find many new opportunities for personal discovery, expression, and invention. You will enjoy the experience of painting watercolors in a relaxed safe environment for creative expression. You will learn to paint without expectations, connect with your imagination, paint deliberately, with good painting habits.

PAINTING COASTAL WAVES, ROCKS AND TREES

Learn how to paint in watercolor waves, rocks and trees in coastal landscapes. Have you ever marveled at the magic of waves and rocks in painting? It is not difficult to learn how to paint these on your own. You will learn to paint dynamic ocean waves, ocean spray, coastal rocks dripping with water, mist, waves breaking, tubes, coastal trees, sand, and maybe some surfers in watercolor. In this fun and lively workshop, you will learn to discover and embrace your creative ability as you paint these subjects. You will watch Robert demonstrate these subjects and you will paint along with Robert, step by step as he explains each exercise. Robert will look at each individuals pantings and bring to this class the energy and enthusiasm you have experienced in all his workshops. You will gain from this workshop an enthusiasm and confidence to paint coastal landscapes.

ANCIENT SECRETS--THE FIVE TIBETAN RITES
To Be Announced

Hidden in the remote regions of the Himalayan mountains lie the secrets for longevity, vitality and youth. There, generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of yoga-like exercises with mystical, age reversing properties. Taking just eight minutes a day to perform, the benefits of these rites can include increased energy, weight loss, new hair growth, better memory, arthritis relief, better digestion, improved balance and sleep, lower blood pressure, renewed sexual energy, perfect health and just feeling and looking younger. As outlined in Peter Kelder's book Ancient Secrets Of The Fountain of Youth, you will learn how and when to perform the exercises, why they work and how to develop a foundation for daily practice. This workshop also includes suggestions for food combining and meditation. It's easy, it's fast and it works! Class includes handouts materials and a reminder card.

PAINTING THE FIGURE SIMPLY AND BEAUTIFULLY IN WATERCOLOR

Learn the art of painting the figure in watercolor. The class will be directed to the spontaneous representation of the male and female figure rather than an attempt at careful realistic representation. There will be a strong emphasis on the use of white space and composition. Color mixing from a limited palette, light, shade, and shadow, brush techniques, graded washes, foreshortening, facial details, lost and found edges, and proportion will be demonstrated. Students will work from professional models. No matter how much previous instruction you have had, this class will have you seeing and painting the figure in a new way. This class is for you if you: Have had some previous watercolor painting instruction. Would like to learn some easy techniques for painting the figure quickly. Want more confidence and skill painting figures. Would like to be able to paint the figure in watercolor. Want to paint the figure loose and free.

THE ART OF SELLING ART

To Be Announced

Selling art, your own or other artists', is easy when you know how. This workshop will cover prospecting for clients, developing rapport, what questions to ask, portfolios, slides, presentations, referrals, pre-planning sales meetings, emotions--how to use them--closing secrets, what words to use, artist's statements, pricing, and art gallery selling. This is a comprehensive sales program oriented to the art dealer, an art representative, or an artist. Be prepared for an exciting, fun-filled day of lively lecture and in-class games. You will learn how to sell art to individual clients, collectors, and corporations. Mr. Dvorak will demonstrate what works and what doesn't work so that by the end of the training, you can begin selling--and prospering--immediately with confidence and self-assurance.

Robert Regis Dvorak, FAAR, a professional speaker on the subject of creative selling. He is the author of the book, Selling Art 101.

“Just a note to say thanks for all your great advice and sharing of life experience. I attended your class The Art of Selling Art the other night at the JC in Santa Rosa. You were right about it being life-changing. I was a little skeptical when you said that but I've found myself thinking about interactions differently and less rigidly since hearing what you have to say and reading your book. For example, I just sent a note to a potential boss (we are in the interview stage) offering my graphic design services for his backlog in a freelance or temp-to-hire capacity while he makes his decision. I NEVER would have done that before. My attitude now even has flickers of "hey it's fine either way" which is frankly a revelation. Also, listening listening listening.” Jessica B.

--Jessica Back

Santa Rosa, CA

MASTERING THE WHITE PAPER IN WATERCOLOR

To Be Announced

Follow in the footsteps of John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer as you learn, through a series of carefully crafted exercises, how to make your watercolors come alive with the light of the white. The transparency of watercolor demands that you work from white to dark. You will learn that where we leave the paper clean and white is just as important as where we put color. Light in a painting is expressed through values and contrasts— the more brilliant the light, the greater the contrast. Contrasts make your painting come alive. Whether you are a beginner or a more advanced painter, you will benefit from this workshop. Mastering the white paper is one of the most important skills in watercolor painting.

Robert Regis Dvorak, FAAR, has been making drawing and painting fun and easy to learn for 35 years. He is a professional speaker on all subjects of creativity in business and education. He is also an accomplished watercolor artist and oil painter. He has authored six books on drawing: Drawing without Fear, The Pocket Drawing Book, The Magic of Drawing, Experiential Drawing, The Practice of Drawing as Meditation, and Travel Drawing and Painting. He also wrote: Selling Art 101. He has produced a number of animated films featured in festivals in the USA, Europe, and Australia. He has worked as an architectural designer and is a former professor of architecture at the universities of Oregon and California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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For information on fees and availability telephone the institution sponsoring the workshop.
To e-mail Mr. Dvorak: info@youcreate.com
To register for Robert Dvorak’s Studio workshops send check, email address and phone to:
R. R. Dvorak, 5825 Annrud Way, Sacramento, CA 95822
For more information call:
1-916.391.5051
or email: classes@youcreate.com
See also Special Studio Classes