Styrian Summer Art: Color symphonies & collages in acrylic | Eftichia Schlamadin
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Workshop - Description:
Courage to use color and the joy of experimenting are the focus of this workshop!
Whether thick or translucent: various applications of paint methods with brushes, spatulas or pouring color, layered and combined with different effects, create diverse surfaces and spaces.
Whether abstract landscapes or intuitive color symphonies: the exciting aspect of experimenting is the integration of effect areas into the overall picture, created through bitumen, shellac, stencil techniques, collage materials, chalks, charcoal, …
Under the expert guidance of the course instructor, engaging with the mystery of color and the various painting techniques to discover new, individual ways of independent painting is the goal of this workshop!
Here are photos from the Studio class 2025.
Please bring:
Acrylic paints of your choice (color selection see recommendation):
- Academy Acrylic: ivory, van dyke brown,
- Primacryl (Schmincke): madder
- Amsterdam: yellow-green, green-yellow
- System 3/Daeler&Rowney: genuine yellow, titanium white, cadmium red light, cadmium red dark, cadmium yellow light, cadmium yellow dark, Naples yellow, burnt umber, black, ultramarine, cobalt blue, indigo, wedgewood (blue), turquoise, light ochre
- Lascaux: light cobalt green, signal red
Brushes and painting materials
- At least 4 wide flat bristle brushes, from size 40
- At least 4 glazing brushes for acrylic painting, e.g. Fit for School, from size 40
- Water soluble pastel chalks (pastel chalks - JAXELL) for sketching and revising
- Black colored pencil, watercolor pencils (colors of your choice)
- Spray bottle (e.g. plant spray bottle, empty cleaning spray bottle)
- White gesso, fixative (spray fixative, e.g. universal fixative from Schmincke)
- FFP 2 mask (to be worn when using spray fixative and when extraordinary acrylic spray paints are brought along)
- Mixing palette (best old plastic plates, styrofoam vegetable trays...)
- Possibly work gloves (thin), kitchen roll
possibly hairdryer (for drying layers of paint) - Molding paste/light structure paste fine (1 kg)
- Palette knives / spatulas
- Acrylic binder for gluing collage materials
- At least 4 (cheap) food storage containers for paint leftovers/glazes or cups
- If "desired project", please bring motif templates!
Painting surfaces:
- Enough canvases (min. 6 pieces), large format – from at least 70x70, 80x100 – commercially white primed.
WARNING: necessary art material for effect design:
- Bitumen-containing liquid: CHARBONELL + pipette for applying this liquid (e.g. from eye drops, nose drops or from specialized retailers)
- Shellac flakes (red-brown, brown – not colorless!), 1 liter of spirit, 1 empty jam jar (with lid)
- Collage material: various types of paper (printed tissue paper, white tissue paper, corrugated cardboard, international newspapers…
- Stencils: if available: motif stencils (floral designs, text stencils, etc. e.g. orderable via Amazon!) bring along. Additionally, the course management will provide enough stencils for general use.
All materials are available here (also online):
Kaspar Harnisch www.kasparharnisch.at
ONLINE Art Supplies www.gerstaecker.at
Boesner www.boesner.
The Artist:
Eftichia Schlamadinger, born on October 15, 1968 in Graz
1997-2005: artistic training at the University of Tennessee/USA &
Knox County Community College/Tennessee, USA as well as in studio classes with renowned international artists
2006: Certificate/Diploma Cultural Management
2010: Diploma for small business academy; Beginning of teaching activities at international art academies
2011-2013: educational training at Karl-Franzens-University
- Eftichia has been working as a freelance artist, certified
- cultural manager and lecturer for painting & graphics at international art academies and art institutions since 2003.
- Leader of the Mobile Art School ArtCourses (www.artcourses.com),
- Co-founder of the summer art festival "Styrian summer art" and
- traveling for 20 years with enthusiastic participants on painting trips across Europe.
- Since 1994, active in exhibitions and participation in international artist competitions domestically and abroad (including New York, Montreal, Dubai, Luxembourg, Art-Week Berlin, Florence, international art fairs in Salzburg and Innsbruck);
- Organization and concept development of regional and international cultural/art projects.
About the offer
Meeting point
Nature Park Pöllauer Tal
Meeting point 9:30 AM in front of the Pöllau Tourist Office
Price information
465,- EUR
Contact and Arrival
Contact
Styrian Summer Art: Color symphonies & collages in acrylic | Eftichia Schlamadin
office@styriansummerart.at Website +43 664 54 04 289Operator
Styrian Summer ArtVerein Styrian Summer Art
Schloss 1,
8225 Pöllau bei Hartberg AT Plan route
