Art Workshops in Guatemala
March 3 - 12, 2005

Instructor / Gayle Liman - gliman@silk.net
LOOM BEADING / A PAINTERLY APPROACH

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Have you ever wanted to use seed beads in a painterly way?? Learn to create new colors in your beadwork by placing various colored seedbeads side by side to create the visual effect of different colors. Fiber and bead artist GAYLE LIMAN will demonstrate the color techniques of pointillism, gradation, chroma bridges and simultaneous contrast by weaving with beads. Gayle begins by discussing color theory and students will create a grey scale, a color wheel and chroma bridge in preparation to complete their final project - a loom beaded painting. You will then draft a design on graph paper and draw in your color scheme with colored pencils. Gayle will help students learn to draw on your own artist within through exercises in visual imagery and the transfer of this imagery into art. Participants will also learn warping and wefting techniques, including how to make their own bead looms.

Gayle will accompany students to local Mayan markets. The 'huipiles' worn by indigenous women and other woven goods found there often initiate discussions on design and color, not to mention provide inspiration for your own new creations. Gayle draws on her wide experience in colors, design, weaving and beaded needle techniques to help students create from the colorful environment around them. This workshop is appropriate for both experienced and beginning bead artists.

Gayle is a nationally-recognized artist who has traveled and studied in Guatemala. Her fiber arts work is included in the Amazonia Exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute and other commisions hang nation-wide. She and her husband John owned Cosecha Design - a bead shop in Minneapolis - for over seven years where she taught a variety of beading classes, in addition to teaching at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts and individually gifted students. Gayle and her family now live in the beautiful Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada and are loving every minute of it's artistic influence and laid-back pace.

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ANTIGUA is any artist's dream location. It's a delightful small town with an international ambiance and features spectacular visuals, fabulous shopping, great little outdoor cafés and most importantly, warm hearted, welcoming people. A highlight of this workshop will be on Sunday, when you'll see 'alfombras' - carpets made of sawdust, flowers and pine needles that families design and create in the streets in front of their homes. You'll also have the opportunity to spend an afternoon in a nearby village with a local indigenous family, trying your hand at making tortillas, backstrap weaving and sampling a delicious typical meal of Pepian. Students will also visit the breathtakingly gorgeous western highlands of Guatemala, where they'll have the opportunity to see (and paint) colorful Mayan markets and wide vistas of volcanoes rising out of the early morning mists of LAKE ATITLAN.

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Total cost, including tuition, (but not art supplies) airfare from most major USA cities, lodging, hearty breakfasts, ground transporation and field trips is US $2045. For more info email: info@artguat.org or call (612) 825-0747 Or you may contact GAYLE directly at 250-769-7880 or via email: gliman@shaw.ca Our website is: http://www.artguat.org

Liza Fourre/Director
Art Workshops in Guatemala
4758 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55419-5304
612-825-0747 FAX: 612-825-6637
Website: http://www.artguat.org

Callejon Lopez # 22
Antigua Sacatepequez Guatemala
502-7832-6403 / FAX 502-7832-6925

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