Reserve Your Space in the March Workshop

SPEND A WEEKEND WITH MARILYN HUGHEY PHILLIS & CHERYL HARSHMAN AS YOUR GUIDES INTO CREATIVE REALMS

CELEBRATING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT:
a workshop of art and creativity

March 18-21, 2010
Sandscrest Retreat Center
Wheeling, WV

This workshop will emphasize the creative nature that is a part of each being. In the very act of creating, there develops a unique expressive image which creates the individual artistic statement. This can be a sacred and very personal act for each artist. That inner spiritual nature within each artist must be expressed in its truest form to create, through design and expressive energy, a work that has impact and also reaches the heart.

In the beautiful settings of trees and hills of Sandscrest, we can gather informally to search for nature's and our own message in our work. Some exercises will be suggested, but you are free to pursue your own search during the workshop. We seek to become better visual communicators through our paint, brushes, papers, and sharing of dreams and ideas.
Marilyn will share different approaches to your personal statement plus explorations of fluid acrylic paint and/or watercolor in ways of expressing nature's beauty.
All levels of experience accepted. A materials list will be sent on receipt of registration.

The Details
Cost for the workshops, from Thursday dinner through Sunday lunch, includes all food and lodging. Rooms are twin bedded with shared bathrooms. Sandscrest living has a comfortable, shabby chic feel and is not a resort. Plenty of parking is available for those driving and travelers by train, plane, or bus will be provided ground transport to Sandscrest. Class limited to 20 participants.


COST: Early bird discount before February 20, 2010 $495
After February 20, 2010 $525
Look for more info & updates at: www.violetpatch.blogspot.com
MARILYN HUGHEY PHILLIS
72 STAMM CIRCLE
WHEELING, WV 26003
304-242-6831
mhphillis@ yahoo.com

Marilyn Phillis has taught workshops across the nation for the last 35 years and is recognized as a teacher who nurtures and challenges her students through helping them to find their own personal statements. The inner spiritual creative element is a long cherished potential she finds as a hidden way of expression among many students and tries to help develop. Elected member of American Watercolor Society, AWS, and National Watercolor Society, NWS, Author of WATERMEDIA TECHNIQUES FOR RELEASING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT. In 2000, she was elected to two Halls of Fame: The Wheeling, WV Hall of Fame and the Kent, Ohio Hall of Fame.

More photos from the October Workshop

As you can tell from the photos, the skies cleared and we had a fabulous autumn weekend at the Sandscrest Retreat Center near Wheeling, WV. Marilyn Phillis jump started our workshop with some fun techniques, like painting with string, to loosen us up and help us jump right into paint. Cheryl demonstrated clay monoprinting and everyone got their hands muddy. What fun!

SAVE THE DATES!

I am still flying high after a superb weekend of making art with Marilyn Phillis and friends. Here I am pulling a clay monoprint while demonstrating this spontaneous technique.

We hold our art retreats at Sandscrest and the views, the food, and the shabby chic lodgings are a real treat.








We have dates for 2010, so put them on your calendar.



March 18-21, 2010

June 13-19, 2010

October Retreat Nears

The weather is changing and the leaves are turning colors. Our October retreat is coming up soon. We still have a few spaces waiting just for you. The weekend begins on Friday afternoon at 3 pm. Get settled in your room and spread out your art supplies. We will jump start your creative juices with a quick trick or two. Before dinner we will gather on the veranda and get to know the participants and from where they hail. Then we will move into the dining room where Sarah and Sandy will serve us the first of six delicious Sandscrest meals.

Saturday will be spent stretching personal boundaries. Marilyn will be available for suggestions, critiques, and nudges. Later in the day you can try your hand at clay monoprinting. This is an easy technique to learn and provides immediate satisfaction. As an intuitive process, it allows your inner artist to burst forth.

On Sunday we will have time to share our weekend's work before lunch and before leaving lovely Sandscrest.

Cost for the weekend, all inclusive is $395. A deposit of $100 is due by October 10. Checks can be made out and sent to
Marilyn Phillis, 72 Stamm Lane, Wheeling, WV 26003. For more information and a registration form email Cheryl at
cherylrharshman@gmail.com

Come join us!

AN EXCEPTIONAL ART RETREAT

Join Marilyn Hughey Phillis, AWS/NWS, and Cheryl Ryan Harshman for an unforgetable art retreat October 23-25, 2009 at Sandscrest Conference Center near Wheeling, WV. Enjoy gourmet meals, comfy accommodations, exquisite autumn scenery, intimate workshops and personal critiques.

Reward yourself. This is the workshop you need to boost your work to a higher level.

The weekend begins Friday evening with dinner in the lovely Sandscrest dining room. Cost for the weekend is all inclusive--food, lodging, and workshop-- $395.

For more information and details, contact Marilyn at mhphillis@yahoo.com

Schedule is forthcoming.

HOLD THE DATE!

Hold the date and join Marilyn Hughey Phillis for a magical weekend, October 23, 24, and 25, 2009. If you want to take your art to the next level...If you want to explore your intuition...If you want to celebrate your own creative spirit and voice, then this is the gift you should give yourself.

Held on the beautiful grounds of Sandscrest Conference and Retreat Center near Wheeling, WV, Celebrating the Creative Spirit promises to be wonderful! You will be treated to gourmet meals by chef Sarah Lydick; tucked in under cozy quilts in the shabby chic suites of the Sandscrest Victorian mansion; and treated to a massage by Sister Christine. All this and the solace of making your own art.


Marilyn and Cheryl Ryan Harshman have just concluded a week's retreat at Sandscrest to rave reviews. So important to the participants was this week, that we have agreed to meet again in October. Marilyn works with each artist individually to help them find their own inner voice, and she pushes them to try new things and go beyond their usual comfort level. Cheryl demonstrates clay monoprinting, a technique that is fun, easy, intuitive and successful for first timers. The combination of intense painting and playful clayprinting has allowed artists to break through painting roadblocks and reach higher levels in their work.

Spaces are limited to ensure private work with the instructors. To hold your place a non-refundable $100 deposit will be required. Payment in full is due October 15, 2009.



For more information, watch this blog and contact Marilyn's email:mhphillis@yahoo.com