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Abbey
Art
Works
Hello Alan!
Saint Joseph Abbey
75376 River Road
Saint Benedict, LA 70457
985-789-6889 985-327-1021
email: info@abbeyartworks.com
From all of us at the Coop!
We make art to let our souls know that we are listening.
Looking Back Fourteen Years... and at what's next.
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Portraiture
& Tricks of the Trade
Mondays November 6, 13, 20, 27
1pm-4pm $350 Lyn Hill Taylor
call /text 985-789-6889 or emailinfo@abbeyartworks.com

Our New Instructor -Blair Piras


Tuesdays Oct-Nov 9:30-Noon
To Register: send check made to Blair Piras.
Mail to: Blair Piras, 75469 River Road, Covington, La. 70435
Info: go to blairbarlowart.com




Copperplate Etching
Phillip Sage, Instructor


Call 985-317-4228 to register.
COLOR MIXING for ACRYLICS OR OILS
ADRIAN DECKBAR, INSTRUCTOR
Thursdays 1-4
September 21, 28, & October 5, 12
$325


Painting from the Soul
Robert Labranche, Instructor


To Register
call 985-502-1158
![]() Join the Guild!! | ![]() Jason Berry book signing. | ![]() Jason Berry, Author, speaker at 2019 Arts at the Abbey. | ![]() Exhibit by Nancy Tigert of her paintings of Fontainebleau Part shown at Arts at the Abbey Day 2019. | ![]() Nancy Tigert, artist exhibitor at 2019 Arts at the Abbey Day. Started at AAW as a beginner. | ![]() Phillip Sage, acknowledged Master Printmaker, instructs Br. Leo Franca, O.S.B. in the rudiments of the etching process. |
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![]() An opportunity for self-directed students to work in our studio without instruction. | ![]() On October 18, the feast day of St. Luke, of each year we celebrate the arts with Lecture & Luncheon. | ![]() Leonardo's Legacy Introduction Class student, Laura Robert, showed great courage and confidence in her first painting. The exercise was to use one set of complementary colors and show a light source. | ![]() Steadfast supporter of the arts and friend to all at Abbey Art Works. | ![]() Lyn Hill Taylor, AAW Artist is working on a series of charcoal, graphite, and etched images. | ![]() .."I shall not refrain....from offering a new form of contemplation." wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his 'Treatise on Painting'. |
![]() Finally a class where the truth about color is told! The nature, history, and use by painters of the colors we thought we understood. Mixing paint will never be difficult again. Legacy Plus Module 4 Starts May 16 | ![]() Theophilis Presbyter, ( first half of 12th century) Benedictine monk who wrote thr first important treatise on painting, glass-making, and metalwork. Theophilus was probably the pseudonym of the goldsmith monk Roger of Helmarshausen. ...credited with inventing oil painting. From: Theophilus Presbyter in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages » | ![]() AAW is for those who always wanted 'to give painting a try'. Perhaps now - as an avocation or a retirement activity, is the time/ | ![]() | ![]() Award winning pastellist teaches the details of representing wildlife and domestic animals. | ![]() Working primarily in acrylic paint, the student explores mark making. |
![]() Nationally recognized Master Pastelist offfers Landscape and Portrait Instruction year round. | ![]() Phillip Sage is known worldwide for his depictions of life in the city of New Orleans. teaches etching in AAW Printmaking Studio. | ![]() Drawing From the Soul | ![]() Some of the first students at AAW- dedicated, successful and appreciated! | ![]() Designed by Lyn Taylor with Abbot Justin's approval to use the Abbey's rose window and arch format to literally 'reflect' how the arts and the contemplative live compliment one another. | ![]() Beginners are a specialty! |
![]() We are on hand to greet and help you> | ![]() Students at work. | ![]() Our home on campus. | ![]() Founder and instructor ofthemNew Orleans Academy of Fine Art lecture at St Luke's Day. | ![]() | ![]() |
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![]() Join the Guild!! | ![]() Jason Berry book signing. | ![]() Jason Berry, Author, speaker at 2019 Arts at the Abbey. | ![]() Exhibit by Nancy Tigert of her paintings of Fontainebleau Part shown at Arts at the Abbey Day 2019. | ![]() Nancy Tigert, artist exhibitor at 2019 Arts at the Abbey Day. Started at AAW as a beginner. | ![]() Phillip Sage, acknowledged Master Printmaker, instructs Br. Leo Franca, O.S.B. in the rudiments of the etching process. |
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![]() An opportunity for self-directed students to work in our studio without instruction. | ![]() On October 18, the feast day of St. Luke, of each year we celebrate the arts with Lecture & Luncheon. | ![]() Leonardo's Legacy Introduction Class student, Laura Robert, showed great courage and confidence in her first painting. The exercise was to use one set of complementary colors and show a light source. | ![]() Steadfast supporter of the arts and friend to all at Abbey Art Works. | ![]() Lyn Hill Taylor, AAW Artist is working on a series of charcoal, graphite, and etched images. | ![]() .."I shall not refrain....from offering a new form of contemplation." wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his 'Treatise on Painting'. |
![]() Finally a class where the truth about color is told! The nature, history, and use by painters of the colors we thought we understood. Mixing paint will never be difficult again. Legacy Plus Module 4 Starts May 16 | ![]() Theophilis Presbyter, ( first half of 12th century) Benedictine monk who wrote thr first important treatise on painting, glass-making, and metalwork. Theophilus was probably the pseudonym of the goldsmith monk Roger of Helmarshausen. ...credited with inventing oil painting. From: Theophilus Presbyter in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages » | ![]() AAW is for those who always wanted 'to give painting a try'. Perhaps now - as an avocation or a retirement activity, is the time/ | ![]() | ![]() Award winning pastellist teaches the details of representing wildlife and domestic animals. | ![]() Working primarily in acrylic paint, the student explores mark making. |
![]() Nationally recognized Master Pastelist offfers Landscape and Portrait Instruction year round. | ![]() Phillip Sage is known worldwide for his depictions of life in the city of New Orleans. teaches etching in AAW Printmaking Studio. | ![]() Drawing From the Soul | ![]() Some of the first students at AAW- dedicated, successful and appreciated! | ![]() Designed by Lyn Taylor with Abbot Justin's approval to use the Abbey's rose window and arch format to literally 'reflect' how the arts and the contemplative live compliment one another. | ![]() Beginners are a specialty! |
![]() We are on hand to greet and help you> | ![]() Students at work. | ![]() Our home on campus. | ![]() |
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