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2024Our 15th Year!

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Abbey Art Works

 

We make art to let our souls know that we are listening.
Saint Joseph Abbey
75376 River Road
Saint Benedict, LA 70457
985-789-6889   985-327-1021
email: info@abbeyartworks.com

copyright Abbey Art Works 2023

 

Looking Back Fifteen Years... and at what's next.

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DateChange

Portraiture
& Tricks of the Trade

Mondays In Spring 2024
1pm-4pm   $350    Lyn Hill Taylor


 
call /text 985-789-6889  or emailinfo@abbeyartworks.com    

Legacyto landscape

All About Plein
Air Painting

At Abbey Art Works we have been painting bayou, river, pond, and fields full of splendid Abbey Campus skies since 2016.

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Underpainting Demo: Abbey Pond;
Lyn Taylor, Oct. 2023

Landscape Paintingin Oils

Discover the Beauty of Tonalism 

This is a proven, well-rounded approach to preparing beginners or inspiring the experieced  to enjoy the challenge and pleasure of working from nature.

 

Date: Next Session

            January 8, 15, 22, 29.

When:  Mondays 1-4:00 pm

Where:  AAW Studio 

Instructor:  Lyn Hill Taylor 

Tuition: $250 due on the first Monday of each month. Ongoing.

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Or email info@abbeyartworks.com
            (985-789-6889

Working from Life 
Blair Piras

To Register: send check made to Blair Piras.
Mail to:  Blair Piras, 75469 River Road, Covington, La. 70435
Info: go to blairbarlowart.com

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Leonardo's
Legacy  Painting, Science, &
                             the Life of the Soul

Based on  Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting and modern neuroscience's understanding of the human visual system, this course is
recommended to anyone new to our program. 

When -  Thursdays Jan 4, 11, & 18, 2024
Time - Jan 4 & 11 - 12:30pm -3:30pm
           Jan 18  Full Day 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Fee- $350 on registration

Abbey Art Work's Signature Course is offered just twice a year. 

Explore simultaneous contrast, explore space and get to know what you can do.

DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS
CHRYL CORIZZO, INSTRUCTOR

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Copperplate Etching
Phillip Sage, Instructor

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Call  985-317-4228 to register.

COLOR MIXING for ACRYLICS OR OILS
ADRIAN DECKBAR, INSTRUCTOR

Thursdays 1-4  2024 
BeginsJanuary 25
$325

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Painting from the Soul
Robert Labranche, Instructor

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To Register
call 985-502-1158

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Join the St. Luke Guild.

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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.

Open Studio Mondays

An opportunity for self-directed students to work in our studio without instruction.

St. Luke's Day 2017

On October 18, the feast day of St. Luke, of each year we celebrate the arts with Lecture & Luncheon.

Learn to Let go & Open Up

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.

Abbot Justin Brown, O.S.B.

Steadfast supporter of the arts and friend to all at Abbey Art Works.

Painting As Symbolic Narrative

Lyn Hill Taylor, AAW Artist is working on a series of charcoal, graphite, and etched images.

Leonardo's Legacy

.."I shall not refrain....from offering a new form of contemplation." wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his 'Treatise on Painting'.

Color Your World

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

Benedictine Monk

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 Students at Their Easels

AAW is for those who always wanted 'to give painting a try'. Perhaps now - as an avocation or a retirement activity, is the time/

Lyn Taylor, Leonardo's Legacy
Carolyn LeBlanc, Wildlife Art

Award winning pastellist teaches the details of representing wildlife and domestic animals.

Working primarily in acrylic paint, the student explores mark making.

Alan Flattmann, Instructor

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.

Robert Labranche, Instructor

Drawing From the Soul

The AAW Pioneers

Some of the first students at AAW- dedicated, successful and appreciated!

AAW Rose Window

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.

Auzeklis Ozols

Founder and instructor ofthemNew Orleans Academy of Fine Art lecture at St Luke's Day.

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Saint Joseph Abbey
75376 River Road
Saint Benedict, LA 70457
985-789-6889   985-327-1021
email: info@abbeyartworks.com

copyright Abbey Art Works 2023

 
 
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Join the St. Luke Guild.

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.

Open Studio Mondays

An opportunity for self-directed students to work in our studio without instruction.

St. Luke's Day 2017

On October 18, the feast day of St. Luke, of each year we celebrate the arts with Lecture & Luncheon.

Learn to Let go & Open Up

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.

Abbot Justin Brown, O.S.B.

Steadfast supporter of the arts and friend to all at Abbey Art Works.

Painting As Symbolic Narrative

Lyn Hill Taylor, AAW Artist is working on a series of charcoal, graphite, and etched images.

Leonardo's Legacy

.."I shall not refrain....from offering a new form of contemplation." wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his 'Treatise on Painting'.

Color Your World

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

Benedictine Monk

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 Students at Their Easels

AAW is for those who always wanted 'to give painting a try'. Perhaps now - as an avocation or a retirement activity, is the time/

Lyn Taylor, Leonardo's Legacy
Carolyn LeBlanc, Wildlife Art

Award winning pastellist teaches the details of representing wildlife and domestic animals.

Working primarily in acrylic paint, the student explores mark making.

Alan Flattmann, Instructor

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.

Robert Labranche, Instructor

Drawing From the Soul

The AAW Pioneers

Some of the first students at AAW- dedicated, successful and appreciated!

AAW Rose Window

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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