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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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Portraiture
& Tricks of the Trade
Mondays In Spring 2024
1pm-4pm $350 Lyn Hill Taylor
call /text 985-789-6889 or emailinfo@abbeyartworks.com
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.
Underpainting Demo: Abbey Pond;
Lyn Taylor, Oct. 2023
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
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
Copperplate Etching
Phillip Sage, Instructor
Call 985-317-4228 to register.
COLOR MIXING for ACRYLICS OR OILS
ADRIAN DECKBAR, INSTRUCTOR
Thursdays 1-4 2024
BeginsJanuary 25
$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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