If you have already tackled one of the Introduction to Basic Strokes of Rosemaling classes with Lise (Telemark or Hallingdal Style), we welcome you back with fun sessions to continue your journey and learn basic stroke work with a new pattern and project! Join us for more S and C scroll painting. Keep on dipping your brush in the paint and toe in the waters with other rosemalers. Develop your technique further and meet new friends. The class will include demonstrations and plenty of hands-on practice. Students will be provided with all the supplies and materials needed to practice strokes and complete a project on a wooden board, including brushes, paints, medium, the project board, sandpaper, and a palette knife. The class will be taught using acrylic paint.

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This is a revised brush stroke class. Learn the anatomy of a brush, brush care, types of brushes and the brush stokes they can make. We will dive into how to load a round, flat, filbert and liner brush for “stroke work”; execute various brush strokes such as comma, teardrop, S, crescent, dipped crescent, spiral, circle stroke as well a dots.

This class is for anyone wanting to learn more about what a brush can do and is encouraged for anyone who is interested in taking classes in the beautiful Norwegian decorative painting tradition called Rosemaling.

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The Rosemaling style of Os is from the western coast of Norway. This style is known for its fanciful flowers and bright colors. The focus of this class, will be on a project that includes Os scrolls and flowers. It will also cover some design concepts such as how you can change a design, design elements, colors or embellishments. Beginning students who have taken a brush techniques class where they learned basic brush strokes will find it helpful. Students can paint with acrylic or oil paint.

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The Os style of rosemaling developed in the west coast of Norway about 1875. Annanias Tweit perfected this style and created a workshop at his farm where he and his apprentices painted tiner, sending baskets, trays, chairs, ale bowls, and delightful small boxes in the bright Os Style. They were sold in the Husflidens of Bergen and even now you can find small antique boxes from that period. We will be painting a modern version of those Os boxes, which can be used for all sorts of treasures. The background color is black, which shows off the bright colors of the Os style so well. The top and three sides are painted, and also the inside of the lid. You could add a name on the inside lid, and historically, these boxes were often given as gifts to young girls. This box represents a gallery of flower styles that you can adapt to other projects.

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Class is designed for all levels of painters including those who have not painted before. More advanced painters will be encouraged to adjust patterns or paint their own design with instructor assistance. We cover brush strokes, paint consistency, design principles, scrolls, flowers, color, borders and embellishments and how to most effectively fill a space. Students may paint with acrylic or oil paint. Supply list available online and in class confirmation email.

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I first saw Persgard’s work on a Vesterheim folk art tour. There was trunk of his on the second floor of a farm building. The colors were rich and vibrant and he seemed to love huge black dots at the end of his linework.

Together we will explore the work of Sevat Uppheim through looking at pictures of his known works, sketching elements of his style, working out his colors, doing a bit of painting, and marveling at his creative genius and extraordinary detail work.

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Join Marilee Mortenson as she teaches about spacing of letters and words: why it matters, how letter shapes play a role, and how knowing this can improve your lettering.  This is a skill-building workshop; it will not result in a completed project.

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Welcome! (Or should we say Velkommen?) Come try your hand at the Telemark style of rosemaling and make a welcome sign to greet visitors to your home! In this class that includes demonstration and plenty of hands-on practice, you will have the opportunity to choose between making a sign reading "Welcome" in English or the Norwegian "Velkommen." This class is designed for beginning painters with previous experience, as well as more advanced painters and will be taught using acrylic paints.

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Join Vesterheim Gold Medalist Patti Goke to paint a wooden plaque in the Hallingdal style of rosemaling as painted by Sevat Uppheim. Uppheim only painted rosemaling for 10 years, but is considered one of the best early rosemalers from Hallingdal.

The class will include demonstrations and plenty of hands-on practice as well as time for questions. Students will be provided with all the supplies and materials needed to complete the project. Rosemaling is an iconic and traditional art form, and this class will explore the stylistic elements of Uppheim's Hallingdal-style rosemaling. The class will be taught using oil paints.

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Viksdalmaling is not fanciful with Telemark scrolls and imaginative flowers but instead with twisted tongues, elongated teardrops, moons and circles, and plenty of crosses. Viksdalmaling is rich in symbolism and history, yet perhaps on the verge of extinction again. This presentation is about history, trade, design, color, and symbolism in Viksdal rosemaling. Viksdal design is about the clash between Viking ideology and Christianity. Come watch and learn about this little-known fascinating style of rosemaling.

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Challenge your rosemaling skills and hone your linework skills by exploring your freehand painting abilities in a fun Christmas-themed project. We will push aside patterns and use examples provided by the instructor as inspiration while you develop your linework and strokework.

This class is designed for experienced rosemalers to improve on their linework and strokework.

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Come learn about the various examples of rosemaling from the area known as Mǿre og Romsdal Fylke (County) in Western Norway! Join Nancy Odalen, Vesterheim Gold Medalist and a recipient of one of the 2022-2023 Folk Art Residency grants, for a lively discussion about the rosemaling that was created within the county of Mǿre og Romsdal. Odalen will have examples from the Vesterheim Collection and from the museum in Romsdal.

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Patti Goke will guide you through a study and exercise on Telemark flowers. Of all the rosemaling flowers the Telemark flower is the most fanciful. The flowers created are limited by one’s own imagination.

In this class you will see many examples of Telemark flowers, do a sketching exercise, and create some flowers of your own. While we will be looking at old examples, what you take away from this class you can use in contemporary painting.

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