Seeing is Believing: A Watercolor Workshop with Judy Taylor featuring Antique Autos and their Artful Ads

Description

In a truly unique workshop experience, Judy Taylor will guide participants into the world of vintage car ads, to an era in advertising that had “caught on” to the power of grabbing readers’ attention with visuals – essentially headlines in themselves.

DAY 1: participants will focus on identifying visual components within a 1930’s Franklin auto advertisement that was artfully designed to draw in its readers, and use that ad as inspiration for their own sketches.

DAY 2: participants moves outdoors to sketch a live model posing with the same automobile from the Day 1 ad, a stunning 1931 Franklin currently at the museum on loan from Jeryl Schriever and Alex Huppe. (A rain-date of August 10 is scheduled.)

Workshop cost is $85 for Seal Cove Auto Museum members, and $115 for non-members. The cost includes workshop materials and lunch both days.

Register online, or call the museum at 207-244-9242.

A scholarship is available for one participant. To apply please send an email to jenna@sealcoveautomuseum.org and tell us about your creative goals and aspirations, and how attending this workshop might help you attain those goals. The deadline to apply is July 15.

Seeing is Believing: A Watercolor Workshop with Judy Taylor is among a series of events this season that will use the museum’s antique autos to help inspire creativity and encourage artistic pursuits, in conjunction with the museum’s new exhibit, Selling Lifestyle & Leisure: Art, Advertising, & the Automobile.
 

About the Artist:

Judy’s work consists of figurative and narrative paintings, labor-focused work, landscapes and portraiture. Her scenes of workers and nature found on the Island often incorporate island residents as models. Prior to coming to Maine she lived in New York City, transferring there from Chicago to study figurative art. She was accepted into New York Academy of Art on full scholarship and received her Masters certificate in their pilot program. She went on to study painting at the National Academy of Design with Harvey Dinnerstein and Ron Sherr.

In 1996 she relocated to Maine and was an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park. Since 2002 she has resided full time in Maine where she maintains her studio and teaches there and at workshops in Austin, New York, Italy and France. In 2007 she was awarded the commission to paint the History of Labor in Maine which took a full year to complete. Her work is in many public and private collections including: Johns Hopkins University, the United States Park System, Friends of Acadia, and the Jackson Laboratory.