Michele will show you how to add natural looking figures to your paintings using palette knife or bold brush strokes. She will also teach you how to compose your paintings using strong design, value, temperature and paint manipulation. Starting with a small Value Study/Thrust Map for the design and then moving onto the canvas. You will start your canvas with a strongly designed underpainting and then add the colors with the correct values and color chroma. Finishing with thick paint and then paint manipulation to create a powerful and dramatic impressionistic painting full of life and movement. Michele will do daily demonstrations in the mornings followed by student work time with lots of one-on-one help. On day one you will paint from live models to gain confidence in creating believable body language of your subjects. On day two you’ll design a strong piece from beginning to end. On day three you’ll continue with your painting or start a new one. Please bring your own photos or use some that I will supply. This will be an indoor class working from photos. It will be a fun and information packed workshop!