Painting Workshops
Explore the exciting small pieces of art you can create with simple tools and materials. Pen and ink, colored with a watercolor wash, will capture sweet little scenes anywhere – and keep you in practice! Embellish your pieces with text by using simple calligraphy. You will learn it all –…
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The student will receive fundamental lectures on creativity, the unconscious mind, and storytelling, followed by opportunities to learn how to imagine and create an abstract composition incorporating elements of realism and/or impressionism to complete their individual painting(s) and tell their story. The instructor will provide brief lectures, and examples of…
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Having fun painting with acrylics is the main objective of this two-day workshop. Paint pure abstract with step-to-step guidance to finish your own work of art.
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This is a very experimental format, many items are used along the discovery time-line along with your unique creative perspective and imagination. We’ll be exploring a large variety of subject matter – landscape to floral, still life to pure abstract, as we paint in a step-by-step approach. Each session has…
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Plein Air is the practice of painting outside in the “Open or Fresh Air”. We will be outside on location to view our subject in real-time. Chris will give daily demonstrations and then circulate them to give all students advice and encouragement as they endeavor to create their paintings. Among…
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In this 3 Day Workshop students will learn how to paint expressive portraits all the while keeping things simple. With guidance you will be able to take your work to another level. Painting horses can be a real challenge unless you know how to identify important landmarks. This workshop is…
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“I found I could say things with color and shape that I couldn’t say any other way…” -Georgia O’Keefe Here’s your chance to simplify painting using the inventive and expressive power of color and shape. We will examine how great painters of the past use color and shape in such…
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