Painting Workshops
Experience how forgiving and easy oil painting can be, without using toxic solvents. Day 1 will include a discussion of different methods and materials used for solvent-free oil painting and a demonstration of solvent-free painting with traditional oil paints and water-mixable oil paints. On day 2, participants will use their…
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Bring your creative imagination and prepare to have a fun time of pouring acrylics on various substrates and using unusual tools to create a one-of-a-kind work of art. You’ll be creating your own palettes while learning how to pour mixtures onto a canvas to see how it reacts. There are…
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Join award-winning artist Michelle Held in a 2-day workshop to learn sure-fire techniques to incorporate gorgeous water in your paintings. In this workshop, Michelle will inspire you with tricks and techniques to incorporate and enhance all your landscape paintings. Michelle’s tips will help you make the water elements easier for…
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Michele will show you how to add natural-looking figures to your paintings using a 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…
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This class will help you unlock the exciting mystery of color in ways that enrich your paintings and cause emotional excitement. Kathleen will walk you through various exercises to help you explore options and choices. These exercises will help you learn to mix colors, choose colors, and use colors in ways that…
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Impart life to your painting and learn skills that give you a solid foundation in oil portraiture. Using traditional oil paint or water mixable oil paint and working from a clothed model you learn color theory, values, composition, proportions, and edges – love and support are liberally added. For Intermediate…
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Experience the calming effects and therapeutic benefits of watercolor painting while experimenting with the abstract, unpredictable, and playful nature of watercolor. Investigate the process with unique methods and materials. Learn pouring, flowing, dripping, and texturizing techniques across varied papers. Explore controlled mark-making on top of washes with various inks, pencils,…
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Participants may paint in oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor or pastel. Demonstrations and instruction will focus on the essential steps to building a successful painting, in studio and plein air. The workshop will start with a lecture on the fundamentals of sound painting, including a discussion on drawing, value, design, and…
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Participants will be introduced to pastels as a painting medium. Participants will learn through demonstrations, discussions, exploration and engagement with a variety of pastel types, papers and techniques. Participants will complete a pastel painting of a landscape based on photographs. Each day a critique and discussion will identify goals for…
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This workshop is about developing a floral painting with Acrylics using the gold leaf process as a background or accent to add that extra metallic light touch. We’ll begin with drawing the floral image (a color print will be provided for reference) with an HB graphite pencil and using Acrylics…
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