Painting Workshops

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 as the painting base, then allow the image to dry. Once the image has cured the gold leaf process will begin on the dried surface. Goldleaf is floated over the adhesive area to either the accent portion or the background. The acrylic image can be either a traditional one or a contemporary abstract one – the artist’s choice.

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 and Advanced students. Prior painting experience with the medium is required.

Oil Portraiture Supply List

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 harmonize your scene. To view Kathleen’s art, awards and credentials go to www.kathleendenis.com.

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.”
– Claude Monet

This class will be taught in oils and/or acrylics.

All levels may attend, but some working knowledge of your paint is necessary.

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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 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!

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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 you and make your paintings sparkle!

Guiding you in painting both still and moving water, from lakes and waterfalls to ocean waves. Learn how to convey movement, distance and make distant water perspectively recede into the landscape.

We will dive deep to use transparency and atmosphere to depict water realistically, including waves washing up on a sandy shore, and a better understanding of reflections on an ever so still lake.

Michelle will enhance your paintings to create believable reflections and luminous rolling waves. Join in this unique opportunity to create beautiful water paintings and submerge yourself in techniques to level up all your future paintings!

Achieve Perspective and Illumination Supply List

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 many different canvas shapes and sizes available to satisfy your unique vision. This process is blending the pouring liquid and silicon with acrylics and metallics (perhaps beads and powdered pastels) to enhance your finished piece

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 choice of either traditional oil paints or water mixable oil paints to paint solvent-free from their own reference photos or from a selection of reference photos provided. All materials are included.

Each participant will receive

• Three Panels
• Palette knife
• Palette paper
• Selection of Oil Brushes
• Selection of Oil Paints
• Selection of nontoxic oils and thinners