4 Workshops
Enjoy individualized attention as I guide you through the process of discovering what you’re interested in creating by learning new skills and techniques that help you to achieve your ongoing goals. Find your unique abilities as you discover your vision. Learn how to build your skills in color mixing, using washes, blending, composition, contrast, borrowing elements from master artists and enjoying painting with friends. If your desire is to create your own original style join us. I will guide you through the process with live demonstrations of painting works that take your breath away and remember the more consistently you paint the more momentum you create. The better it gets, the better it gets and before you know it your own original style emerges right before your eyes just like magic. Consistency is the key.
Week 1- PART 1- Everyone chooses a painting to interpret with the focus on COMPOSITION (LINE, SHAPE AND FORM)
PART 2- Then we choose a second painting painted by a master to use for reference. We will add a layer on top of the 1st painting with the focus on TEXTURE - I will do a live demonstration on how to apply papers, fabrics, found objects etc. Get creative and bring something interesting to enhance your painting
Week 2 - Everyone chooses their own painting for reference with the focus on COLOR to layer on top of painting #1 using 8x10 images from our library - I will do a live demonstration using washes, blending and mixing to achieve specific colors
Week 3 - WILDCARD- Our focus will be different each WILDCARD week. We might talk about breaking the rules (how to break them properly) in realism and abstract. I will do a live demonstration on how to take a painting that doesn’t work and turn it into one that does. Another week we might talk about how to paint eyes or an ear etc. I will also take requests and be open to suggestions. You can bring a painting from home that you’ve been struggling with and I will guide you through the process of making it work.
Week 4 - We will take everything we learned from weeks 1-3 and paint a large group abstract or you can work on your own painting