Workshops

EXPERIMENTAL/ACRYLICS

-       Use of acrylics and collage

-       On-going demonstrations

-       Abstract and non-objective

-       Working inventively with your tools, trying anything you can think of to bring new life to your paintings

-       Discovering the joy of pouring, scrubbing, glazing, stamping, splattering, and organizing into a more creative work of art

-       Discovering design and color

-       Personal critiques

-       Group critiques

-       This workshop will help take your paintings to a new level

-       Intermediate through advanced, should have some design background

ABSTRACT

-       Opening your mind to creativity

-       Design Structures

-       Repeated Shapes

-       Motifs

-       Found compositions from chaos

-       Color and value studies

-       Painting wet into wet

-       Realistic subject matter superimposed over abstract shapes

-       How to create movement in your paintings

-       Demonstrations & personal attention

-       Group Critiques

-       Intermediate to Advanced Level

-       * See my article in “Watercolor” an American Artist Publication, Winter 1998 issue.

Color

Below is an example of something done in the Color Class workshop.  We will take a drawing and apply many different color schemes.  This example uses Color of Extension - Hexao Color Scheme with different amounts of the colors shown below.

Abstract Workshop

ABSTRACT

-       Opening your mind to creativity

-       Design Structures

-       Repeated Shapes

-       Motifs

-       Found compositions from chaos

-       Color and value studies

-       Painting wet into wet

-       Realistic subject matter superimposed over abstract shapes

-       How to create movement in your paintings

-       Demonstrations & personal attention

-       Group Critiques

-       Intermediate to Advanced Level

-       * See my article in “Watercolor” an American Artist Publication, Winter 1998 issue.

WATERCOLOR I (Basic Watercolor)

-       Painting and drawing demonstrations and personal instruction

-       Introduction to basic techniques (washes, brush strokes, use of various watercolor papers)

-       Basic design, color theory, drawing, and value studies using various subject matter

-       Discussions on how to use the color wheel with different palettes of color and color schemes

-       Step by step demonstrations of landscapes, still life, buildings, close-ups, water, flowers and vignettes

-       Constructive and informal

-       For first time students

-       Can be repeated until ready to move to the next level

-       Critiques

-       For first time students

WATERCOLOR/COMPOSITION

-       In studio instruction

-       Impressionistic and abstract

-       Composition, color and design using different subject matter

-       Emphasis on composition, design, color, creativity, and problem-solving

-       Direct painting and wet into wet techniques, working with different color schemes, value schemes and design structures to create different moods

-       Demonstration of “problem to be solved” and critiques of “solution” during class time

-       Working with small preliminary paintings to be used in the final painting and starting your final piece to be finished by the next week’s session

-       Painting demonstrations, lectures and personal instruction

-       Use of own subject matter and development of own composition

-       Critiques

-       Intermediate to Advanced level

-       Students use own reference material

• In studio instruction
• Opening your mind to creativity and enhancing your creativity
  
• Basic design using the elements and principles of design to better understand how to create your own content
• Use of value schemes and color schemes and design structures
• A full syllabus with illustrations and explanations of the creative ways of finding your own content
• Step by step demonstrations concentrating on using each element separately using one of the principles as being dominant - building one onto the other
  
• For all levels of experience
• Compositional drawings in ink are then transferred to watercolor paper for the painting process
• Demonstrations and individual assistance
• Students use own reference material
• Below is an original photo and below it is the original sketch; To the right of those are two drawings representing the original drawing but using curved line dominace with spherical shapes and the drawing below uses straight line dominance with rectangular shapes.  This is a sample of what will be done in this class.