Welcome painters! Here's the idea: - The workshop will take place on two consecutive days, 2 1/2 hours each day for a total of 5 hours. - The dates are Thursday, April 30th 9:00-noon and Friday, May 1st, 9:00-noon. - I'll be painting with gouache and/or watercolor. You can paint with whatever media works well […]
Welcome painters! Here's the idea: - The workshop will take place on two consecutive days, 3 hours each day for a total of 6 hours. - The dates are Thursday, May 21st, 9:00-noon and Friday, May 22nd, 9:00-noon. - I'll be painting with gouache. You can paint with whatever media works well in your home, […]
Welcome painters! Here's the idea: - The workshop will take place on two consecutive days, 3 hours each day for a total of 6 hours. - The dates are Thursday, May 28th, 9:00-noon and Friday, May 29th, 9:00-noon. - I'll be painting with gouache. You can paint with whatever media works well in your home, […]
It's spring...let's paint flowers! Many of you have told me that you'd love to paint flowers but find it challenging. Let's break down the process for painting them into bite sized steps to end up with satisfying paintings you'll feel proud of. Hint: it's all about shapes, values and color! Here's the idea: - The […]
It's summer...let's paint flowers! Many of you have told me that you'd love to paint flowers but find it challenging. Let's break down the process for painting them into bite sized steps to end up with satisfying paintings you'll feel proud of. Hint: it's all about shapes, values and color! Here's the idea: - The […]
Painting interior scenes - just like painting landscapes or anything else - is about creating the illusion of space and that involves using the techniques of perspective, value and color. Painting interiors is a great opportunity to hone those skills and at the same time to create paintings that are unique and appealing. Here's the […]
Looking through our windows - whether they're the windows in our homes, studios or cars or whether we're looking into them or out of them - is one of the ways we see the world around us. Let's express that in paint! Painting scenes through our windows - just like painting landscapes or anything else […]
Let's start the New Year off by studying from the masters! Doing master studies is an age-old method for learning how to improve our paintings. By emulating the masters we can understand their choices and techniques and apply the lessons learned in our own work. We'll focus generally on composition, value and color, though each […]
Dear Painters, What's your favorite food? I've got many, but one is definitely peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. I think that's what I'll paint (again) in this next workshop. Let's set up our favorite food(s) on our tables at home, put a spot light on them and paint them from life in this workshop. Think Wayne […]
Dear Painters, Everywhere flowers are in bloom. Let's put a few on our tables and paint them from life in this workshop on Zoom. Many of you have told me that you'd love to paint flowers but find it challenging. Let's break down the process for painting them into bite sized steps to end up […]