Which Workshop to Choose…  ?

Every Workshop is three days long (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and costs $550 ($650 figure)

Not every Workshop is offered every Session 

 I hope that this little guide will help you figure out how to best use the workshop programs I am offering. 

Remember, practice practice practice is the only way to improve.  

I offer a few different workshops during the year.  Each workshop is designed to

isolate and address the tools  that we (as painters) need to strengthen.

These workshops are designed to enable us to concentrate on the very skills needed

to become successful story tellers.   Strengthening these skills, thought processes,

and methods help to develop our chosen and unique art form -- oil painting. 

Studio Layering Process

This is a greatly informative way of absorbing my unique approach to layering and building a painiting in the studio.

I slow the process down and emphasize application, color mixing, medium, and delayed gratification.

This is the only workshop that meets on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

The Wednesday break provides additional drying time for the following days of painting.

Small panel

simplification of content, power of individual strokes, and belief in layers

How to build an effective base to allow the individuality of brushstrokes

Work on Paper

eye movement, Design, palette control, vignetting the image to allow 

for greater excitement, and learning to avoid too much  intimacy

Follow the Leader

the separation and differentiation in the teams used for each layer 

of the painting process.  The importance of palette control and management.

Blurt -- Task -- Execute -- Assess -- Repeat

Figure                   

this workshop is designed to build confidence, eye-hand coordination, 

And to teach ourselves to by-pass the brain and move from the eye 

to the hand without thinking -- this is to strengthen our blurt.   

Blurt -- Task -- Execute -- Assess -- Repeat

Abstract and Abstracted Floral

this workshop is designed to assist us with mark making, the strength of line 

and  color in our work and mental agility with regard to intent vs. execution

Blurt -- Task -- Execute -- Assess -- Repeat

Large Canvas

the importance of palette control and management, to mix and use the

appropriate amount of paint and to work in baths of color rather than piles 

of color.  Blurt -- Task -- Execute -- Assess -- Repeat

Open Painting

this is meant to be  used as a further reinforcement of the skills taught in 

any of the other workshops as well as a opportunity to finish any starts 

from work started at home or here in the studio in other workshops

Blurt -- Task -- Execute -- Assess -- Repeat

Make it work in your sketchbook and it will work on the canvas. 

Three to four shapes,  diminishing in vertical height, and creating wedges and arrows that

lead the viewer’s eye to the deepest section of our illusion in our painting.