Workshop Topics

Workshop Daily Sample Schedule and Topics


Day One

  • epare three sheets of paper for the afternoon

  • Start 1: Demo of three starts with liquid acrylics

  • Design work with shapes and values from B&W newspaper photos

  • Review compositional possibilities - Gesso veils and shaping


Day Two

  • Start 2: Powdered charcoal

  • Discussion and demo of ways to continue

  • Start 3: Big dark

  • Design work with color harmony and focal points

  • Start 4: Drag


Day Three

  • Start 5: Collage

  • Start 6: Gel textures

  • Start 7: Crayon, wax, glue, paint

  • Design work with transitions and line work

  • Finish started work

  • Find a direction, size, content or concept, integrate shapes, modify colors

  • Critique of one painting


Day Four

  • Continue finishing work

  • Add texture, gesso, stamping, soft touches, line work

  • Find a figure, make a border, overlap shapes, build up depth, use grids

  • Critique of two paintings


Day Five

  • Finishing paintings - Look for relationships: quiet versus texture, warm versus cool, big versus small, hard edges versus soft edges, geometric versus organic, make little marks

  • 2 PM final critique


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