This painting workshop will be held at a variety of locations around Provincetown, to explore different types of landscape. Individual expression is encouraged with emphasis on composition, drawing and the use of color in oil, acrylics or watercolor..
Joan Hopkins is co-owner of Golden Cod Gallery in Wellfleet. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout her career she has often worked on a large scale painting expressive landscapes based on many different places: Cape dunes and marshes, Western Massachusetts farmland, Scottish mountains and Florida wetlands. The figure in the landscape as well as the still life have been prominent in her work. It wasn’t until she first returned to Jamaica in 1980 that she began painting specifically Caribbean themes, starting with large images based on memories of her grandmother’s garden at Blue Mountain. Rather than providing a simple tourist point of view, her paintings describe intimately familiar material qualities of daily life in the tropics
Materials you will need for Joan Hopkins's Class: Small Sketch Book (4x6" or smaller) Drawing Pencils and/or Pens Good Eraser Bring in the medium (charcoals, oils, pastels, acrylics, etc.) you usually paint or draw with. Gamsol or Sansodor for thinners & Galkyd or Liquin for mediums Bring appropriate support materials for your medium (canvas, watercolor paper etc.) Apron or shirt protection Jar for water Paper towels and/or rags to clean up