Museum School Workshops: Painting

Painters draw inspiration from sources, be it observation, experience, dreams, imagination, objects, writing, photographs, mirrors, drawings, or other manifestations of visual culture. Approaching painting as a subjective art form, this workshop will consider ways artists …

This is a course that promotes physical, psychosocial and spiritual engagement through given exercises, tactile and thoughtful applications of making the participants work with multiple materials, tools, and images to expand possibilities in their work. …

This is a class designed to help create a looser approach to watercolors, enable a student to feel more capable with the paints, and end “tight” painting. The workshop focuses on working with water, learning …

Through observation, intuitive decision-making, and experimental play, you will discover new choices and new insight into your work. By creating arbitrary paint strokes, lines, and accidental muddles you will learn how to incorporate them into …

Painting will come easier if your drawing skills are strong.  Gain control of proportional relationships and perspective. Simplify complexity for stronger shapes in composition.  Clarify your seeing of light and dark. Class will be taught …

This is a three day intensive workshop, open to all levels, taught by Donald Beal and Rob DuToit. Mornings will involve working from the still life and model. In the afternoons we will venture into …

The portrait will be the departure point for a discussion of simplification and abstraction in pictorial structure for this four-day workshop. Through reducing the visible to its simplest terms we will attempt to develop accuracy …

What happens when you approach a blank canvas with little idea of what your final painting will be? In this workshop, we’ll create a painting from a whisper of an idea, or none at all, …

We’ll start with charcoal and neutral-colored dry pastels and then move to mono-chromatic underpaintings, followed by exercises in full color pastel and wet media. Applying techniques such as stippling, hatching, weaving and layering, we’ll explore …

This is a class designed to help create a looser approach to watercolors, enable a student to feel more capable with the paints, and end “tight” painting. The workshop focuses on working with water, learning …