Museum School Workshops: Painting

Each of the five sessions will begin with looking at works from PAAM’s collection, or at each other’s art, as prompts for the material being presented that day. We start with gesture drawings, then move …

In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Mark Doty writes about seeing and the rewards of looking and looking again. He writes at the ending of the book: "What makes a poem a poem, finally, is that …

This workshop will focus on the elements of outdoor painting, as well as natural light. The emphasis will be in learning to see color and light creating accurate color relationship in the landscape, portrait (head) …

Great landscape paintings inspire memory and feeling. They reveal something of the painter’s experience, but also provide opportunities for a viewer to bring memory and emotion into the picture. Direct, spontaneous picture making (painting, drawing, …

“...the mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another --- the fundamental thing.”  Charles Webster Hawthorne Using principles of observation and study originally taught by Charles Hawthorne and later Henry Hensche, this class will …

*This Workshop is Full, Please Register for the Waitlist if you'd like to Join*   Looking closely at the work of Joan Eardley, Richard Diebenkorn, and David Hockney we’ll explore the creation of pictures that utilize weather, …