Come to enjoy a masterful tuition by Keiko Tanabe, subject matters will be landscape, Mediterranean seascape, old historic city scape, locations in the charming 18th century farmhouse where the participants will stay. Sicily it’s like a dream, colorful sunset, olive groves, lined vineyards, picturesque villages with narrow streets, churches, a never ending range of restaurants and cafés, blue skies and beautiful nature, jovial people, traditional foods and great local wine. The participants will benefit from daily one-on-one guidance and a group sharing with Keiko. You can expect to learn about composition, how to capture lights and atmosphere, methods and techniques of creative process. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
 
Location: Marsala, Italy
Instructor: Keiko Tanabe
Cost: 1950 €
Sponsor: Salinara
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Get more insight into mixing color in skin tones by working from live models and focusing on the face. Find out how to use a palette of colors for mixing those elusive skin tones, and how to see and mix color as a value, as a warm or cool, and as transparent or opaque. All of this is important to convey accurate, beautiful, and luminous flesh tones and to create a sense of form with your subject. Largely targeted for oil painting but contact instructor for a custom materials list if you are working in pastel or watercolor. Demos, handouts, discussions, and one-on-one feedback at your easel in a supportive atmosphere. Model fee included.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Ellen Cooper
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

This class is designed to provide an intense studio drawing experience with a strong emphasis on improving students’ grasp of a variety of drawing methods used to produce successful realistic drawings. Examine drawing materials’ use, origins, and historical significance. Learn to perceive form, depict accurate tonal values, and develop individual line character while working from PAFA’s historic cast collection of Antique and Renaissance sculpture, as well as from still life objects, students’ own items, and optionally medical-grade human skeletons for students interested in anatomical drawing. Linear (one-, two-, and three-point) perspective, aerial perspective, and the use of color as enhancement will be covered, as well as the purpose and practical use of preliminary and finished drawings as references for paintings.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Robert Waddington
Cost: $450
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Al Gury, Professor of Painting and Drawing at PAFA, and noted author of Alla Prima, Color for Painters, and Foundations of Drawing, presents the foundational basics of art making with a goal of imparting a solid and practical understanding of essential topics and practices. Topics will include the materials of drawing and painting, drawing shapes, measuring, forms, perspective, depth, use of line, understanding light and shade, and composition. Exercises will include the basics of charcoal and pencil drawing, use of pastel, color concepts, and how oil paints work. Subjects will include still lifes, interior spaces, portraits, and life drawing through the use of masterworks. Weekly Zoom meetings provide opportunities for Q&A, art history discussion and references, and illustrations of key concepts.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Al Gury
Cost: $395
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

An in-depth approach to understanding and using composition by Al Gury, Professor of Painting and Drawing at PAFA, and noted author of Alla Prima, Color for Painters, and Foundations of Drawing. This class presents practical skills and strategies for making strong compositions. Composition, the arrangement of images, shapes, forms, colors, values to form visual balance and strength within the pictorial frame of an artwork, will be explored through projects using still life, interiors, portraits, and landscapes. Each class will contain explanations of the visual compositional strategies in both historic and contemporary art, and extensive tactics for problem-solving and solutions, as well as a weekly assignment and critique of personal work. All media and levels of experience are welcome.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Al Gury
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

A thought-provoking and inspirational art workshop open to artists of all levels and media (oils, acrylics, watercolors, etc.). Join us for 9 full days of plein air painting, art history/theory lectures, touring, and gourmet cuisine in the most beautiful area of Tuscany. Our teaching approach and groups limited to eight participants allow us to offer personalized instruction and a stimulating learning environment. Cost of CAD 3775 (around US$ 2900) includes art instruction, 9-night double accommodation, all breakfasts, 8 lunches, 8 gourmet dinners including wine, transportation from and to the Arezzo train station, transportation to all painting sites (Montepulciano, Cortona, Pienza, etc.), train ticket to Florence, and a guided tour to the Uffizi Museum. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
 
Location: Lucignano, Italy
Instructor: Prof. Yves M. Larocque
Cost: US$ 2900
Sponsor: Walk the Arts
Website, email, 800-611-4789

Students will be introduced to the artistic concept of perspective. Perspective is a technique which allows the artist to draw and paint an object or composition in space (for example, a landscape) that creates the illusion of height, width and depth: the three dimensions. This is a 10-week. 1.5 hour, after school class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Candy Stringer
Cost: $260
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

In this course, children begin to identify differences in art such as: distinguish between bright and light, as well as dull and dark colors; find basic shapes within larger objects; and identify types of lines, such as long/short, thick/thin, and straight/curved, then include them in their work. Enrich your child's school-based art program with a more in-depth exploration of art. Employing a wide range of mediums, including drawing and painting, printmaking, ceramics and mixed media, this is an exciting opportunity for children who are looking to take their artistic learning to the next level. This is a 10-week, 2 hour, drop-off class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Susan Branco
Cost: $310
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Historians tell us that Modernism shaped art and culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in both profound and subtle ways and that its effects continue to be felt today. But what exactly is Modernism? Was it a movement, a philosophy, or something else? This two-part lecture will explore the historical, cultural, and political origins of Modernism with close consideration given to its manifestation in the arts. Special attention will be paid to Modernism and the visual arts. These lectures can be taken separately or ideally together for the most comprehensive experience. What is Modernism? Part 1: The historical, cultural and political origins of Modernism with a look at early examples of Modernism in literature, architecture, music, and dance.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: William M. Perthes
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting through still life and portraiture. Get the most from shading, contour, line, proportion and composition. This class will help uncover the artist hidden in every child. This is a 10-week, 1.5 hour, after-school class held on Thursdays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Susan Branco
Cost: $260
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Join your child on a nurturing creative quest. Whether your child has already begun to show an interest in art or you are looking to introduce them to new media in a structured yet nurturing environment, this class allows even the youngest students to discover their creative side. Students work with air-dry clay, collage, paint, chalk and more. Our early childhood teachers encourage students to talk about their art, providing a great opportunity to learn new vocabulary, particularly words related to colors, shapes and textures, and emotions. Children learn to follow directions in a social setting with support and encouragement of their caregiver, serving as the perfect precursor to preschool. This class is for 1 child + 1 adult (parent or caregiver).
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sharon Henderson
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

In this course, children begin to identify differences in art such as: distinguish between bright and light, as well as dull and dark colors; find basic shapes within larger objects; and identify types of lines, such as long/short, thick/thin, and straight/curved, then include them in their work. Enrich your child's school-based art program with a more in-depth exploration of art. Employing a wide range of mediums, including drawing and painting, printmaking, ceramics and mixed media, this is an exciting opportunity for children who are looking to take their artistic learning to the next level. This is a 10-week, 2 hour, drop-off class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sharon Henderson
Cost: $310
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

This programme presumes you already love painting in watercolour and have a passion for the medium. It assumes you want to know more about the medium to take the guesswork out of painting and make watercolour work more often in your favor. The modules are designed to wise you up with knowledge by putting knowledge into practice. The aspects covered may sound foundational but they are important, rarely taught and often misunderstood. The knowledge gained will increase your understanding and enjoyment of the medium, set you on your own trajectory and hopefully help you paint a higher proportion of success stories! You will learn through verbal information, visual exercises, watercolour sketches and paintings.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Hazel Soan
Cost: $545
Sponsor: Terracotta
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This one-day workshop shows how to develop strong compositions within your landscape paintings, with emphasis on movement and energy. Working from photographs in the studio, we will develop small drawings and color studies, which we will analyze for compositional power. Through these exercises and a historically illustrated discussion, we will explore the use of fundamental compositional elements, including: the rhythms of verticals and horizontals, the push and pull of shapes and colors, the distribution of space, and the simplification of masses. Suitable for all levels. Consists of drawing and painting components. Students are welcome to work in oil or water-based paint.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Claire Haik
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Explore still life as a vehicle for understanding abstract ideas about composition, color and value. Discover how the still life genre can be perfect for experimenting with formal and technical painting fundamentals. Emphasis will be placed on ways objects can be arranged to maximize unexpected abstract relationships over their specific descriptive qualities. Students will be encouraged to further develop their own individual use of materials, mark-making and color palette throughout the painting process. The importance of balancing intuition and critical analysis will also be discussed. Each student will arrange their own still life and paint directly from life. It is strongly suggested that participants bring some of their own objects, draperies, etc. to make the process more personally engaging and meaningful.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Edmond Praybe
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Perspective is at the heart of good drawing. It allows us to transform the 3D world into a believable 2D image, and it need not be difficult to understand. With still life and interiors as subject matter, learn basic principles and simple methods presented in clear language and without the need for special tools or complex geometry. This workshop serves as a good foundation for further study in drawing. A modest amount of previous drawing experience is recommended.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Frederic Kaplan
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting through still life and portraiture. Get the most from shading, contour, line, proportion and composition. This class will help uncover the artist hidden in every child. This is a 10-week, 1.5 hr. class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Susan Branco
Cost: $260
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

We have designed an amazing adventure filled with artists’ favorites such as breathtaking views of Czech towns and rivers, fantastic guided tours, exceptional daily watercolor instructions and painting spectacular sceneries of Bohemian landscape complimented with delicious local delicacies, comfortable lodging and private transportation. All mediums | All levels | Non-painters are welcome. Explore the country of castles with Vlad. We will start our journey in Prague, “Golden City of a Thousand Spires”, one of most fascinating cities in Europe, exploring and painting in historic neighborhoods across the Vltava River. Crossing the country down to the South region, we will experience the number and variety of Czech castles from Gothic ruins to majestic, baroque mansions that are simply awe-inspiring.
 
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Instructor: Vladislav Yeliseyev
Sponsor: Renaissance School of Art
Website, email, 941-330-6865

Join Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling for their workshop at the stunning Salinara Art Farm on the west coast of Sicily. Cindy and Theresa will give daily painting lessons and individual help, encouraging support, share how to draw and simplify your subject, play with colors and water, textures, composition, writing and precious advice on how to create and improve your watercolor journal pages. Resume of the workshop, final discussion about student’s works with Cindy and Theresa. Sicily is a unique island that has been shaped by many cultures over many thousands of years. Salinara is a 10 minute walk from the Sea, close by are salt pans with windmills, lined vineyards and olive groves. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
 
Location: Marsala, Italy
Instructor: Theresa Goesling and Cindy Briggs
Cost: From 2900 €
Sponsor: Salinara
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Architecture can appear overwhelming, but by training our eye to see past detail, we can convey buildings in paint very powerfully. In this class students will strengthen their perceptual acuity with regards to seeing buildings and structures more confidently and clearly: simplifying, conveying details, edge variety, sighting angles. We will begin by completing smaller and faster studies, while working in either grayscale or a limited palette. These small studies will teach us how to see complex information simple, and clearly. Day two we will begin longer session paintings, using a full palette and slowly begin adding details, learning how to sight angles, assess perspective issues simply, and vary our edges and marks to create more nuance paintings.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Claudia Rilling
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Join watercolor artist Jeni Caruana on the beautiful island of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. Jeni is an experienced tutor for all levels of artists, from beginners to advanced. She encourages everyone to challenge their boundaries and make new discoveries about their own unique expression. Whether it’s basic techniques to give a firm background, or a nudge into loosening up rigid habits, Jeni gives individual attention and inspiration to everyone in the group. The sessions are taught in watercolour, because it is so portable and easy to use on site, but the principles of drawing and colour apply to all mediums, so artists are welcome to bring whatever they are most happy with. Or to bring something different to experiment!
 
Location: Marsala, Italy
Instructor: Jeni Caruana
Sponsor: Salinara
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This workshop is about painting the portrait alla prima (wet-into-wet) and the techniques used to create a fresh, direct response to our subjects. There will be a painting demonstration and lots of class time for students to work from a live portrait models. Rather than focusing on details, students will learn to simplify and interpret the head and face as a series of basic shapes and planes described by light and shadow. Shevlino will spend time discussing basic proportions and how to recognize the planes of the head and how to simplify them. Shevlino studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (certificate ’84) and the University of Pennsylvania (BFA ’92). Visit davidshevlino.com.
 
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Instructor: David Shevlino
Cost: $700 Museum members/ $750 non-members
Sponsor: Huntsville Museum of Art
Website, email, 256-535-6372

Understanding color and combinations of color is important in your growth as an artist. In this two-session class we will do focused exercises on color mixing with watercolor, including demonstrations. Using a limited palette, you will paint along with the instructor and achieve exciting results! If you choose to use your own reference material, that is fine too!
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Laurie Daddona
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Our 35th workshop in Italy includes 7 nights, 8 days in a three-star hotel with an attached award-winning health and beauty spa; hotel was the 15th Century Pope's summer home; all rooms with private baths; hotel has an elevator; one-on-one plein air painting instructions; oils, pastels, water-based media welcome; painting demos; beginners to advanced; most meals; all land transfers in Italy including roundtrip to Rome and/or airport; paint in Montechiello, Pienza, and Bagno Vignoni; 1/2 day side trips to Siena and San Gimignano; includes spa services of the Roman sauna, jacuzzi, and thermal pools; many fee-based health and beauty spa services available to you through the hotel; cooking classes featuring Tuscan cuisine available for artists and guests.
 
Location: Bagno Vignoni, Italy
Instructor: Sam D'Ambruoso
Cost: $3,575. artist; $575 single room additional
Sponsor: Sam DAmbruoso Art Workshops DAmbruoso Studios
Website, email, 203-758-9660

Autumn leaves and watercolor paint are made for each other. If you long to capture the vibrance and beauty of jewel-like Fall leaves as they turn trees and the ground under our feet into rich tapestries of color, this is the workshop for you. Spend the weekend exploring color mixing and paint application techniques designed to help you capture a bit of nature in one of its most beautiful seasons. The workshop will include demonstrations of wet-into-wet and dry-brush techniques, as well as one-on-one coaching. All experience levels welcome.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Linda Gist
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Spend two lovely days learning how to paint with oils and/or pastels in this workshop! In the morning, the class will start with a painting demonstration, one day will be an oil demonstration and the next will be a pastel demonstration. Students will learn how to focus in on a strong composition, define values, identify your light source, establish a point of focus and how to see and use color effectively to capture brilliant color in your paintings. You will learn how to interpret your reference photographs and understand the relationships between color temperature and color intensity. There will be personalized teaching and individualized feedback throughout the workshop!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Carol Iglesias
Cost: $260
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Historians tell us that Modernism shaped art and culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in both profound and subtle ways and that its effects continue to be felt today. But what exactly is Modernism? Was it a movement, a philosophy, or something else? This two-part lecture will explore the historical, cultural, and political origins of Modernism with close consideration given to its manifestation in the arts. Special attention will be paid to Modernism and the visual arts. These lectures can be taken separately or ideally together for the most comprehensive experience. What is Modernism? Part 2: Modernism and the arts: From Impressionism to Pablo Picasso and Abstract Expressionism.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: William M. Perthes
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Explore the vital and vibrant role of color in art making. More than a supporting member, color can be the lead actor in a drawing or painting. Instruction will examine the work of artists who relied heavily on color for their creative processes, including Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Twombly, and many more. Color theory will be explored as a means of understanding color’s application and meaning through exercises in drawing, watercolor painting, collage, and students’ choice of media. Internalize and personalize concepts to make color a subtle, surprising, or dazzling part of your own work.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Keith Leitner
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

The understanding of colour comes from mixing and exploring its endless universe of combinations. In this workshop we will not just explore colour with this approach, but also investigate its phenomena, its connection to our human vision and its relationship to light. This will bring us to explore and examine prismatic hues, earthtone colors and the subtractive and additive color systems. In addition, we will discuss ways to make an appropriate setting for the studio to promote effective color investigation and learning.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Roger Chavez
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Paint from a life model in poses of varying lengths to develop and refine your figure painting compositions. Extended poses will allow students to adjust and resolve issues of surface, color, and composition. Instruction will cover a variety of topics including glazing, broken color, surface texture, composition and design, the relationship of the figure to the environment, the creation of atmosphere and color harmony, disrupted realism, and open- versus closed-form painting. All levels welcome. Students are welcome to draw-only, or use other appropriate media, if they wish. Note: Tuition includes a $35 models fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: David Wilson
Cost: $330
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Line is the fundamental element in drawing, capable of a wide range of aesthetic possibilities, from describing shape to creating space and atmospheric effects. Capture the landscape though descriptive and expressive drawn line in this indoor studio workshop. Instruction will examine varying quality and character of line, as well as how it serves to define positive and negative space – the active/focal elements and surrounding spaces – as an all-important means of establishing balance, focus, and visual order in any composition. Learn to achieve a variety of effects by using conte crayon, ink and brush, micron pen, and white paint. Students will work from their favorite landscape photos, first to investigate mark-making with ink and brush, and then to work toward image translation.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michelle Oosterbaan
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

A seven-day painting retreat with artist Nina Weiss in San Miguel de Allende, for Day of the Dead, one of the most visually stunning and exciting holidays in Mexico. The town of San Miguel is full of spectacle and activity with elaborate altars, "catrina" parade, Day of the Dead markets and marigolds everywhere! Students will learn to utilize techniques such as layering, optical mixture and broken brushstroke. Technical guidance in all color mediums is provided including gouache, acrylic, oils, pastel and colored pencils. Students will also build strong and effective paintings by studying ideas about composition, gesture and thumbnail sketches, all while enjoying the lush scenery of the colonial town and surrounding countryside. Join us in October!
 
Location: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Instructor: Nina Weiss
Cost: $2599-$3222
Sponsor: Linda Laino Studios
Website, email, +52 415 566 1684

Design is the application of the formal elements of aesthetics to an artwork to enhance its strengths. Explore composition, space, value, light, color, line, texture and pattern so that you can employ these powerful elements in your own work. Demonstrations and discussions of artists past and present will exemplify each principle. Learn to apply these concepts through experimentation and targeted projects. Course topics will address composition, space, perspective, value and light, color, line, and texture and pattern.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Charles Muldowney
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

This class will explore the essential relationships of shape, proportion, and value within the condition of light bathing subject matter. The painterly medium of charcoal contributes significantly to understanding the practice of building a painting. Drawing in line and moving to masses, students strive to draw fluidly with concentration on value and proportion, identifying a process that is particularly suited for training painters. The course begins with shorter exercises, as detail-oriented seeing emerges in still life drawing after students learn to prioritize the order of the masses.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sharon Henderson
Cost: $280
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

The sky is the most emotional aspect of any landscape painting. It sets the mood, time of day and the attitude of your painting. We will investigate the individual characteristics of sky and water and how to render them. On Day One and Two, we will work on techniques for clear skies and creating believable clouds. On Day Three, we use underpainting to explore the layers of transparency in water, and Day Four, we work on whitewater. There will be daily demonstrations along with plenty of one-on-one instruction at your easel. Workshop will be held indoors. Liz Haywood-Sullivan, PSA-MP, IAPS/MC, is a representational landscape artist painting in the pastel medium. Visit lizhaywoodsullivan.com.
 
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Instructor: Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Cost: $700 Museum members/ $750 non-members
Sponsor: Huntsville Museum of Art
Website, email, 256-535-6372

Prepare for a day filled with exploration and artistic discovery. Ellen will guide you through captivating demonstrations that unveil the secrets behind creating stunning tropical-themed watercolor pieces. Delve into discussions about materials, unveiling the perfect palette to bring your exotic visions to life. We'll decode the importance of values, helping you infuse depth and emotion into your artwork. Visit our website for more details and to register!
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Ellen Negley
Cost: $225
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Mr. Shils presents a 90-minute introductory slide lecture, examining issues of perceptual awareness and the mechanics of image making. The talk is the pre-cursor to Stuart's three-day workshop. All workshop participants are expected to plan on attending. While the presentation will be deep into the concerns and mechanics of the visual mind, it is quite accessible to anyone interested in or engaged with wanting to come closer to paying better attention visually. Stuart Shils is a native of Philadelphia and studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he is now on faculty. He was the recipient of an NEA grant, an Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Stuart Shils
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Whether you are a true beginner or looking to further your skills in the medium of chalk pastels, join me for a 6-week introductory class. Learn to see, interpret and record with more confidence! Find inspiration working from autumnal still life set ups and focus on the fundamental aspects of design: Composition, Shape, Value, Color, Form and Texture. Enjoy the process of making art and find your unique style. Demonstrations and plenty of individual attention + critiques will be offered each week. Student grade supplies will be available however, a supply list is below for those who may want to purchase their own supplies in advance.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Louise Dusinberre
Cost: $280
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

When we arrive at a difficult place in the studio, are we comfortable being outside the comfort zone and then, where do we turn to make decisions about what’s next? Are we willing to risk diving deep into an instinctual response with no care for right or wrong? And how do we construct the confidence to risk acting intuitively? Play requires relearning how to forget all the regimentation, rules, techniques that we’ve been ‘taught’, and getting totally lost is the primary way forward to the pace where illumination can occur if we get out of our own way. This class is devoted to developing, toughening, and honing your visual confidence, and not to making pretty pictures that galleries might want.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Stuart Shils
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Join watercolor artist Dan Mondloch in this immersive live workshop as he unveils his signature technique for harnessing the transformative power of light and shadow. Discover the profound significance that light and shadow hold within a composition, and unlock the artistic potential to infuse your own creations with a mesmerizing and otherworldly atmosphere. Through hands-on guidance and insightful instruction, you'll acquire the skills needed to expertly wield light and shadow, breathing life into your artwork like never before.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Dan Mondloch
Cost: $79
Sponsor: Terracotta
Website, email

Abstraction meets representation in this creative take on still life painting. Students will assemble their own still-life set-ups from folded and cut colored paper and then translate these arrangements through observational oil painting on paper. Working from colored planar structures allows the opportunity to explore all the essential aspects of representational still life painting – form, space, value, color relationships, and composition – while experiencing the inherent abstraction of simple shapes and planes of color. Printed papers may additionally allow the introduction of compositional concepts of harmony, pattern, and repetition. Discover the unexpectedly beautiful results of working from the most unassuming of subjects.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Meghan Cox
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Join nationally and internationally acclaimed artist and instructor, Addison Palmer, for this 1-Day in-person painting workshop where you will paint your own beautiful white or blue heron. Tips and techniques will be shared as Addison discusses, shape, value, contrast, color mixing, shadow and more! Students of all levels will enjoy this workshop and leave with a completed painting!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Addison Palmer
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Enjoy painting indoors and outdoors in Southern California as you learn to "Lay It Down & Leave It Alone"! Award-winning artist Debra Huse will teach you three things you must always do for a successful painting and the Impressionist masters' secrets that she has uncovered. Let Debra “hold your hand” to get the correct feel of the brush and how to apply paint. Learn the secrets to capturing clouds, mountains, water, boats, skies, and trees. Enjoy positive, upbeat and insightful instruction. Break old habits and bring a new, more confident, approach to your work. Class size is limited to ensure individual attention and instruction.
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
Instructor: Debra Huse
Cost: $795.00
Sponsor: Huse Skelly Fine Art Gallery
Website, email

Paint with the medium (oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel) of your choice in a relaxed atmosphere with as much instructor help as you want. Bring in new or unfinished work you want to do. Short demos, techniques, and critiques will be available to assist you. Realism, impressionism, or something more modern is all welcome.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Dennis Lake
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Join Jan Wier for this still life workshop working in oils, alla prima style; wet on wet. Students will learn to build paintings with luminous color starting with transparent colors and building towards opaques. Students are encouraged to paint what they love, bringing objects from home to build their own still life arrangements. A personal excitement or connection to an item whether it be a color, subject or personal story, helps the artist create a work that is truly their own. Instructor will provide some items as well for students to work with. Students will be working from life, no photos for this class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jan Wier
Cost: $280
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

In this class, we will explore how the landscape can be interpreted to convey mood and atmosphere through the use of color, line, edge, and composition. We will look at landscape work from other artists, and discuss the various options in assessing the landscape while choosing what to include. We will execute preliminary drawing and color studies, and at least one final work.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Nicole Michaud
Cost: $280
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Receive 13 hours of instruction and demonstration aimed at assisting you in consistently creating successful paintings. This comprehensive program covers a range of essential topics including crafting a value scale palette, mastering chiaroscuro painting techniques, and gaining insights into composition, value, color, edges, and finishing techniques. Through these lessons, you'll enhance your artistic abilities, resulting in more impactful art pieces, culminating in the creation of a captivating full-color masterpiece.
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Laurie Snow Hein
Cost: $600
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Artists who are interested in improving their work often get stalled in their progress and just need a kick-start to get back on the path for excellence. This workshop is a chance to take a good honest look at your current work and consider what exactly needs improvement. The class will be divided into three parts: identification of the one area that most needs improvement, individualized exercises to address the problem, studio painting to put new ideas in to practice. Six weeks of online mentoring is included with the class to maximize the class work. Class size is limited to 10 to maximize individual help. A healthy, delicious lunch will be prepared by Brenda for $14 per day.
 
Location: Franklin, Tennessee
Instructor: Dawn Whitelaw, www.dawnwhitelaw.com
Cost: $600
Sponsor: On Track Studios
Website, email

Join Art League Artist and Instructor Joan Moreau McKeever for this exciting 1-Day workshop and learn how to take an intricate realistic subject and turn it into a simple abstract painting by using a pre-determined number of shapes. Part 1: In the morning of the workshop, students will be given a subject to break down into a pre-determined number of shapes. Part 2: In the afternoon, students will create their own abstract painting with the learned techniques using their own reference photographs, paying close attention to value, composition and color combinations.
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Joan Moreau McKeever
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Learn to paint with Palette Knife. Add a new form of expression to your art, loosen up. Novices? Learn it right from the start. Workshop will also cover elements of art, composition, color mixing, and 5 paining techniques. Apply it all to 3 expressive landscape paintings of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Studio painting from photo references. The workshop takes place in enchanted village of Ajijijc, Jalisco. Full of brilliant light, Malecon, small shops, restaurants, and vibrant street life. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and his work is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop, materials (acrylics) are provided but the techniques can be applied to oil painting.
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

Capture the beauty and light of the outdoors! Composition, values, color, edges, and paint manipulation will be taught. Oil paints are preferred, but water mixable oils or acrylic are acceptable. Familiarity with your medium and basic drawing skills are recommended. Locations TBA. Each day Chris will give a demonstration and lecture in the morning and then break for lunch 12 – 1 pm (either bring a brown bag lunch or fast food). After lunch, Students work on their own paintings and Chris will constantly circling giving individual instruction. In inclement weather we will move into the NSVA studio.
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Chris Kling
Cost: $375
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Spend two lovely days learning how to paint with oils and/or pastels in this workshop! In the morning, the class will start with a painting demonstration, one day will be an oil demonstration and the next will be a pastel demonstration. Students will learn how to focus in on a strong composition, define values, identify your light source, establish a point of focus and how to see and use color effectively to capture brilliant color in your paintings. You will learn how to interpret your reference photographs and understand the relationships between color temperature and color intensity. There will be personalized teaching and individualized feedback throughout the workshop!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Carol Iglesias
Cost: $260
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Maggie Siner, accomplished painter and inspiring teacher will lead you on a voyage into the inner world of the artist’s visual thinking. This slide presentation explores some of the great masterpieces of painting and reveals how paintings use form, space, light and color for expressive purposes. Her ability to communicate about painting and her expertise provide a rare opportunity to look at great painting from a creator's point of view. It is a fascinating analysis that will change the way you look at painting and open a deeper appreciation of art.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Maggie Siner
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Many artists can feel frustrated in front of a blank canvas, unsure of how to start and what to paint. This workshop offers a step-by-step technique which will enable you to paint with confidence by tapping into your intuitive process and finding inspiration more easily. Expert instruction and advice from the instructor will push students to explore new possibilities and work more intuitively, allowing unplanned marks and passages to become artistic breakthroughs. Demonstration of different drawing and painting techniques will enhance your knowledge of the process of painting. Students will utilize line, color and space, as well as the possibilities of editing, to create busy/calm areas and focal points in their paintings.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Kassem Amoudi
Cost: $215
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Embark on a creative journey and join us for an unforgettable artistic experience led by the talented artist Melissa Mastrangelo-Diaz. Whether you're an aspiring artist or simply seeking a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon, this workshop promises to be the perfect blend of artistic exploration and leisure. Discover the captivating world of acrylics as you learn to craft your very own masterpiece inspired by the picturesque Jupiter Lighthouse. No matter your skill level, our workshop caters to everyone, making it an ideal opportunity for beginners to advanced painters. At the end of the workshop, you'll proudly walk away with a stunning 16 by 20" canvas featuring your rendition of the iconic lighthouse.
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Melissa Matrangelo-Diaz
Cost: $50
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Imagine 6 specially chosen colors that will result in mixes that give you the most vibrant colors and avoid muddiness. Artists use these colors to make secondary colors to show brightness, intensity, nuanced color, shadows, and atmospheric perspective/distance, among other things. Learn what colors combine to portray bright sun, cloudy days, cast shadows and shady places. You will broaden your color options using a limited—but specially chosen—palette of colors. Color theory is the same for all paint media so come prepared to paint in the medium of your choice as Alex gets you on your path to perfect color mixing.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Alex Sharma
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Watercolor artist Lana Privitera uses a step-by-step, layer-by-layer approach to build contrast in her paintings. In this live workshop you will learn about the importance of working with a wide range of values. You will see how Lana applies multiple glazes to create flawless transitions and luminous shadows. You will also get some important tips on composition and view angles, pigment choices, background possibilities and how to disguise imperfections in your washes.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Lana Privitera
Cost: $79
Sponsor: Terracotta
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Join nationally and internationally acclaimed artist and instructor, Addison Palmer, for this 1-Day in-person painting workshop where you will follow Addison step-by-step to paint your own beautiful Christmas Cardinal. Tips and techniques will be shared as Addison discusses, shape, value, contrast, color mixing, shadow and more! Students of all levels will enjoy this workshop and leave with a completed painting!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Addison Palmer
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Bring your favorite landscape or seascape photos to this one-day workshop. Class engages in brief discussion on various methods and techniques used to create abstracted land and sea paintings. Students create one small color study and move into large format to create a final composition balancing line, form, color and texture, learning to "loosen up" and move away from the complexity and detail of a photograph. Students may work in oil or acrylic. Please bring several photos to choose from and include one small (6 x 6 to 8 x 10) and one large (16 x 20 to 24 x 36) substrate with your supplies.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Abby Ober
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Geometry has been a source of interest, beauty and creative inspiration for the artist through the ages. Geometry and geometric forms are all around us: lines, forms, and shapes can be seen in everything from architecture to plant life to seashells. Learn non-mathematical working methods inspired by geometry in this workshop, designed to enhance your ongoing body of work or be the starting point for a new one. Create a painting in the medium of your choice: acrylic, gouache or watercolor while you work from your own reference photographs, magazines, books or digital imagery.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michael Smith
Cost: $95
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery & Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647

Michelle is offering a call to action for artists to move away from traditional depictions of still life and create more dynamic and lively compositions. It could also refer to the idea that even though the objects in a still life painting are not moving, they still have the potential to convey movement and energy through the use of color, texture, brushwork and composition. Essentially, this phrase could be seen as a reminder to explore new and unconventional ways of depicting the way light and shadow affect still life subjects.
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Michelle Held
Cost: $350
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Expand on your classroom skills and spend a lovely day outside learning how to paint with pastels in plein air! The class will start with a pastel painting demonstration on the boardwalk at Veteran’s Memorial Park. Carol will share how she creates brilliant color vibration in her pastel paintings. You will learn how to focus in on a strong composition, define your values, identify your light source, create a point of focus, and how to see and use color effectively in plein air. You will learn the importance of painting light, shadows and colors from real life. There will be personalized teaching and individualized feedback throughout the day.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Carol Iglesias
Cost: $120
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

This workshop is not about the traditional way of painting the figure. If you want to take a risk by exploring new ways of expressing the human form, this class is for you. Paint and draw the human figure in a looser and more expressionistic contemporary manner. Refine your painting skills to create a lively surface which will be considered a playground for intuitive creativity, technique, and skill. Expert instruction and advice from the instructor will push students to explore new possibilities and work more intuitively, allowing unplanned marks and passages to become artistic breakthroughs. Establish pictorial unity through visual metaphor and focal points and explore the power of using “active” and “quiet” areas.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Kassem Amoudi
Cost: $175
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Patrick Lee takes a unique creative approach to making paintings in the studio and en plein air. He draws heavily on intuition and imagination to develop an image, often altering the drawing, color, and spatial relationships to create a mood and express a feeling about the subject. This often leads to strong elements of abstraction and suggestion in his work, rather than explicit detail. This gives the viewer an opportunity to connect with each piece in their own way, inviting them to let their own imaginations make personal associations and connections. This two-day workshop focuses on painting interiors from photographic and memory references, as well as establishing a mood through lighting, color, and composition.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Patrick Lee
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Create your own collage from painted paper! Learn how to plan and complete an original work of art from pencil sketch to finished collage. This workshop covers processes for generating ideas, spatial drawing techniques, basic color theory and collage techniques.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Katie Knoeringer
Cost: $95
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery & Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647

Participants will learn the art of collage as well as the art of painting! They will create a collage and once it is complete they will then use a view finder to find new compositions within the collage and sketch these out. Finally, these new areas within the collage will be painted onto canvas boards! This is a wonderful course that teaches collage, seeing, sketching and acrylic painting techniques!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Debi West
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Through demos, lectures and personal instruction you will paint from life using your own personal still life set ups. Common problems such as composition, subject matter, lighting, color mixing and material choices will be covered.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jon Redmond
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

In this 2-day workshop, you’ll learn the key concepts of painting outdoor scenes. Eli will demonstrate and explain her methods and work one-on-one with each student. The focus will be on how light flows, how to develop light and shadow patterns, balance warm incandescent light with cool light, and more! Visit our website for more details!
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Eli Cedrone
Cost: $350
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

The colors and brilliant light of Mexico have enchanted and attracted many artists! Enjoy it while painting some of the iconic doors of the area. Workshop is designed for all levels of painting experience. We’ll cover: fundamentals of color mixing, composition, elements of art, 5 essential painting techniques. Apply it in the context of painting 3 Mexican Doors paintings. Studio painting. Choose from a variety of photo references. At Cristi Fer Art Studio, in Ajijijc, Mexico. You will be surrounded by dazzling light, Mexican charm, on the shores of peaceful Lake Chapala, in a friendly fishermen town. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

Urban sketching… it’s a skill anybody can learn! It will change the way you perceive the world. Whether you are a novice or a sketcher who feels they can do better, this workshop is for you. The focus is on black and white sketching. It is the foundation of all sketching styles. Build confidence and practice urban sketching to capture the essence of the place by learning: What to look for, How to start the sketch, How to simplify the busy surroundings. Your Facilitator: Cristiana Mar is an experienced artist, architect, and educator, teaching adults, leading workshops in US and Mexico since 1989. Our location is a charming Mexican village located on the shores of Lake Chapala. 10 participants
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Cristiana Mar
Cost: $ 500.00
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

Join award-winning artist Peggy Ellis for this exciting workshop appropriate for oil painters at all levels! We will explore capturing light with step by step techniques and tips; including starting with a strong composition, value studies and color harmony. Students will learn as a group, and, receive a lot of one-on-one individual attention and critique from the instructor. Instructor will begin each day with a demo!
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Peggy Ellis
Cost: $450
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Are you looking for a creative outlet that combines self-expression, personal reflection and can even have a positive impact on your well-being? Look no further than this two-day workshop, students will learn how to create a unique and meaningful visual journal that reflects your inner thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Learn a variety of techniques such as collage, painting, and drawing that will help you create a unique and personalized art journal. Come explore the wide and wonderful world of art journaling! For more information, visit lesliewoodarts.com
 
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Instructor: Leslie Wood
Cost: $325 Museum members/ $350 non-members
Sponsor: Huntsville Museum of Art
Website, email, 256-535-6372

Through the exploration of form, color, line, texture, pattern, composition, reinvigorate your art practice. Broaden your artistic process through creative problem solving and give shape to new ideas. Emphasis will be on working spontaneously and intuitively and creating a series of small paintings without overthinking. This workshop is open to anybody who is looking for new ways to approach their art making and develop their own personal imagery and/or process. Any medium you would like to work with is great (oil, acrylic, gouache or collage). Join accomplished artist and teacher Anne Hebebrand in Todos Santos in Baja California, Mexico, a vibrant small town full of galleries, artist and yoga studios and wonderful beaches, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
 
Location: Todos Santos, Mexico
Instructor: Anne Hebebrand
Cost: $750
Sponsor: Anne Hebebrand
Website, email, 857-930-9849

Join Art League Artist and Instructor Joan Moreau McKeever for this exciting 1-Day workshop and learn how to take an intricate realistic subject and turn it into a simple abstract painting by using a pre-determined number of shapes. Part 1: In the morning of the workshop, students will be given a subject to break down into a pre-determined number of shapes. Part 2: In the afternoon, students will create their own abstract painting with the learned techniques using their own reference photographs, paying close attention to value, composition and color combinations.
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Joan Moreau McKeever
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Join our unique art workshop in South America and experience the stunning Caribbean coast from Puerto Colombia (Barranquilla) to Cartagena. Learn the fundamentals of perspective drawing and watercolors and have a taste of Colombian Caribbean food and culture. After an art class, try a "mojarra con arroz con coco" with a cold Colombian beer or an "aguardiente". Paint on the beach, attend cooking demonstrations by local chefs, take part in a street food tour, and much more. Price of CAD 2900 per person (around US$2200) includes eight-night double accommodation in comfortable and centrally located hotels, all ground transportation, all breakfasts, one lunch, a few aperitifs, two suppers, one street food tour, art instruction, cooking demonstrations and art supplies.
 
Location: Cartagena, Colombia
Instructor: Prof. Yves M. Larocque
Cost: US$ 2200
Sponsor: Walk the Arts
Website, email, 800-611-4789

The colors and brilliant light of Mexico have enchanted and attracted many artists! Enjoy it while painting some of the iconic doors of the area. Workshop is designed for all levels of painting experience. We’ll cover: fundamentals of color mixing, composition, elements of art, 5 essential painting techniques. Apply it in the context of painting 3 Mexican Doors paintings. Studio painting. Choose from a variety of photo references. At Cristi Fer Art Studio, in Ajijijc, Mexico. You will be surrounded by dazzling light, Mexican charm, on the shores of peaceful Lake Chapala, in a friendly fishermen town. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop
 
Location: Ajijijc, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

This workshop is an in-depth study of color and value, and how to use them effectively in your compositions. Building upon Joseph Albers' color theory, we will explore the relationship between colors and values and their placement in your artwork. This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience and will help you feel more confident in color mixing, value considerations, and color interactions in your paintings. Bring along your favorite paints, whether oil, acrylics, or gouache. Join accomplished artist and teacher Anne Hebebrand in Todos Santos in Baja California, Mexico, a vibrant small town full of galleries, artist and yoga studios and wonderful beaches, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
 
Location: Todos Santos, Mexico
Instructor: Anne Hebebrand
Cost: $750
Sponsor: Anne Hebebrand
Website, email, 857-930-9849

A Plein Air Oil Painting Workshop with Dena Peterson Join Dena Peterson, painter for the 2018 Oscar-nominated film, Loving Vincent, as she paints the scenery of Mallorca, Spain. “My goal for this workshop is to help you to simplify the magnificent vistas before you, in order to capture the essence that is Mallorca.” Lectures, demonstrations, and painting on location will be the daily itinerary as you learn the basics of painting en plein air in a supportive environment with lots of personal attention. During the week, we will explore the island and its many scenic areas, from the gorgeous views over the Mediterranean Sea to the small towns in the Tramuntana mountain range as well as the capital of Palma.
 
Location: Mallorca, Spain
Instructor: Dena Peterson
Cost: $3,890
Sponsor: Alpine Creative Tours
Website, email, 970-846-9000

Learn to paint with Palette Knife. Add a new form of expression to your art, loosen up. Novices? Learn it right from the start. Workshop will also cover elements of art, composition, color mixing, and 5 paining techniques. Apply it all to 3 expressive landscape paintings of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Studio painting from photo references. The workshop takes place in enchanted village of Ajijijc, Jalisco. Full of brilliant light, Malecon, small shops, restaurants, and vibrant street life. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and his work is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop, materials (acrylics) are provided but the techniques can be applied to oil painting.
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

Urban sketching… it’s a skill anybody can learn! It will change the way you perceive the world. Whether you are a novice or a sketcher who feels they can do better, this workshop is for you. The focus is on black and white sketching. It is the foundation of all sketching styles. Build confidence and practice urban sketching to capture the essence of the place by learning: What to look for, How to start the sketch, How to simplify the busy surroundings. Your Facilitator: Cristiana Mar is an experienced artist, architect, and educator, teaching adults, leading workshops in US and Mexico since 1989. Our location is a charming Mexican village located on the shores of Lake Chapala. 10 participants
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Cristiana Mar
Cost: $ 500.00
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

Master your ability to capture radiance in your paintings and join South Carolina artist Michael Story for this four-day landscape painting workshop. Michael will explain and demonstrate the fundamentals of building radiant color by applying complementary and analogous color combinations. Use effective underpainting and layering of color in trees, grasses, sky, and water to create interest and authenticity in our subject matter. Students begin their paintings with an initial charcoal drawing, followed by a color wash applied over the image. You’ll begin blocking in your painting, then progressing dark to light to completion. Building final layers of color and avoiding muddy mixtures, you’ll achieve fresh, bright, radiant color while capturing depth and drama to your work. Visit michaelstory.com.
 
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Instructor: Michael Story
Cost: $650 Museum members/ $700 non-members
Sponsor: Huntsville
Website, email, 256-535-6372

Picture yourself sitting in an outdoor cafe in one of the piazzas, sketchbook in hand, immersed in capturing the life around you while enjoying a cappuccino. Let me share the techniques I use in my work using a very portable means of sketching - pen and ink and watercolor – to record the beautiful, sensitive lines of an old building or the bold strokes of a street scene. Learn to zoom in on the important elements when working in the field to create interesting compositions and lasting memories with texture and rich washes of color! This class covers pen and ink and watercolor wash techniques, composition and simple perspective.
 
Location: Cortona, Italy
Instructor: Ann Thomas
Cost: From $3850.00 per person
Sponsor: Toscana Americana Workshops
Website, email, 978-407-7127

Experience magical Sicily, enjoy breathtaking vistas, tiny villages, amazing Sicilian gastronomy and local wine. For those lovers of watercolour painting, the process of quickly developing comfortable relationship with methods and materials Subject of workshop effectiveness, the state of painting and community over local cuisine and wine at the villa. . Sound good? Come to paint en plein air or just to enjoy the company of fellow artists.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Stewart White
Cost: From 2050 $
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
Website, email

Really getting to know a landscape, instead of just identifying elements of it, makes us better, more sensitive landscape painters. Each landscape has a personality and something to say. It’s when we begin to really understand why a landscape draws us in and captures our imagination that we become better able to advance from simply copying the obvious aspects of the landscape to incorporating mood and atmosphere and those hard-to-define qualities that take a landscape painting from average to extraordinary. The studio portion of this workshop will focus on learning ways to create paintings that have their own voice, and the optional plein air day will focus on gathering thoughts and information, along with creating small paintings for future reference material.
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Lyn Asselta
Cost: $520
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Really getting to know a landscape, instead of just identifying elements of it, makes us better, more sensitive landscape painters. Each landscape has a personality and something to say. It’s when we begin to really understand why a landscape draws us in and captures our imagination that we become better able to advance from simply copying the obvious aspects of the landscape to incorporating mood and atmosphere and those hard-to-define qualities that take a landscape painting from average to extraordinary. The studio portion of this workshop will focus on learning ways to create paintings that have their own voice, and the optional plein air day will focus on gathering thoughts and information, along with creating small paintings for future reference material.
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Lyn Asselta
Cost: $175
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

This Travel Journaling workshop in Provence has been designed with the Absolute Beginner in mind. Creating a watercolor journal when you are traveling is the complete opposite of how many of us travel these days: taking photos after photos with our phones. Watercolor Travel Journaling gives us a chance to slow down, to sketch scenes around us, to bring out our paints and add some color to our travel journals. Provence is the artist's dream destination. During the days, we will explore Luberon, and its spectacular countryside of vineyards and orchards, fascinating "perched" hill-top villages, outstanding natural produce and the light of Van Gogh and Cezanne. You will see why artists of all calibers are drawn to this alluring area.
 
Location: Bonnieux, Provence, France
Instructor: Lo Peyron Mathews
Cost: $3,590
Sponsor: Alpine Creative Tours
Website, email, 970-846-9000

Come join Andrew Lattimore, as you explore the exciting and varied history of Sicily’s diverse architecture, stunning landscape, fabulous food and rich culture! We’ll be staying in Marsala at Salinara, an 18th-century villa owned by our gracious hosts, Yumi and Adriano. It is surrounded by vineyards and olive groves and is only a 10-minute walk to the Mediterranean sea. Each day we’ll enjoy an early morning breakfast following a full day of painting, exploring the sights and sounds of Sicily. We’ll paint the captivating landscape at the villa but we will also take day excursions to the city of Marsala, the Marsala Salt Pans, Erice, and the Park of Selinunte.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Andrew Lattimore
Cost: From € 2175
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
Website, email

Join Alyssa for a week of immersing yourself in the sights, sounds, and local color of the Tuscan landscape. Based in Beautiful Cortona, experience all the wonders Tuscany has to offer – the rolling countryside, picturesque hill towns, and breathtaking vistas through the eyes of the artist! With Alyssa’s guidance as a veteran plein-air painter and teaching artist who has spent the past two decades sharing her passion for travel and landscape painting throughout the US and Europe, this will be a week like no other! Get ready to improve your artistic knowledge, expand your creativity, build connections, and embed your experiences and memories of your Italian adventure in the beautiful artworks you create!
 
Location: Cortona, Italy
Instructor: Alyssa DeLaBruere
Cost: From $3850.00 per person, all inclusive
Sponsor: Toscana Americana Workshops
Website, email, 978-407-7127

Come join Andrew Lattimore, as you explore the exciting and varied history of Sicily’s diverse architecture, stunning landscape, fabulous food and rich culture! We’ll be staying in Marsala at Salinara, an 18th-century villa owned by our gracious hosts, Yumi and Adriano. It is surrounded by vineyards and olive groves and is only a 10-minute walk to the Mediterranean sea. Each day we’ll enjoy an early morning breakfast following a full day of painting, exploring the sights and sounds of Sicily. We’ll paint the captivating landscape at the villa but we will also take day excursions to the city of Marsala, the Marsala Salt Pans, Erice, and the Park of Selinunte.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Andrew Lattimore
Cost: From € 2175
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
Website, email

Join us for this weeklong plein air workshop in beautiful Tuscany and Umbria. Create vignette sketches and paintings of the dramatic vistas, colorful architecture, bustling people and more during your time on this magical trip to Cortona, Italy. Morning and afternoon sessions, followed by individual instruction, will cover the basic concepts of atmospheric and linear perspective, capturing people, architecture, and dramatic lighting. With pen and paper in hand, you’ll quickly document the sites. Add a touch of watercolor to enhance your sketches. Your art supplies are light and easy to tote making this ideal for all levels of artists. The traveler’s sketchbook is a wonderful way to document your trip in a carefree way.
 
Location: Cortona, Italy
Instructor: Jo Ellen Reinhardt
Cost: From $3850.00 per person, all inclusive
Sponsor: Toscana Americana Workshops
Website, email, 978-407-7127

Still life painting can be highly rewarding, but it can also be intimidating. Perhaps your past attempts to paint fruit have looked flat and formless. Maybe the colors in your flowers have appeared "chalky" or "muddy." Perhaps you've struggled to arrange a good still life in the first place! If these difficulties sound familiar, I'm excited to show you how to conquer these challenges and many more in this information-packed workshop. Learn how to identify and accurately capture the most subtle color changes. Learn how to make fruit and other objects look 3-D. And learn how to draw your viewer's eye from across the room with the 5 Principles for Powerful Paintings!
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Adam Clague
Cost: $475
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Stepping outside and painting the landscape can be exhilarating, but it can also feel overwhelming! In this plein air workshop, I will share the powerful principles you need to break down a scene into manageable chunks, establish your center of interest or "focal point" and create a dynamic, engaging composition. I'll begin the workshop with a demonstration of key plein air principles. In the afternoon, you'll be able to paint the landscape, and I will offer my thoughts and assistance. Please join me for this fun, informative plein air workshop in the great outdoors.
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Adam Clague
Cost: $175
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Join me for 4 days of sketching with watercolor in beautiful Santa Fe. We’ll enjoy the free-flowing and colorful nature of watercolor at its best while sketching and having fun! I’ll help you develop observation skills, color awareness, simple design principles and learn about light and shadows. We’ll investigate various techniques, sketching tools, and approaches to watercolor. Enjoy time with fellow artists, instruction and friendly critiques. Space is very limited (max 15 participants).
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Brenda Swenson
Cost: $1,690
Sponsor: French Escapade
Website, email, 510-483-5713

“One of the greatest things in the world is to train ourselves to see beauty in the commonplace.” - Charles Hawthorne. Sarah Sedwick is an oil painter whose still lifes celebrate the beauty of the everyday, inspired by color combinations and dynamic composition. Her paintings explore the undercurrents of meaning we impart to the objects around us - whether through a system of personal emotional symbolism or a buildup of familiarity over time.
 
Location: Cortona, Italy
Instructor: Sarah Sedwick
Cost: From $3850.00 per person, all inclusive
Sponsor: Toscana Americana Workshops
Website, email, 978-407-7127

The colors and brilliant light of Mexico have enchanted and attracted many artists! Enjoy it while painting some of the iconic doors of the area. Workshop is designed for all levels of painting experience. We’ll cover: fundamentals of color mixing, composition, elements of art, 5 essential painting techniques. Apply it in the context of painting 3 Mexican Doors paintings. Studio painting. Choose from a variety of photo references. At Cristi Fer Art Studio, in Ajijijc, Mexico. You will be surrounded by dazzling light, Mexican charm, on the shores of peaceful Lake Chapala, in a friendly fishermen town. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

A Sketchbook Journaling Workshop with Karen Ramsay. Come join us and capture Lake Como in watercolor! As we fill our art travel journals with sketching and watercolors, Karen will give us tips and tricks for improving this special skill. Sketching on location, while traveling, is an art form that you can take with you on every future trip and the sketches that you create will become a treasured visual diary of your travel. During the week, we will guide you to the finest spots along the shores of the picturesque Lake Como with its charming lakeside towns, its Renaissance architecture, Italian villas and terraced gardens. Lake Como has a timeless beauty where you will find endless inspiration to create art!
 
Location: Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
Instructor: Karen Ramsay
Cost: $3,890
Sponsor: Alpine Creative Tours
Website, email, 970-846-9000

Join us for another amazing painting adventure with Lori Putnam and Kevin Macpherson in Sicily. Western Sicily's splendid atmosphere offers you the opportunity to discover hundreds of picturesque painting spots. Together with Kevin's and Lori's charm and inspiration, we are certain you will have a wonderful time. At the end of the week, you will leave this adventure excited, ready to experiment more on your own; and, above all, pointed toward meaningful, personal artistic growth. Plein air experience strongly recommended. Only for a small group of Artist Friends.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Lori Putnam & Kevin Macpherson
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
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A thought-provoking and inspirational art workshop open to artists of all levels and media (oils, acrylics, watercolors). Nine full days of plein air painting, art history/theory lectures, touring, and gastronomy in the most beautiful area of Tuscany. Our teaching approach and groups limited to eight participants allow us to offer personalized instruction and a stimulating learning environment. Cost of CAD 3975 (around US$ 3000) includes instruction, 9-night accommodation in single and double rooms (limited single rooms available at no extra cost), all breakfasts, 7 lunches, 9 gourmet dinners including wine, transportation from and to the Arezzo train station, transportation to all painting sites (Montepulciano, Cortona, Pienza, etc.), train ticket to Florence, and a tour to the Uffizi Museum.
 
Location: Lucignano, Tuscany, Italy
Instructor: Prof. Yves M. Larocque
Cost: US$ 3000
Sponsor: Walk the Arts
Website, email, 800-611-4789

Learn to paint with Palette Knife. Add a new form of expression to your art, loosen up. Novices? Learn it right from the start. Workshop will also cover elements of art, composition, color mixing, and 5 paining techniques. Apply it all to 3 expressive landscape paintings of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Studio painting from photo references. The workshop takes place in enchanted village of Ajijijc, Jalisco. Full of brilliant light, Malecon, small shops, restaurants, and vibrant street life. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and his work is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop, materials (acrylics) are provided but the techniques can be applied to oil painting.
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

A unique art workshop/art tour open to artists of all levels and media (oils, acrylics, watercolors, etc.). Seven days of plein-air painting, art history/theory lectures, and gastronomy in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence followed by four days visiting Barcelona’s top art sites and enjoying Catalan cuisine. The price of CAD 4475 per person (around US$ 3350) includes instruction,11-night double accommodation, 11 breakfasts, 6 healthy lunches, 6 gourmet dinners including wine, transportation from the Manosque train station to our lodge, transportation to all painting sites, TGV train ticket Avignon-Barcelona, transportation and entrance fees to all sites on schedule (Cézanne’s studio, La Sagrada Familia, Picasso Museum, Miró Museum, etc.). Limited single rooms for a supplement of CAD 850 around US$ 650.
 
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Instructor: Prof. Yves M. Larocque
Cost: US$ 3350
Sponsor: Walk the Arts
Website, email, 800-611-4789

A unique art workshop/art tour open to artists of all levels and media (oils, acrylics, watercolors, etc.). Seven days of plein-air painting, art history/theory lectures, and gastronomy in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence followed by four days visiting Barcelona’s top art sites and enjoying Catalan cuisine. The price of CAD 4475 per person (around US$ 3350) includes instruction,11-night double accommodation, 11 breakfasts, 6 healthy lunches, 6 gourmet dinners including wine, transportation from the Manosque train station to our lodge, transportation to all painting sites, TGV train ticket Avignon-Barcelona, transportation and entrance fees to all sites on schedule (Cézanne’s studio, La Sagrada Familia, Picasso Museum, Miró Museum, etc.). Limited single rooms for a supplement of CAD 850 around US$ 650.
 
Location: Alpes de Haute-Provence, France
Instructor: Prof. Yves M. Larocque
Cost: US$ 3350
Sponsor: Walk the Arts
Website, email, 800-611-4789

This workshop will focus on working in abstraction while considering some basic fundamentals exploring composition, colour and expressive brushwork. This event is held at my Niagara-on-the-Lake studio. The studio is bright and spacious, and registration is limited to 10 people. Outdoor painting may be an option, weather permitting. In this workshop you will learn how to plan work as well as work intuitively to create a loose and confident painting which speaks to your unique style. No lugging of paints and materials! All GOLDEN Artist quality paints and mediums are included along with 16”x20” canvas. A healthy artisan lunch is included and all beverages. All participants will take home their abstract work along with an Artist Pack gift.
 
Location: Niagara, Canada
Instructor: Sandra Iafrate
Cost: $185
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Learn to paint with Palette Knife. Add a new form of expression to your art, loosen up. Novices? Learn it right from the start. Workshop will also cover elements of art, composition, color mixing, and 5 paining techniques. Apply it all to 3 expressive landscape paintings of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Studio painting from photo references. The workshop takes place in enchanted village of Ajijijc, Jalisco. Full of brilliant light, Malecon, small shops, restaurants, and vibrant street life. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and his work is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop, materials (acrylics) are provided but the techniques can be applied to oil painting.
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

Sicily – It's on everyone's bucket list, with colorful sunsets, olive groves, vineyards, and picturesque villages with narrow streets, a never ending range of restaurants and cafés, blue skies and beautiful nature, it’s a painters paradise… And it will be our home for 7 days. The workshop is hosted by the retreat center Salinara. Our daily watercolor routine will include daily demonstrations by Gary, along with time for individual instruction. Afternoons will vary between painting time, exploring the region on your own, or possible one of the many activities offered through Salinara – on designated days Gary will conduct group critique over cocktails before the evening meal.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Gary Tucker
Cost: From 2300 $
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
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Come to enjoy a masterful tuition by Keiko, subject matters will be landscape, Mediterranean seascape, old historic cityscape. We’ll be staying at Salinara, an 18th-century farm, surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, only a ten minutes walk to the Mediterranean sea. Sicily is like a dream… colorful sunsets, olive groves, lined vineyards, picturesque villages with narrow streets, churches, a never ending range of restaurants and cafés, blue skies and beautiful nature, jovial people, traditional foods and great local wine. The participants will benefit from daily one-on-one guidance and a group sharing with Keiko. You can expect to learn about composition, how to capture lights and atmosphere, methods and techniques of creative process. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Keiko Tanabe
Cost: From € 2050
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
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This exclusive retreat is designed to cater to experienced artists seeking a fresh, inspiring location to delve into their process and develop as artists. Nestled in the heart of Italy, Umbria’s breathtaking beauty is characterized by rolling hills covered in olive groves and vineyards, enchanting medieval villages perched atop hills, and ancient stone bridges over meandering rivers. The studio provided for the artists is spacious with natural light, ensuring the perfect creative environment. As part of the experience, artists will have the opportunity to explore neighboring villages, discover hidden gems, and capture the essence of this timelessly picturesque region on their canvases. Artists will be accommodated in a charming villa, offering single ensuite rooms and delectable meals.
 
Location: Umbria, Italy
Instructor: Sandra Iafrate
Cost: 1950 GBP
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A Sketchbook Journaling Workshop with Karen Ramsay. Come join us and capture Mallorca in watercolor! As we fill our art travel journals with sketching and watercolors, Karen will give us tips and tricks for improving this special skill. Sketching on location, while traveling, is an art form that you can take with you on every future trip. The daily sketches that you create will become a treasured visual diary of your travel. During this week in Mallorca, we will explore the island, its many scenic areas - from the gorgeous views over the Mediterranean Sea to the small towns in the Tramuntana mountain range: the artist town of Deia, the scenic towns of Fornalutx and Valldemossa and the capital Palma.
 
Location: Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain
Instructor: Karen Ramsay
Cost: $3,890
Sponsor: Alpine Creative Tours
Website, email, 970-846-9000

This workshop will elevate your artistic journey with successful strategies for creating painterly landscapes. 10 steps for success will be accentuated. Eve will demonstrate how to choose effective reference photos while activating your scene using underpainting techniques. She will do two demos per day utilizing different techniques. You will learn how to choose dynamic compositions using thumbnails, 3 to 5 simple shapes, values and edges. We will cover harmony, tips for loosening your painting style, art apps for success, as well as many tips and tools. A constructive and encouraging appraisal will wrap up our workshop!
 
Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
Instructor: Eve Miller
Cost: $450
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Join us for a plein air watercolour painting retreat in delightful and peaceful West-Sicily with Polish watercolorist Michal Jasiewicz. We are so proud that he’s coming to SALINARA for the second time. Michal will be your tutor during your stay at the stunning Salinara Art Farm, in the Trapani region. Daily painting excursions to surrounding salt pans, local markets, vineyards, villages such as the medieval town Erice, and Archeological Park of Selinunte, one of the most flourishing classical civilizations of the Mediterranean area. The workshop will take you through selecting a dramatic composition and simplifying it, tone, light, color theory, effects and how to build up a watercolour painting in a structured, demonstration-led setting. Limited single rooms for a supplement.
 
Location: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Instructor: Michal Jasiewicz
Cost: From € 1750
Sponsor: Salinara - Art Farm | Retreat Centre
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Introducing history of art in Umbria – journey among the wonder. Day 1 Assisi – before and after Giotto: Cimabue and Pietro Cavallini. Investigation around art changings through the XIII century. Day 2 Spoleto – Alberto Sotio: unique XII century school of art in remote Umbria, how byzantine influences have produced masterpieces. Day 3 Montefalco – Benozzo Gozzoli: a piece of Florence in Umbria. Spello – Pinturicchio: artist of the most reach XVth century courts of Italian Renaissance. Day 4 Orvieto – From ‘300 to ‘500: three centuries in a single masterpiece, the Duomo of Orvieto and the ‘Fabrica’. Day 5 Perugia – briefing up: Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, eight centuries of History of Art in Umbria in one place.
 
Location: Assisi, Italy
Instructor: Irene Maturi
Cost: € 2600
Sponsor: Schola Artis Pro Vobis
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Learn to paint with Palette Knife. Add a new form of expression to your art, loosen up. Novices? Learn it right from the start. Workshop will also cover elements of art, composition, color mixing, and 5 paining techniques. Apply it all to 3 expressive landscape paintings of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Studio painting from photo references. The workshop takes place in enchanted village of Ajijijc, Jalisco. Full of brilliant light, Malecon, small shops, restaurants, and vibrant street life. Your instructor maestro Fernando Gonzalez, has over 35 years of painting experience, and his work is in collections in US, Canada, and Mexico. Only 10 per workshop, materials (acrylics) are provided but the techniques can be applied to oil painting.
 
Location: Ajijic, Mexico
Instructor: Fernando Gonzalez
Cost: $ 750.00 includes all materials
Sponsor: Cristi Fer Art Studio and Workshops
Website, email, 322-153-1906

I cover studio safety and set up, as well a many tips and tricks in each lesson from my 17 years of working in encaustic and mixed media, and 12 years of teaching classes and workshops. Some of the topics we cover: Sizing Panels, Direct and Indirect Fusing methods, Scraping to refine surface and shape, Image Transfers, Using oils, Raised and Inset line work, and much more!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Sarah Rehmer
Cost: $119
Sponsor: Sarah Rehmer | visual artist
Website, email, (708) 680-6759

I cover studio safety and set up, as well a many tips and tricks in each lesson from my 17 years of working in encaustic and mixed media, and 12 years of teaching classes and workshops. Some of the topics we cover: Sizing Panels, Direct and Indirect Fusing methods, Scraping to refine surface and shape, Image Transfers, Using oils, Using various types of paper, Mounting Paper to a panel and much more!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Sarah Rehmer
Cost: $149
Sponsor: Sarah Rehmer | visual artist
Website, email, (708) 680-6759

In this 21 video e-course you will get all the basics plus more in getting you up and working with encaustic paints and your photographs. Over 3 hours of video content plus a companion guide outlining some additional info on supplies used. • Sizing Panels • Working on Mounted and Embedded Prints • Direct and Indirect Fusing methods • Scraping to refine surface and shape • Image Transfers • Using oils • Using various types of photo paper • Hand Coloring on an image • much more!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Sarah Rehmer
Cost: $149
Sponsor: Sarah Rehmer | visual artist
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As an instructor, it is my sincere desire to help guide aspiring painters to find better ways to trust, develop, and listen to their artistic voice. This is not done by providing answers so much as in helping artists to ask the right questions. When we begin to grasp this and ask ourselves these fundamental questions, we are well on our way to making significant strides. The curriculum presents a comprehensive and sequential education of watercolor techniques while inspiring the development of your own unique style. The program has rolling admission; you can join anytime and start from the beginning of the curriculum. Each month you will progress through a new 4-8 hour video series while honing your style & technique.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Thomas W. Schaller
Sponsor: Terracotta
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Learn with Thomas Schaller as he instructs on how to establish perspective and dimensionality in your work. Thomas W. Schaller AWS NWS TWSA ASAI, is an award-winning artist, architect, and author based in New York City. As a renowned architectural artist, he received a Graham Foundation Grant and was a two-time recipient of the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize. He has authored three books; the best-selling, and AIA award winner, Architecture in Watercolor (VNR – McGraw Hill) The Art of Architectural Drawing (J.Wiley and Sons), and Thomas W. Schaller, Architect of Light : Watercolor Paintings by a Master. (Penguin Random House)
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Thomas W. Schaller
Sponsor: Terracotta
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During this video course, award-winning watercolorist, Thomas Schaller, demonstrates the way to express your experience of the built environment through watercolor painting. Tom will walk you through the process of discovering new methods to compose, simplify, and edit images of the built environment in dynamic ways. You will also examine the narrative power of one and two-point - as well as more unusual - perspective angles. The course was filmed in Tom's studio and includes three complete painting demonstrations for a total of 3+ hours of video lessons.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Thomas W. Schaller
Sponsor: Terracotta
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In this masterclass, world-renowned portrait artist Mary Whyte gives a comprehensive guide to mastering the skills of painting portraits in watercolor. This course will take you through each step on how to create a successful portrait, setting you on the path to creating your best work ever. Mary Whyte begins this course with a full demonstration, showing her process from beginning to end. The demonstration is followed by six focused learning modules, breaking down each stage of developing not only a successful portrait, but a painting with emotion that will endure. The course was filmed in Mary Whyte’s studio in Charleston, South Carolina.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Mary Whyte
Sponsor: Terracotta
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