Whether you are a seasoned professional or just learning, this "refresher" workshop will inspire you to pick up that brush and get painting.

Learn or refresh your skills from the Artist's Artist!

Both workshops include morning munchies, ordered in lunch and a wine and cheese critique at the end of each day.

Day one

A beginners look at the simplified approach to painting through the “value” system.
- Keynote presentation of paintings that will inspire and speak to the lesson of the day.
- A discussion about the essential paintings tools - paint, brushes and supports.
- The simple finish to the simple start.
- Seeing objects as simplified shapes.
- What to look for in order to simplify the concept of “value” painting.
- A word about brush work - How to develop gestural or impressionistic hand.
- Developing a critical eye for observation.

Watch Tom demonstrate these ideas in action while he paints at the easel.

Participants will paint from the simple still life arrangement in order to create
works based on the days objectives.


Day two

A beginners look at the simplified approach to becoming a colorist painter.
- Keynote presentation of paintings that will inspire and speak to the lesson of the day.
- The painterly idea and brush work.
- The primary colors.
- How relating big differences in objects becomes the foundation for the colorist painter.
- The mindset or thinking in color.
- Mixing paint/color.
- Keeping the process of constructing a painting a simplified matter from start to finish.

Watch Tom demonstrate these ideas in action while he paints at the easel.

Participants will paint from the simple still life arrangement in order to create works based on the days objectives.


Cost: $350 per participant

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