VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Figurative Collage: color, gesture & narrative

Gel Plate monotype is a low-tech, inventive, and user-friendly printing method that offers kitchen-table convenience for making art at home as well as portability for travel. Students learn the basics of this fun, press-free approach, launching their work in this medium for fun and discovery of new directions. We make finished prints and experiment with imagery and motifs for other artistic practices like painting and ceramics, and learn an “invisible” collage technique to combine works on paper into larger format works. Simple tools like brayers, rubber tipped clay shapers, brushes, and cut paper allows for complex layered prints.

Learn the elements of watercolor painting and many of the techniques that yield the luminous results the medium is known for. Students explore washes, dry brush techniques, color mixing, working in grey tones, and drawing elements. The workshop begins with working from a still life and moves on to other possibilities for observational study. Students leave the workshop with a toolbox full of new skills and techniques to apply to their watercolor painting practice, as well as several unique works of art to add to their portfolios.

Master Class This advanced painting workshop is for students working in any painting medium, and is designed to be a catalyst for making art within a broadly-defined painting language. Students work on individual projects while digging into experimental processes that boost the forward momentum of their work. Presentations, prompts, and critiques support purposeful discussions addressing how work is communicating. Questions and topics covered include,How can time be captured through color? What is tactile knowledge? Who are your art ancestors and what is their role in the building of your visual language? What and how does your work communicate within the context of contemporary art? Students are asked to bring a digital portfolio of current studio work.