Painting & Drawing
Code: D1123-25
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Open to All
Students of any skill and knowledge level.
Mixed Media Acrylic Painting: Material Experimentation
Aug 11 - 15, 2025
9AM-5PM
Concept
Using various collage and painting techniques, students engage in exploratory exercises to develop unique frameworks for gameplay as a method of creation. Through inspirational slideshows featuring contemporary and historical artists, material demonstrations and response to the unique location of Anderson Ranch, participants dive into rigorous play and experimentation with color, form, and various collage and painting techniques. These include stencil work, cut paper sketching, acrylic paint transfers, drawing media, and gel mediums suitable for collage on stretched canvas. Personalized strategies and responses encourage improvisation, chance, and spontaneity, opening new pathways within the student’s creative process. Paint-friendly collage material and other activity-specific materials are provided.
Media & Techniques
Drawing in various media, collage, stencil, masking, pattern, freezer and release paper, tracing and transfer paper techniques, printmaking, paint transfer methods, painting on canvas
Faculty
Jovi Schnell
Jovi Schnell is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her vivid semi-abstract paintings, large-scale murals, and mosaics in public space. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries and institutions including the Stedelijk Bureau Museum–Amsterdam, The Brooklyn Museum, and Berkeley Art Museum. Schnell’s work has received reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Flash Art, and Art in America.
Jovi Schnell, Sky Rounds
Join Waitlist for Mixed Media Acrylic Painting: Material Experimentation
Thank you for your interest in the waitlist. When space in a workshop or program becomes available, registration will open on the website. Everyone on the waitlist will be emailed to alert them of the opening. This ensures that everyone has an equal opportunity to register for the workshop or program.
Painting & Drawing
Make, reflect, consider, engage—these are all critical elements of the Painting and Drawing workshops at Anderson Ranch. Our exceptional workshops combine focused, hands-on art making with critical feedback for artists of all levels. Painting and Drawing guest faculty are phenomenal artists and educators with experience supporting students by offering technical knowledge and encouragement.
The bright, natural light of the Wyly Painting and Drawing Building provides an inspiring environment where students can explore and expand their artistic practice. Our facilities are equipped with individual worktables, wall space, easels, rolling palettes, odorless solvents, a wide range of hand tools, computer access with Adobe software, wifi, printing, scanning, and projection capabilities. Spend a week here— or several—and engage in a variety of activities that will fuel your practice throughout the year.
Workshop Details
Workshop Supplies
For general information about studio access, shipping, and more, please visit our info page.
If you have any questions regarding your supplies for your workshop, please contact Lindsey Yeager, [email protected].
Provided by Anderson Ranch
Equipment
- Laser printer
- Palette knives**
- Palette-topped utility carts
- Presentation projector
- Push pins
- Rags
- Rulers**
- Scanner
- Scissors
- Spray bottles**
- Staple guns
- Stools
- Tape**
- Work tables
Supplies
- 12" x 12" cardstock
- Blank 1-inch wooden dice, 50 pack
- Blue tape**
- Containers for paint mixing and water
- Erasers**
- Freezer release paper
- Gesso**
- Glue sticks**
- Golden soft gel
- Graphite pencils - 2b, 4b, 6b
- Guerra silica flat binder
- Helix or Staedtler Hand-Held Pencil Sharpener - Double Hole
- Paint roller, tray, and 1/4" nap sleeve
- Painter's plastic
- Palette paper**
- Polytab - 25 yd order minimum
- Posca markers
- Replacement blades
- Saral transfer paper roll (wax-free)
- Small cutting mats we have on hand**
- Small sticky mat for x-acto cutting
- Tracing paper roll
- X-acto knife**
What you need to bring
Required Tools and Supplies
- #6 bright brush
- 1 filbert brush, between sizes #8 and #12**
- 3 round brushes, varying sizes from #1 - #18**
- 4" house paint brush**
- 9" x 12" sketchbook
- Double hole pencil sharpener**
- Flat brushes, #4, #8, and/or #10**
- Lemon yellow or cadmium yellow light fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Phthalocyanne blue, ultramarine, or cyan fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Quinacridone crimson or cadmium red light fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger
- Two 16" x 20" stretched canvases**
- X-acto #1 knife**
- Prohibited supplies: power tools, torches, spray paint, encaustic, turpentine, resin, plastisol, any solvent that isn’t low VOC
Optional Tools and Supplies
- Cadmium red orange fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Dioxazine violet fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Large tube of titanium white acrylic**
- Mars or ivory black fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Permanent green deep fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger
- Phthalo green fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Small sticky cutting mat (standard cutting mats provided)
- Ultramarine violet fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- Viridian green fluid acrylic, 1 oz or larger**
- White (or light colored) t-shirt for screen printing**
* Available for purchase in the studio.
** Available to purchase at the Anderson Ranch ArtWorks Store for 10% off. The store aims to stock comparable items, though specific products from the supply list may vary based on inventory.
Learn more about shipping supplies and artwork to and from the Ranch in the Student Handbook.
Lodging & Meals
Housing is limited and includes shared and private lodging options. Reservations will be managed on a first-come, first-served basis. The earlier you reserve housing, the better your chance of receiving your preferred option. Please note: Workshop costs do not include accommodations.
NEW: Tuition includes a welcome dinner and lunches. In our effort to foster a stronger sense of community and accessibility at Anderson Ranch, we include the welcome dinner and all lunches as part of the tuition for summer workshop students. Our hope is that this adjustment will encourage all students to come together to share meals and engage in meaningful conversations. The Ranch Café Meal Plan, which is included with Room and Board fees, strives to provide healthy, creative meals that will nourish your artistic creativity. Learn more.
We have established a Business Safety Plan with added layers of precaution that prioritize the health and safety of our staff, students, faculty and guests while continuing to provide you with the Anderson Ranch experience that you know and enjoy.
Scholarships, College Credit & Discounts
Making Art Accessible
Applications for scholarship support are encouraged. Specific scholarships are funded by Ranch supporters, either through endowed funds or special gifts.
Many colleges and universities offer college credit for workshops taken at Anderson Ranch. Discounts are available for students and teachers.
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