4 day workshop 5 night stay | Arrive Sunday, depart Friday AM
OIL/PASTEL/ACRYLIC 

"I think workshops are a great thing in our lives..just about any point of life, really. I have taken many and loved and learned from them all. But aside from the information and learning, I came away really charged up! Not that I thought I then had all the answers to art, but because I felt I was on the right track forward and my new workshop friends had somehow been a part of my "charging experience", and mine to theirs. Join us!" George

Our workshop will be focused on moving your art/painting level up several notches. The nuts and bolts of painting can be universally the same for everyone, but there is a world of individuality that each of us bring to the party as we make paintings. To find our voice and our style in art is to travel a road that will eventually take us to that point. We must first obtain some degree of observation, and then some amount of skill to apply what we see and know into paint on the canvas. That is the path, and it is a wonderful, fun trip.
One method we will use in the first day or so of this workshop is to paint small and fast outside, painting just what we see. Later, we will move on to larger paintings while tuning our individual process and making a personal statement.

Generally, my approach to painting is to determine what it is that I like about a scene, then plan the painting to accentuate or at lease hold on to the important aspects that first attracted my attention. This assessment of a scene is just part of the individuality that helps make a personal statement, not that hard for us to do... and in fact a very simple task most of the time.

During the week I will do demonstrations and if you wish, sometimes add a few strokes to your painting to explain a point. That part is entirely up to you. But you can be sure I will supply a lot of individual attention because my goal is to really help each one of you at the level you presently are.