Workshops
Why Paint Flowers?
Composition, Color, and the Pleasure of Painting from Life
ONLINE
A flower is a wondrous life to behold and we will take the time to see it evolve from fresh bloom to wilted grace. Day 1 will cover composition, ways to consider arrangement of the tabletop or position in the garden, and the START of a painting. Day 2 will cover oil color, palette arrangement, mixing, and how to translate visual experience into tone and abstraction. Day 3 will be all things painterly: viscosity, brush-loading, and wet-into-wet painting.
Classes will include lecture, demo, and Q&A. Just come with your notebook. Classes are recorded. Between classes share your paintings on the message board and enjoy all the time you can with your models: roses, peonies, tulips, cherry blossoms, daisies, iris!
CLICK HERE to Register at Winslow Art Center!
Medium: Oil or acrylic
Level: All levels welcome
Class Dates: Mondays, May 4-18, 2026
Class Times:
• 10:30 am-1:00 pm Pacific time
• 1:30 pm-4:00 pm Eastern time
• 6:30 pm-9:00 pm UK time
FLOWER PAINTING MARATHON:
EXPLORING ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION
En Plein Air Painting
Why Paint Flowers?
Composition, Color, and the Pleasure of Painting from Life
ONLINE
A flower is a wondrous life to behold and we will take the time to see it evolve from fresh bloom to wilted grace. Day 1 will cover composition, ways to consider arrangement of the tabletop or position in the garden, and the START of a painting. Day 2 will cover oil color, palette arrangement, mixing, and how to translate visual experience into tone and abstraction. Day 3 will be all things painterly: viscosity, brush-loading, and wet-into-wet painting.
Classes will include lecture, demo, and Q&A. Just come with your notebook. Classes are recorded. Between classes share your paintings on the message board and enjoy all the time you can with your models: roses, peonies, tulips, cherry blossoms, daisies, iris!
CLICK HERE to Register at Winslow Art Center!
Medium: Oil or acrylic
Level: All levels welcome
Class Dates: Mondays, May 4-18, 2026
Class Times:
• 10:30 am-1:00 pm Pacific time
• 1:30 pm-4:00 pm Eastern time
• 6:30 pm-9:00 pm UK time
FLOWER PAINTING MARATHON:
EXPLORING ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION
Inspired by the glorious abundance of flowers in bloom, we will jump right in! Our focus will be on responding directly to nature and producing a quantity of work.
Mornings will be dedicated to producing several experimental starts to paintings with the support of individual instruction and collegial encouragement, including a cheering team. We will break for lunch and come back at 1pm for lecture and demonstration focused on responding directly from nature, large abstract decisions, and color harmony. Demonstrations will be in oil though you are welcome to work in any painting medium. All levels welcome.
Please come fully prepared to work with plenty of surfaces.
Materials list for oil painting is available.
Materials list for oil painting is available.
Register at A Maker's Circle
June 1 - 4 (Monday - Thurday)
9 AM - 3 PM
A Maker's Circle
8 Hacklebarney Rd
Pottersville, NJ
June 1 - 4 (Monday - Thurday)
9 AM - 3 PM
A Maker's Circle
8 Hacklebarney Rd
Pottersville, NJ
En Plein Air Painting
Experience the magic of Mount Desert Island as you paint En Plein Air. A basic review of outdoor set-up, palette organization, composition, and atmospheric color theory will be covered; however, most of the time spent together will be “hands-on” in the field with individual instruction at four select locations on the Island’s beautiful coves and shores.
The half-day sessions provide you the opportunity to work in the mornings with the instructor, leaving you the afternoons to continue to work independently and process the day’s lesson. Pack a lunch and paint all day!
The half-day sessions provide you the opportunity to work in the mornings with the instructor, leaving you the afternoons to continue to work independently and process the day’s lesson. Pack a lunch and paint all day!
