Workshops — Pickle Street School Studio

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Pickle Street School Studio

Pickle Street School Studio is a one-room school building that has been renovated into a working art studio located in scenic Monterey Township, Michigan. Transformed into an art studio, Pickle Street offers a variety of arts and enrchment classes and workshops.

2980 134th Ave Hopkins, MI, 49328 United States

616-896-9090

269-686-6617

2980 134th Avenue, Hopkins, Michigan

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THE JOY OF PAINTING WITH GOUACHE
May
15
to May 16
gouache

THE JOY OF PAINTING WITH GOUACHE

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with Sharon Griffes Tarr

This workshop explores the varied effects of painting with gouache and it’s unique ability to be both opaque and transparent. You can play with the water-to-paint ratio to change the texture and coverage of your work to create depth and richness in your paintings.

Learn mixing of colors, experiment with creating various shades and tones. You might be surprised by the beautiful hues you can achieve. Gouache can be used on various surfaces like watercolor paper, illustration board, or even toned paper.

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DYNAMIC DESIGN THROUGH MOVEMENT AND COLOR
Sep
11
to Sep 12
gouache

DYNAMIC DESIGN THROUGH MOVEMENT AND COLOR

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with Sharon Griffes Tarr

This workshop explores the use of design, color, contrast and movement in your painting. Sharon can help you increase viewer interest using your medium of choice. Great for advanced beginners and above skill levels in all painting mediums. This is a great chance to learn from a master artist!

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How to Create 3-D Effects in Your Work
Jun
25
to Jun 27

How to Create 3-D Effects in Your Work

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with Sharon Griffes Tarr

This workshop explores how we use and portray light effects, how value and color temperature are essential in creating visual distance and the feeling of space in art. You will address these three elements through lectures, instructor demo’s and from still life examples. There will be plenty of hands on attention working from still life, as well as landscape photographs.

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Acrylic Polyptych Workshop
Jul
26
to Jul 27

Acrylic Polyptych Workshop

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with Gail Bokor

Polyptych means “many panels” and this workshop includes six 8”x8” wooden panels. We will use use mixed media techniques with acrylic paints, while creating individual paintings using design formats and compositional challenges. Each panel will stand alone as a work of art. However placing them together in two rows using line, color, shape, and texture panels will be visually joined  them to create a 24”x16” polyptych. You can use it for an art puzzle on a coffee table or adhere it to a panel and frame. A two-day workshop is challenging to the beginner or advanced artist. 

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How To Paint Loose and with Suggestion
Jun
21
to Jun 23

How To Paint Loose and with Suggestion

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with Sharon Griffes Tarr

In a good painting, the artist expresses what is important to them in a meaningful way.  An artist’s personal process is fundamental in supporting the manner in which a painting speaks to an audience. In this workshop, students will discover how to begin and maintain a painterly looseness and how and when to build suggested definition where it counts for masterful story-telling. The workshop will conclude with the instructor’s popular visual critique of painting on acetate over-layed on a student’s work to correct errors and add emphasis where needed.

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The Art of Pouring
Jun
6
to Jun 7

The Art of Pouring

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with Gail Bokor

A different approach to applying paint! Exciting results from doing dirty pours, to swiping, to a more controlled approach,  you will watch "paint play" as pigments merge together to form shapes and cells. Using acrylic, watercolor and even tempera paint, you will see almost immediate results, and may take your paintings as far as your experience will let you. This workshop is geared to all levels of creative experience. Warning: highly addictive!

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