with Barbara Schilling

This 2-day workshop is geared to help you find ways to simplify your landscape painting with an abstract approach. Using color and brushstrokes, you will learn to simply shapes and get suggestions for creating energy and mood in your painting. Learn a new approach to creatively painting the landscape!

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with Teri Utz Bersée

In this 2-day workshop Teri will explore many ways to paint with pastels, adding new techniques to your painting process. Using soft Pastels provide the most direct flow of pigment from human hand to paper of almost any medium. That makes using soft pastels very exciting, This workshop covers the tips and techniques that will enable you to develop your own style and build confidence with pastels.

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with Barbara Schilling

This workshop will be focused on how to paint exciting, highly textured paintings filled with energy. Utilizing thick textures, bold brushwork and vibrant colors, you can make a subject full of energy. It’s this energy that communicates with the viewer!

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with Teri Utz Bersée

In this 2-day class Teri will provide instruction in pastel, covering the tips and techniques that will enable you to develop your own style and build confidence with pastels.

An adult course for the beginner to the advanced artist.

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with Teri Utz Bersée

Improve your drawings and paintings in this 6-week figure beginning drawing workshop. Shapes, lines, and proportions will be demonstrated in this workshop. Broken into specific lessons each week, you will build a better understanding of drawing fundamentals.

An adult drawing course for the beginner to the advanced artist.

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with Barbara Schilling

This workshop is geared for any stage of artist that wants to learn the basics of painting with oil paints. Barbara will be demonstrating materials and various techniques in a step-by-step process. Painting in oils doesn’t have to be intimidating! Let’s make it simple!

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with Diane Van Noord

Learn the elements of 2D composition in three unique sessions. Create a collage, a landscape painting and a mixed media landscape painting in this 3-day workshop. You will learn to see the foundational elements applied with paints, brushes, palette knives, and more. Good for beginning or experienced artists.

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with Barbara Schilling

This workshop will be focused on how to paint exciting, highly textured paintings filled with energy. Utilizing color, textures, design and value you can make a subject vibrate. That energy can be peaceful and calming or lively and exciting.  It’s this energy that communicates with the viewer!

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with Kathleen Kalinowski

This workshop will increase artists’ confidence in the art of pastel work and take it to the next level by understanding how to layer color. Utilizing color temperatures, pastel application, and suggested details rather than drawing them are some of the highlights. Kathleen will demonstrate a creative composition, quick color studies, thumbnails and more.

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with Diane Van Noord

Learn how to use cold wax medium mixed with oil paint to create paintings that have a unique appearance, depth, and texture. Experimentation and discovery will be encouraged! Students will learn to mix oil and cold wax to paint two canvas panels and two wood panels (a total of four paintings). Brushes, palette knives, scrapers, etc. will be used to create semi-abstract and/or abstract works. Good for beginning or experienced artists.

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with Eric Michaels

This watercolor workshop will be focused on how to paint with a solid foundation with the arrangement and execution of a painting’s values and masses. Painting those masses in a simple yet accurate way, sets the stage for the main focal point to have maximum impact. Eric will demonstrate tips and techniques to assist the participants in a fun and educational experience.

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with Scott Kenyon

In this workshop students will learn the basic principles to drawing the Human Portrait. Students will work from a photograph of their choice, so they can continue to practice on their own. Students will learn the dimensions, anatomy and structure of the head and facial features when drawing a portrait. There will also be a strong emphasis on values, and edges.

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with Brenda Jiral

Have you ever wanted to start an artist’s journal but didn’t know where to begin? Do you often find yourself just wanting to sit down and sketch or experiment with new materials, without the pressure to plan a full-scale painting? Are you a creative person, wanting to expand your creative practice, sharpen your drawing skills or expand your visual observation skills? Then this class is for you!

In this 2-day workshop, you will learn to create your own artist journal using watercolors and waterproof pens. We will explore various additional materials and techniques as well as a variety of types of journals you may wish to try.

This workshop is for anyone from beginners to advanced artists, but you must have a basic understanding of drawing and painting with watercolors.

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with Eva Stramer Nichols

Discover easy techniques to painting fresh, luminous flowers in watercolor. Work with glazing, wet-into-wet, dry brushing, negative painting, lost and found edges and other unique watercolor techniques. Learn to use color theory, composition and design to make your florals shine. All levels welcome.

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with Kathleen Kalinowski

Learn more than just the basics of composition for planning and designing your landscape painting using photos. Starting with identifying the concept and story, then design with proportion, line and values. Know what to edit out and what to change to make a compelling composition based on your photos. Practice and learn how to simplify a good work flow using a number of compositional design elements on a variety of subjects.

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with Wendy L. Seelhoff

Join instructor Wendy Seelhoff in a 6 week class to explore the foundations of drawing that help artists become great painters. Drawing is the alphabet of all good art, and a successful painting is based on an accurate drawing. Drawing as an art in itself requires a long period of dedication. In this workshop, Wendy will be concentrating only on the areas of drawing that support good painting habits. She will go through how to use values, lines vs planes, space relationships, constructing 3D objects on a 2D surface, thumbnails and notans, and 1 point perspective. These are the knowledge base necessary to create a great looking painting and knowing these elements of drawing will make painting much more enjoyable.

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with Richard Jordan

In this two day workshop, Richard Jordan, Director of the Plein Air Artists of West Michigan, will share his approach to painting convincing water, point out common mistakes and how to avoid them. He will paint classroom and lakeside demonstrations and give one on one instruction as well as group wide critiques. 

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with Richard Jordan

Trees are grand living things and we relate to them on an emotional level. As artists, we should feel something when we paint trees, yet often they are handled as props. Whether they are the center of interest in your painting, or serve as the supporting cast, how you paint trees can either elevate them as giants or leave them looking small and uninspired.

In this special workshop, Richard Jordan, Director of the Plein Air Artists of West Michigan, will share his approach to painting trees and show you ways to give them life and a believable presence in your work. 

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