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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BOTANICAL PAINTINGS IN WATERCOLOR
May
29
to May 30

BOTANICAL PAINTINGS IN WATERCOLOR

with James Johnson

Enjoy watercolor with Jim Johnson in this two day workshop. You will view a demonstration, discuss painting materials and with Jim’s guidance, work on your own paintings. Jim approaches botanical paintings more as a study than as a full blown painting. It's really a portrait of the botanical subject with no background to compete with the subject. He paints from life and up close to capture the structure and some of the interesting textures.

This is a great chance to expand your abilities in watercolor.

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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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Exploring the Versatility of Gouache
Jun
7
to Jun 8

Exploring the Versatility of Gouache

with Sharon Griffes Tarr

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, this workshop will offer an opportunity to explore plein air painting with the fun and forgiving medium of gouache. Learn color mixing, brush handling, paint consistency and technique options. Gouache is also a great sketching medium for water medium artists and oil and pastel painters.

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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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Painting Mystical Light in Watercolor (and Pastel)
Jul
12
to Jul 13

Painting Mystical Light in Watercolor (and Pastel)

with Cedar Kindy

Have you ever want to paint the mystical light of the forest? This one day workshop uses several of Nita Engle’s watercolor techniques which does just that. The techniques we will explore are wet on wet, throwing paint, floating color, spraying, and flooding. While this approach is intuitive, the second layer of painting is more thought out and controlled. In this particular painting we will articulate trees in a forest, which are backlit and reflected in the water. Watercolor will be the dominate medium, but we may use pastel to create opaque overlays in the reflections, or paint  a heron on the banks. No experience is necessary. Experienced painters will loosen up in their approach.  All supplies are included.

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