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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DIVING DEEP INTO BROKEN COLOR
Oct
2
to Oct 3

DIVING DEEP INTO BROKEN COLOR

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with Barbara Schilling

This 2-day workshop is geared to help you find ways to use distinct brushstrokes of different colors side-by-side allowing the viewers eye to optically mix them rather than blending the paint.

Barbara will demonstrate with instruction how to use this technique. Individual instruction as well as final critiques will be highlighted.

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Abstracting the Landscape
Oct
17
to Oct 18

Abstracting the Landscape

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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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Learning techniques for Creative Impressionism
Oct
12
to Oct 13

Learning techniques for Creative Impressionism

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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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Simply Learning to Paint in Oils
May
19
to May 20

Simply Learning to Paint in Oils

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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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Textures with Palette Knife and Brush
Sep
30
to Oct 1

Textures with Palette Knife and Brush

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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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Luminous Landscapes in Pastel
Sep
18
to Sep 19

Luminous Landscapes in Pastel

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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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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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Architectural Landscape
Aug
24
to Aug 25

Architectural Landscape

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with Connie Kuhnle

    No need to fear putting that beautiful structure in your painting or avoiding those inviting charming scenes because they contain buildings. In this workshop Connie will discuss and demonstrate how architecture can add interest to your painting, some simple perspective principles that will help you to "make it look right". How to make structures sit naturally in the landscape, and the importance of reflected light and more!

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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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