Workshops
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April 2024
What Lies Beneath – Soft Pastel Painting Workshop
Meet your instructor
Barbara Ortiz
Capturing a moment of joyful observation and conveying that moment through the use of light and shadow, textures and edges in her representational oil paintings and pastel paintings is the
reason she paints. She enjoys the challenge of working in Plein Air. Due to the ever-changing light, holding onto that original visual image and incorporating a sense of weather and time of day takes immense focus. Barbara says ”This is my happy place.”
Barbara took life drawing classes in the North Jersey Art Center while in high school. She studied fine art at Monmouth College and Fairleigh Dickenson University. In 1984, Barbara moved to Cancun, Mexico where she resided until 1994. Upon returning to the United States, Barbara, along with her husband and two children, settled in Florida. In 2006 Barbara began taking classes at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, Fl. under the instruction of Terry Traumbauer – Norris and Stacy Barter. Over the last 15 years she has had the privilege of honing her painting skills in workshops and classes under Morgan Samuel Price, Mary Erickson, Lori Putnam, David Leffel, Greg Kreutz and Don Demers.
Barbara has participated in a number of invitational shows and paint outs. She has been recognized with awards for her work in both pastel and oil.
April 6 & 7, 2024
9:30a- 4p Studio B
- $300 Members
- $350 Non- Members
Workshop Description
Building a strong underpainting or foundation is the key to every successful painting. This workshop is designed for anyone who loves color and has an interest in learning how to paint with soft pastels or improve your existing skills. The workshop will focus on a variety of underpainting methods on which we will build our individual paintings. We will discuss different pastel papers and surface textures and how they affect your painting. Working to create an appealing painting we will consider composition, color harmony, pastel application techniques ( mark making ) and when to call it good.
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May 2024
Freedom of Acrylic
Meet your instructor
May 11 & 12, 2024
9:30a – 4p Studio B
- $300 Members
- $350 Non- Members
Workshop Description
Florida Artist, Jane Slivka, instructs her students to employ her own unique and energetic free-form technique, combining fast, bold and loose strokes and a signature tropical-color palette. In a lively, humorous, and easy to follow fashion, she exhibits the freedom, energy and spirit of her well known painterly style: and inspires students to complete several finished pieces which manage to capture a certain “happy” decorative quality without sacrificing the underlying principles of true art.
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