Tuesdays, June 5 – 26 (4 sessions), 6-8:30pm Join me for this casual but informative weekly plein air class! Each week we will meet in a Milwaukee area park to paint the great outdoors. Demonstration and discussion will help students to work toward individual goals. This class will be geared toward oil painting, but acrylics [...]
June 28-30, 2012 9am-4pm Give yourself the freedom to really learn to paint by letting go of subject matter and the expectations of a single painting. Paint the same subject in a minimum of 20 variations to allow for fun experimentation and fresh perspectives on your subject.Your journey will include learning varied techniques of using [...]
July 2-3 9am-4pm Work from your own photographs to create stunning landscape paintings with depth, atmosphere, and feeling. Study the elements of a landscape, including successful composition. Also, learn acrylic painting techniques that can bring your chosen scene to life on canvas. Cost: 245 Where: Peninsula School of Art PO Box 304 3900 [...]
Wednesdays, July 18 & 25, 6:30-8:30pm With a focus on design and composition, you will start with a theme or idea and create mixed media works which incorporate painting, drawing, cut paper, pasting, layering, etc. Demonstrations and lectures will be used to help you explore combinations of these materials to create unique works. Techniques for [...]
Tuesdays: July 24 & 31: 6-8 pm Instructor: Beki Borman $35 Member/ $39 Non-Member Learn how your favorite photos and images can translate into sensitive and powerful drawings. We will cover a brief introduction on drawing, then focus on how to translate photographs using drawing techniques and tools. Perfect for beginners, or more experienced artists just [...]
Mondays, July 30 – August 20, 6:30-8:30pm Learn pastel drawing while focusing on landscape as subject matter. Materials, tools and techniques will be covered as you learn how to layer and blend pastels to achieve gradation, depth and atmosphere. Color discussions and demonstrations will help you layer color to achieve desired results. We will start [...]
Tuesdays: August 7 & 14: 6-8 pm $35 Members/ $39 Non-Members Composition is a necessary component of successful artwork, and this class will focus on just that. Starting with definitions and language, students will develop an understanding of how we react to an artwork based on its composition. We will use diagrams and examples to [...]
Oct 5-6 9am-4pm Employ both traditional and cutting-edge acrylic techniques on the same painting to take your work to the next level. Experiment with layering, carving, drawing, washes, brush stroke variety, and much more. Where: Peninsula School of Art PO Box 304 3900 County F Fish Creek, WI 54212 To register: contact the [...]
Discovering New Techniques in Watercolor
Saturday, June 2, 10am-2:30pm Beki’s Studio: 2625 S. Greeley Street, 3Q Milwaukee, WI 53207 Students will be submerged in the potential uses of watercolor with an emphasis on experimentation. The class will focus on technique beginning with several demos that cover application, mark making, layering, and gouache, stamping, etc. Students will be encouraged to creatively [...]