To lead a 2 day "Painting with Passion" workshop in beautiful Malibu, California on May 7th and 8th. I would love it if you could join me there!

So here are the particulars:

Painting with Passion

An Exploration in Paint, Collage, and Poetry

2 Day Workshop in Malibu, CA

May 7-8 2011

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Do you feel called to paint but you don’t know where to start? Do you feel a compelling desire to hear your unique voice and not just copy what everyone else is doing? Have you been painting for awhile but feel like your painting style has become stale or overworked? Do you want to learn to paint faces or to tell a story through paint and collage? If you answered yes to any of the above then this workshop is for you.

I will be your guide as we spend 2 full days together, learning to recognize the voice of our creative muse more clearly, following the “what if...” path wherever it might take us. Simple poetry writing exercises will be sprinkled in painting exercises and techniques which include:

How to paint a face my way

Ways to layer and incorporate collage papers into your paintings, seamlessly connecting the two

Background techniques

Telling a story with paint, collage, and found poetry

Learning to critique your work without being critical of yourself

Participating in a collaborative painting

Supply List:

-Acrylic paints in colors you like including white, black, blue, red, and yellow. (my favorites are: titanium white, carbon black, quinacridone crimson, naphthol red light, quinacridone nickel azo gold, hansa yellow medium, paynes gray, and phthalo blue)

-Paint Brushes, three or four, one a detail brush, a couple flat or rounds that are medium, and a 3/4” or larger brush for applying gesso and surface washes

Water container
Baby wipes or a couple cotton paint rags
Palette paper
Hair dryer (optional, for speeding up the drying process)
140# water color paper, a couple sheets of BIG paper (24” x 30) that you can tear into smaller substrates or several sheets no smaller than 11” x 14”
Small pile of paper scraps for collage, magazine pages work well here - include dark, medium, and light (i will be providing some in your packet as well)
Soft gel medium matte (I prefer Golden)
White gesso
Black Stabilo Marks-All Pencil
Black gel pen, one that writes on acrylic paint
White gel pen, one that writes on acrylic paint
Dull #2 pencil
Watercolor crayons

For registration information go here.

Comments

Hi Katie,
I LOVE your work and taking a class with you would be a DREAM!
I live about an hour and half drive south from Malibu. Can you tell me the exact address of the workshop? I would want to get home to my little boy rather than staying over the night and would have to work out logistics. If you could tell me the location that would be great.
Hugs,
Karen
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Posted by: karen | February 21, 2011 at 08:10 PM

Wow, how cool is that!! Sounds like a fantastic workshop. If only Malibu wasn't that far from Vienna :-/ *I'll grow myself some wings*

Posted by: Tanja | February 22, 2011 at 12:27 AM

Hello I just wanted to stop by and say that I watched your video last week on the createmixedmedia and well I just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me and letting my imagination run free.I created some new pieces and posted them on my blog if you would like to see,but really,I just wanted to thank you for the great video!!
Warmest Regards,Cat

Posted by: cat kerr | February 25, 2011 at 10:23 AM