Winter 2025

WEEKEND FALL WORKSHOP


FULL WITH A WAITLIST


Traveling Sketchbook

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Feb 22-23

10am-4pm


Want to be able to capture that sense of a wonderful moment and place whether traveling or just hanging out? Or record the little and big items in your life to create a unique visual record? Participants will learn several easy and successful strategies for drawing, painting, collage and writing in situ to turn their adventures and everyday life into hand held works of art. Mini-field trips within and outside the museum will also offer source material and inspiration.


Basic watercolor and drawing skills are not essential but will be helpful. 

Introduction to Watercolor- Workshop


Visual Arts Center of Richmond

February 7-March 14th 

9:30am-noon


FULL but check right before first class for last minute openings



Get introduced to watercolors or refresh your knowledge of the medium. We’ll explore our materials, then cover application methods like wet–on–wet, glazes, blocks, resists and lifts. We’ll also cover work area set–up, composition set–up, lost and found edges, transferring imagery and methods for controlling the paint. With an emphasis on value as a way to produce convincing compositions, class discussions will touch on color theory, light, texture, and transparency. We’ll paint from direct observation and reference photos. Expect lots of one–on–one guidance and detailed demonstration from the instructor. Students will come away with a deeper understanding of this medium and its expressive possibilities.

Tentative Summer 2025

Value to Color  Weekend Workshop

Alexandria Art League (Torpedo Factory)

June 28-29, 2025

10am-4pm


Learn how value and color are related so that you can make them work for your benefit to give your paintings the impact or subtlety that you want them to have. The strategies taught create a stronger awareness of presence, eye travel and illusionary space in your work. Instead of focusing on one or two finished pieces, several studies will be created. This technique driven workshop has been featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine and is not media sensitive, watercolor, acrylic, and oils are all welcome. Please use a medium that is familiar to you. 


Prerequisites: basic drawing and painting.



Composition in Painting

VMFA Studio School

Mid Weekday  Late June to End of July 


Strongly executed composition will compel the viewer to spend time engaged with your work. Traveling with their eyes at a pace and path that you, the artist, have intentionally set.

This class will deconstruct the sequential consideration of design elements to allow the artist to set the painting’s mood, focal point and meaning as you wish. Beginning with some simple cut paper collage work to quickly understand and manipulate different compositional models, students will transition into analyzing famous historical works to planning and painting their own subject matter.

If time allows, extra exercises will include setting up your own still life and painting their own subject matter.

Students have to be familiar with the painting medium they plan to work with.


Prerequisites: Basic drawing and painting skills