Choose
a Workshop for your organization!
"Master Disaster, 5 Steps to Finishing Your Paintings."
Taking a painting to completion
is, by far, the hardest part about art. This course will help
you though the last 20 per cent of your painting. Finishing is
not magic, but methodical repetition of these 5 steps will make
it look like it is. Through out this course artists will be asked
to work on unfinished, problematic paintings. To "kill them
or cure them." This course is the foundation of my new book
and DVD, Master Watercolor Disaster, 5 Ways to Rescue Desperate
Watercolors. Published by North Light Books, April, 2007.
(The workshop needs to be 4 or 5 days long and is designed for
students at all levels.)
Other
Workshop Themes to choose from:
"Design
Strategies"
Explore value
and design strategies to take a boring painting beyond what you
ever dreamed possible. Value strategies are by far the strongest
way to create remarkable paintings. Learn that you can push a
painting toward one of these strategies at any stage of the work.
You will finish a bomb of a painting and create a reference "flip"
book that will become your painting bible. (2 days--for all artists)
"Color
Strategies"
Study the color
plans that have created masterpieces throughout the ages. By pushing
your painting toward one of these strategies, you will learn to
organize your palette, express moods and content and pull your
paintings together. Create mature, unified and polished works.
Discover how to avoid "mud." Learn to paint not like
me, but like yourself--only better. (2 days--This course can be
combined with the value strategy course for a 3 to 4 day workshop.
For all artists)
"Content
through Color Strategies, Fracturing and Borders."
Content, putting yourself
and your ideas into your paintings, is difficult for some to fathom–and
harder to teach. This course approaches content in a manageable,
concrete way that will open new doors of creativity for you. Through
the study of the color plans that have created masterpieces, you
will learn to reinforce the mood of your painting. By fracturing
and creating borders, you will make separate areas for additional
thoughts and information about your topic. Content. Content is
everything. Content is what makes a painting a work of art. (4-5
day workshop)
"Paint
on Location/Polish in the Studio"
Painting outside
is both invigorating and overwhelming. The work that most of us
do on location comes out either weak or very similar to most other
location paintings. This course is designed to address these three
problems. Learn to enjoy painting outside. Learn to create gutsy
and unusual paintings, and then carry these lessons into a series
of paintings from your references.
Each day you will sit in a lovely location, absorb its ambience,
and study it for unusual perspectives. Then, returning to the
studio, we will brainstorm and develop numerous possible designs
and color strategies to create unique "landscapes."
(4-5 days)
"Travel
Sketching."
This workshop
will give you the confidence to sketch while traveling. Broken
up into five individual steps, this sketching style can fit beautifully
into your travel constraints. The course can be taught outside
at your location, or bring me along on a trip--I love to travel
and spend serious time with students and artists. See my Italian
sketches for some ideas.
"Watercolor 101,
Jump Start Your Art"
You can learn to use this vibrant,
portable media in "Watercolor 101," a 2-4 day workshop.And
learn not to fear it, for corrections can and will be made at
any point in your paintings.
But don't limit yourself to the technical aspects of the media.
Through discussions, slides and a project, we will explore "content"--what
makes a painting a work of art. You will leave this course with
a plan for future growth, how to work in a series. This introduction
to watercolor is also an introduction to becoming an artist.
All of these
courses have been taught from Vancouver, B. C. to Beaufort, S.C.,
from to Wisconsin to the Asociacion Acuarelistas de Puerto Rico.
With two degrees in education,
I love teaching and pride myself in it. With a Master's Degree
in Learning and Behavioral Disorders, trust me, I can teach anyone
and handle any classroom management "challenge."
If I need to fly to your location, travel cost and time is a major
problem. 4 or 5 day workshops (or combinations of workshops) are
the best bet for both your organization and myself. To discuss
the wonderful possibilities that I can offer, write me at susan@tregay.com