The great part is you don't have to come up with any supplies -- just show up to have fun with your personal creative time while I gently guide your muse to be free with yourself and trusting of your own intuition. Beginner and intermediate welcome. Workshop descriptions below schedule.
I'm taking 2025 off from teaching outside my home until December, however, weekly classes are available at my home for the silk scarf painting thru airbnb.
If you or a couple friends want to choose one of the seven 3 1/2 hour workshops offered below, we can set something up at my home to meet everyone's schedule. $90 for 1 person; $60 per person for 2 or 3 people maximum. Includes all supplies.
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HAWAII ISLAND ART WORKSHOPS
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December 20/ Saturday 9-12:30pm / Volcano
PAINT A SILK SCARF + 10x10" SAMPLER USING HOT WAX TOOL
www.volcanoartcenter.org $75 + $20 supply + $5 reg.fee
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Your Date Choice / Bring 2-3 people / 2 hour workshop
PAINT A SILK SCARF at my Keaau home studio
$78 ea. includes supplies / Available weekly thru www.airbnb experiences
click this link for full details at airbnb
Private workshops for 1-3 people available at my home studio in any of the workshops below. Email inquiry.
PEN SKETCHING & WATERCOLOR WASHES
Create 3 paintings on 6”x 9” cold press paper - great size for journal travel recording for lively illustrative looks.
- Discuss samples: drawing vs. color
- Experiment with simplified line exaggerations and painting outside the lines
- Learn pen techniques: hashing, shading
- Practice thumbnail drawing & rapid pen drawing
- Learn watercolor techniques: washes, blending, glazing, dry brush, lift off
- Includes painting floral still life and from landscape photo
- 4 page handout to remember the steps
Poured Watercolor Floral Contrast Workshop
In this workshop, you’ll draw, mask, pour, mask and pour again, then detail with specific watercolor techniques of gradation, drybrush, negative painting, stencil lifting. Students create an 8 x 10” painting on cold press 140 lb watercolor paper, by working from light to dark in 4 stages.
A still life floral photo is provided in color and gray tones to show values patterns of light, midtones, and dark. Completion of each stage will be done step by step together with the instructor.
Big Island artist and instructor Patti Pease Johnson says, “It’s about being both free with yourself for the pours, which are always a surprise, then disciplined for the details of the main flower, followed by abstraction qualities to complete the background. I think the final painting is complemented by the contrasts.”
