Painting lessons & creative workshops for emerging artists

In Portland, Maine

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Classes & Workshops

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Private Painting Lessons

 

Scenes from the studio (via instagram)....

The ability to mix accurate colors is one of the most important skills a painter can have. My students learn to mix their own oranges, purples, greens, browns, blacks, grays, and everything in between using a limited palette of primary pigments. From there they can mix almost anything. Convenience colors or special pigments can be added to the palette later whenever needed, but this foundation makes them almost unnecessary. #painting #palette #colormixing
The cool thing about this group of paintings is that they all used the SAME reference image and came up with such different perspectives. Goes to show there is no one "right" way to capture a landscape, so much of the artist comes through. Again I didn't get a good photo of every one, but all 10 of them were 👌. #painting #abstractlandscape
Here are a few student paintings from Saturday's abstract landscape painting workshop. They all did such creative things, embracing a bolder, faster pace and using big brushes. These are cropped and it's only a small selection but I wanted to share. #studentwork #landscapepainting #artworkshop
Amazing to see what value alone (using one pigment plus white) can do. This was a nice warm up for a day of painting. #valuestudy #painting #landscapepainting