PREMIER ARTIST WORKSHOPS
ART MIDWISCONSIN
Premier Artist Workshops help practicing artists to consider new approaches and ways of thinking. Accomplished teaching artists challenge participants to understand how they are approaching their work and why they might expand thinking for new results. These hands-on workshops inspire artists to advance their abilities and practice in a positive environment.
Art Midwisconsin also offers programming for Foundational Artist Workshops and Summer Evenings Lecture Series.
Art Fairs and Pop-ups
When: Tuesday, June 17, 6 pm – 8 pm (2 Hours)
Cost: $40
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructors: Kate Salas & Kathy Sletten
Join us to learn essential strategies for successful participation in fine arts and crafts fairs and pop-up galleries. This workshop will lead participants through topics such as booth design, event etiquette, fair applications, tax identification applications, credit card processing, choosing the right fairs and shows, inventory planning, pricing, branding, marketing, and selling. The instructors will set up a booth and talk about varying the set-up based on location opportunities. Whether you are just beginning or ready to refine your approach, this workshop will provide practical tools and advice to help you succeed.
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
New Approaches and Re-Approaches in Painting
When: Saturday, June 21, 9 am - Noon (3 Hours)
Cost: $75
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Pat Dobrinska
Welcome to stretching your creativity! Sometime we get trapped creatively in our own success as an artist. This class is designed to challenge you to do something a little different. I want you to bring a finished painting to class. Then in class I want you to do that landscape at a different time of day a la Monet. It could be front lit and the second painting back lit. Or you might paint a warm color for your underpainting and do the same subject matter over a cool color underpainting. Or you might do the one at home in oil and the one in class of the same subject matter in watercolor or pastel. The idea is to stir your creativity a little outside the comfort of your wheel house. Join us for a fun day making art with others!
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
The Painterly Sketch:
Creating Studies Using Graphite, Paints, and Mediums
When: Friday, July 11, 9 am – Noon (3 Hours)
Cost: $75
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Instructor: Dick Folse
For centuries, artists such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Constable, Corot, Sargent, and Cezanne have created smaller sketches and studies in the field and in the studio to capture a sense of the light, color, and mood. They have sketched combining graphite or charcoal with water or oil-based media to work out compositional ideas, and capture important details. These works are important art in their own right even though they often led to larger, more finished paintings. In this workshop, participants will explore the painterly sketch using graphite, charcoal, acrylic medium, watercolors, gouache, and oils.
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
Pleine-aire Painting
When: Saturday, July 12, 9 am - Noon (3 Hours)
Cost: $75
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Pat Dobrinska
Painting outside is an important experience in developing as an artist, because it forces you to really see. Rather than copying from a two-dimensional photograph onto a two-dimensional painting surface, you must evaluate what you see in the three-dimensional landscape and figure out what and how to get “that” on your two dimensional painting surface. If you are really seeing the landscape, you will discover many truths and realities about that which you are painting. No longer will you be painting from pure theory of “how to paint a landscape”, but you will truly understand and see that which you are painting. Your painting will reveal that knowledge and freshness.
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
Pleine-aire Painting
When: Saturday, July 19, 9 am - Noon (3 Hours)
Cost: $75
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Pat Dobrinska
Painting outside is an important experience in developing as an artist, because it forces you to really see. Rather than copying from a two-dimensional photograph onto a two-dimensional painting surface, you must evaluate what you see in the three-dimensional landscape and figure out what and how to get “that” on your two dimensional painting surface. If you are really seeing the landscape, you will discover many truths and realities about that which you are painting. No longer will you be painting from pure theory of “how to paint a landscape”, but you will truly understand and see that which you are painting. Your painting will reveal that knowledge and freshness.
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
Abstract Painting with Acrylics
When: Monday - Thursday, July 28, 29, 30, 31, 1 pm - 4 pm (12 Hours)
Cost: $170
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Anne Gary
Ignite your creativity in this playful abstract painting class. Students will experiment with acrylics, acrylic mediums (gels and texture pastes), collage and mark-making tools. Presentations will introduce and/or expand your understanding of the fundamentals of abstraction, as well as, a variety of different artists and compositions. Many exercises are offered and designed to explore the Elements of Art, composition and design principles. Let your imagination flow while expanding your artistic techniques and developing a new visual language of your own. You will add new techniques to your existing painting skills.
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
Color Theory for Painters
When: Monday - Friday, September 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 9 am - Noon (15 Hours)
Cost: $300
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Instructor: Dick Folse
Color Theory for Painters offers strategies and approaches for painters who want to explore making artwork with “color-formed” space and wish to harness their intuition about color in a guided manner. Many paintings may be colorful, but in these paintings, value not color directs visual perceptions. This workshop will help artists make art “in color” where the pictorial space is structured and defined using color. Participants will grasp a theoretical underpinning of color-formed space and expression, gain a sense of the historical evolution of color in art, develop the ability to know when a work is “in color”, and work toward achieving color-formed space and expression in their paintings. Each of the five sessions will include a review of painters in history that evolved the use of color in new ways followed by participants making examples of paintings in response to assigned color problems. This workshop is a great opportunity for practicing artists to better understand the role of color in painting.
Note: A supply list will be provided upon registration.
Registration prices include a 3.5% card transaction fee.
