July 22 to August 5 (Tuesdays) 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/Ym8JzpGhNBc
Workshop Description
For three weeks, you will explore intuitive acrylic and mixed-media painting and discover what feels exciting and natural for you. With exercises in week one discover how you naturally draw and paint from imagination using a colour palette you will mix first. You’ll be making and adjusting a mood board from week one to keep you grounded in your intentions for your work. Come to the workshop knowing what genre you want to concentrate on or with the intention to explore intuitive landscape, still life, pure abstraction or any combination of elements with Gabriella. See what emerges! In the last session you will confidently start to work on a small series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces to complete in your own time. Gabriella will be teaching and painting live so you are able to share work and ask questions at any point.
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Colour mixing creating a harmonious colour palette inspired by your past work and other current inspirations. A series of exercises to explore how you paint intuitively; your potential subject matter; composition; mark making; and emotion.
Week 2
Gabriella will share inspirational work by other artists and pieces of her own.
You will make many quick compositions on paper exploring what you enjoyed from week 1. Quantity over quality and follow your inspiration.
Consider experimenting on your preferred surfaces too this week.
Define your aims for the final pieces at the end of this session and before the next.
Week 3
Warm up exercises on a spare surface! Then you'll start on your series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces moving from one to the other.
Keep working on that spare if you prefer. You can share your work at any point for discussion or feedback.
Workshop Materials List
Note on paints:
Gabriella is primarily an acrylic painter who occasionally uses oil and mixed media, she will be using Golden Acrylic paints - 237ml tub of Primary yellow, Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan and a Titanium white (any brand) and a few other
acrylics available in her studio that are much cheaper - System 3 brand from Daler Rowney. Any acrylics you have or indeed any type of paint that you want to explore is fine. We will be exploring colour mixing and different palette options in the first week as we explore mark-making and the emotion of colour. Gabriella will also be using some Caran Dache Neocolour 1 ( the non-water soluable ones), she won't be using charcoal or oils but you could!
You are welcome to bring along your own choice of paints; ideally: a warm and a cool version of red, blue and yellow so that you have at least six paints plus magenta which is a bit of a super-power colour. If you hate magenta ignore that!
You could also bring a dark colour like Paynes grey, burnt umber or even black if you love it. Gabriella rarely uses black. If you don't have the three Golden colours this palette of system 3 acrylics will serve you well:
Cadmium red & alizarin crimson, cerulean blue & ultramarine, and cadmium yellow and lemon, plus Paynes Grey ( and Magenta;). Bring your favourites!
All your favourite tools, for example:
a variety of brushes
masking tape
palette knives
Gelli plate
Caran Dache Neocolour 1
Or oil pastels if you're using oil paint or like to use oil pastels over acrylic ( Gabriella will not be using oils)
A palette/s for your type of paint - eg - a StayWet one or a tray with an absorbent wet layer, over which you put baking parchment or kitchen paper for acrylics
whatever you normally use for a palette if you're not using acrylics
120 grade sandpaper - not essential but useful to reveal areas of underpainting
Your choice of medium to extend your paint - eg matt medium for acrylics
Gesso for paper/card and canvas surfaces* or sandable gesso (optional) if you will be working on firm surfaces: like wood panels or canvas board.
Several loose sheets of thick smooth paper do exercises on in week 1 ideally thick enough to take wet paint and pre-primed with gesso ( not essential but makes for a more robust surface. We have thick "cartridge paper" in the UK, you could experiment on anything - even cardboard primed with Gesso.
If you like to collage (not essential):
July 22 to August 5 (Tuesdays) 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/Ym8JzpGhNBc
Workshop Description
For three weeks, you will explore intuitive acrylic and mixed-media painting and discover what feels exciting and natural for you. With exercises in week one discover how you naturally draw and paint from imagination using a colour palette you will mix first. You’ll be making and adjusting a mood board from week one to keep you grounded in your intentions for your work. Come to the workshop knowing what genre you want to concentrate on or with the intention to explore intuitive landscape, still life, pure abstraction or any combination of elements with Gabriella. See what emerges! In the last session you will confidently start to work on a small series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces to complete in your own time. Gabriella will be teaching and painting live so you are able to share work and ask questions at any point.
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Colour mixing creating a harmonious colour palette inspired by your past work and other current inspirations. A series of exercises to explore how you paint intuitively; your potential subject matter; composition; mark making; and emotion.
Week 2
Gabriella will share inspirational work by other artists and pieces of her own.
You will make many quick compositions on paper exploring what you enjoyed from week 1. Quantity over quality and follow your inspiration.
Consider experimenting on your preferred surfaces too this week.
Define your aims for the final pieces at the end of this session and before the next.
Week 3
Warm up exercises on a spare surface! Then you'll start on your series of intuitive works or one or two larger pieces moving from one to the other.
Keep working on that spare if you prefer. You can share your work at any point for discussion or feedback.
Workshop Materials List
Note on paints:
Gabriella is primarily an acrylic painter who occasionally uses oil and mixed media, she will be using Golden Acrylic paints - 237ml tub of Primary yellow, Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan and a Titanium white (any brand) and a few other
acrylics available in her studio that are much cheaper - System 3 brand from Daler Rowney. Any acrylics you have or indeed any type of paint that you want to explore is fine. We will be exploring colour mixing and different palette options in the first week as we explore mark-making and the emotion of colour. Gabriella will also be using some Caran Dache Neocolour 1 ( the non-water soluable ones), she won't be using charcoal or oils but you could!
You are welcome to bring along your own choice of paints; ideally: a warm and a cool version of red, blue and yellow so that you have at least six paints plus magenta which is a bit of a super-power colour. If you hate magenta ignore that!
You could also bring a dark colour like Paynes grey, burnt umber or even black if you love it. Gabriella rarely uses black. If you don't have the three Golden colours this palette of system 3 acrylics will serve you well:
Cadmium red & alizarin crimson, cerulean blue & ultramarine, and cadmium yellow and lemon, plus Paynes Grey ( and Magenta;). Bring your favourites!
All your favourite tools, for example:
a variety of brushes
masking tape
palette knives
Gelli plate
Caran Dache Neocolour 1
Or oil pastels if you're using oil paint or like to use oil pastels over acrylic ( Gabriella will not be using oils)
A palette/s for your type of paint - eg - a StayWet one or a tray with an absorbent wet layer, over which you put baking parchment or kitchen paper for acrylics
whatever you normally use for a palette if you're not using acrylics
120 grade sandpaper - not essential but useful to reveal areas of underpainting
Your choice of medium to extend your paint - eg matt medium for acrylics
Gesso for paper/card and canvas surfaces* or sandable gesso (optional) if you will be working on firm surfaces: like wood panels or canvas board.
Several loose sheets of thick smooth paper do exercises on in week 1 ideally thick enough to take wet paint and pre-primed with gesso ( not essential but makes for a more robust surface. We have thick "cartridge paper" in the UK, you could experiment on anything - even cardboard primed with Gesso.
If you like to collage (not essential):
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