How the Visual World Works: Intro to Oil Painting with Michelle Chrisman

Open to all levels of painter, this class will take all of the mystery out of working with oil paints and creating color. Exploring how the visual world works, we will have several set-ups to paint from that will help you "see" value & light, warm & cool color temperatures, edges, and understanding how light in the visual world works. You will increase your knowledge of the relationship between "seeing & evaluating" what you see into correct color mixing. This class will be helpful whether your interest is in realism to abstraction, tonalism to colorist.

Michelle will also teach you how to use brushes & palette knives, thin washes to thick impasto paint application.

Schedule:

Saturday December 3rd: 10am-5pm

Sunday December 4th: 10am-5pm

*There will be a scheduled break in halfway through the session

*Materials (What to Bring) list will be emailed to registered students at least three weeks before the start of the workshop

About the Teaching Artist:

Michelle Chrisman has been making her living as a full-time oil painter and instructor for over 25 years. She is a Plein Air Painter of the New Mexico landscape, a contemporary figure painter and a still-life painter. Michelle’s work is represented by The Signature Galleries in Santa Fe, NM & Scottsdale, AZ, in Taos by Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Weems Gallery & Romero Street Gallery in Albuquerque. Michelle is a Contemporary Colorist/Expressionist oil painter grounded in the Principals of Impressionism - how light works in the natural world.

*Current Harwood members are eligible to pay a reduced fee for this workshop. If you are a Harwood Member and you wish to take advantage of this discount please email Ruby at [email protected] as soon as possible to receive a discount code to be used at registration.

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