Workshop | Go Big or Go Home: Composition, Mediums, Glazes & Painting 2-Day

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Go Big or Go Home: Composition, Mediums, Glazes & Large-Scale Painting — A 2-Part Power Workshop

Get ready to crank your abstract work all the way up. This fierce 12-hour workshop splits into two powerhouse sessions, designed to take you from mastering bold composition to glazing mastery that adds depth and drama. (No makeup dates)

• Wednesday, September 24 | 10am - 4pm
• Wednesday, October 1 | 10am - 4pm

Part 1: Abstract Composition Foundations — Own Your Space, Own Your Power (6 Hours)Build on your color knowledge and step confidently into bold, magnetic compositions. Learn to balance chaos and control with killer composition structures that make your paintings jump off the wall. Layer, texture, and scale your work with no second-guessing—finish with a large, expressive painting that’s 100% you.

• Master 3 composition structures that pack a punch• Explore layering, texture, and dynamic scaling to refine your composition• Leave with a large-scale painting in progress (or complete!)• Develop fearless confidence to break your own rules

Part 2: Go Big or Go Home — Composition, Mediums & Glazing Magic (6 Hours)Add serious depth, drama, and tantalizing texture using acrylic gels and glazes — all while pushing your composition to new heights. Building off your Day 1 compositional foundation, dive into hands-on glazing techniques, layering translucent magic to create glowing surfaces bursting with complexity. Push your painting’s scale and impact with new medium tricks that will up-level every brushstroke and composition choice.

• Mediums demo: glazing, texturizing, and transparency hacks• Layer luscious glazes that bring your composition to life• Develop surface textures that invite touch and intrigue• Push boundaries with scale, layering, and compositional refinement

Why You’ll Love This Workshop:• Build bold compositions that command attention• Experience glazing techniques that add glowing depth and complexity• Walk away with a body of work—studies, sketches, AND a statement piece• Perfect for painters ready to own their abstract voice with confidence

Bring your passion. Leave with your artistic swagger fully unlocked. Let’s paint big, bold, and beautifully layered.

For experienced, intermediate students. Rule-breakers and risk-takers are especially welcome!

Exact required supply list will be shared via email before the workshop session and will give attendees ample time to prepare. Expect to need basics such as acrylic paint, brushes, palette knife, palette paper or palette, canvas, acrylic gel medium and glaze.

Bring smock, gloves, and that untamed creative spirit.

👉 Sign up now to claim your art supply list and start creating! Limited spots available. Registration at least a week in advance is requested.

Instructor Information:

Renée Rey, an award-winning artist born in Sagamihara, Japan, lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida.

Rey’s artwork has been recognized in national awards and exhibitions by notable museum and gallery professionals including Jade Dellinger, Director of Exhibits & Collections, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, FL; Julie Sasse, Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ; Erin Wright, Commissioning Editor and Producer, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Gisela Carbonell, Curator, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, .

Honored with the 2024 Dina Baker Fund Grant from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Rey's work has graced galleries across the globe. Recent solo shows include Bailey Contemporary Arts Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL, Tauni De Lessep Gallery at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL, and the Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL. Her group exhibitions span the Baker Museum, Naples, FL, Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, Studio 33, Spain, Art Brut Biennale, Netherlands, and Project Space Brut, South Korea.

Rey was awarded artist residencies at Bailey Contemporary Arts (2023-2024), School of Visual Arts in New York (2019), and Sun Peaks Center for Art and Sustainability (2016). Her art is in the collections of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, NY, First Albany, New York, NY, and Wasmer Art Collection at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL.

She served as the International Curator for the 2021 art exhibition "Lo Cierto Es Lo Incierto" held in Soriano, Uruguay.

A dynamic lecturer, Rey has inspired students at Florida Gulf Coast University, New College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. With nearly a decade of teaching drawing, painting, and creativity in Florida, Rey brings a wealth of experience and education to her work. Her background includes extensive undergraduate coursework in drawing, painting, 3-D design, performance art, and art history and graduate courses in film and computer art. She holds an MBA in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an A.A.S. in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design, an M.A. in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a B.A. in Judaic Studies from the University at Albany. This diverse educational foundation infuses her artistic practice with exceptional depth and perspective.

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