Workshop | Orchid Painting with Oil on Aluminum

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Orchid Painting with Oil Paint on Aluminum

$60

Explore using oil paint on aluminum as you create a painting of orchid flowers!

The instructor will be guiding you through the process of creating the orchids on the aluminum while explaining the tactile differences between painting on this non-porous surface vs. canvas. The workshop will begin with the isntructor discussing texture, relief, and layering effects that can be used and achieved since the paint remains moveable.

This workshop is very experimental and process oriented with the instructor there to offer tips for using their own materials on this unique non-porous medium.This is a workshop best for those that have used oil paint before and are curious to paint on an alternative surface. This process-based session will provide an alternative creation experience. Try something new!

Students will be able to select color choice and brush style to their liking, resulting in each student's painting being different in the end.

Students need to bring at least these color oils (any version):

White, Black or Grey or Dark Brown, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Purple/Violet.

Variety of brush sizes to use on a 8" x 10" piece of aluminum.

All other materials provided!

Instructor Biography

Nickki Lewis-Parker

Nickki is a new artist, who despite a lifelong dream of being an Engineer, during her last year and a half in college was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Her first symptom being vision lost in her left eye for nearly a year, although she regained her sight, the growing list of symptoms would make her bed bound for a few years thereafter. As destructive and world-ending at the time, this has come to be a gift, at times. With the death of her Grandmother during the pandemic, a mysterious yearning to create something in hopes of lessening her mother’s grief washed over her, thus she created her first painting.In the two and a half years since, Nickki has attended classes at Boca Raton Museum of Art School and became an Affiliate Artist at Arts Warehouse. During this short timespan, she has met head-on the differences in the world and visual perspectives she lived without for over three decades. It has been an uncomfortable walk towards a new unfounded nor dreamt vision of her life but as well as turmoil of finding praise and pride again after over a decade worth of battling her own body for autonomy. Her hopes are to grow without restrain and creatively be aloud in her experimentation, no longer a prisoner to what Multiple Sclerosis took from her.As a late bloomer to art and viewing the world in a new whole perspective, 32-years of this gift has been lost to me, it has also afforded me the freedom to dive deeper. Multiple Sclerosis gave me the gift of sensitive sight and the realization of how much disability and intimacy are so mutually exclusive in media all around us. Whilst, the historic male gaze presented women in a shallow, one dimensional constraint of limits. My lens and greater hope is showcasing the multitudes of disabilities and the courageous fight to find their sexuality and space despite the constant infantilization of disabled folks. For now it is the warmth and culture of BDSM through one disabled woman’s eye. See the world through the eyes of a woman gazing into the juxtaposition of masculinity and femininity, where men and women are equal entertainment and free from all expectations.

** Please note, Refunds will be processed only if requested 72+ hours prior to scheduled workshop date/time. No refund will be given if requested less than seventy two (72) hours until scheduled workshop time for any reason. Only one ticket transfer will be allowed per person per workshop type, and will only occur if requested outside of the 72 hour mark of the registered workshop. To request a refund and cancel your ticket, please call 561-330-9614**

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