Workshops
Sue Archer
January 16-18 2024
In this workshop, you will experience how Sue creates and designs her imagery and achieves a “strong” quality of light. You will be introduced to many topics and concepts dealing with design and composition. Your goal should be to decide how these ideas could apply to your painting,
your subject matter, your intent and your style. Elements and principles of design need to be understood; They are not rules, only guidelines. You, as the artist, need to learn how to use them successfully in your work! Learning about design takes a lifetime of study. Let’s get started!
A course designed to inspire your creativity by learning to “see” and experience some different design and composition concepts; and understand the power of planning even if you are an “intuitive painter”. Designed to inspire adv. beginners and provide a review and challenge for the advanced student.
GCWS Member $350 | Nonmember $395
In this workshop you will experience how Sue creates and designs her imagery and achieves a “strong” quality of light. You will be introduced to many topics and concepts dealing with design and composition. Your goal should be to decide how these ideas could apply to your painting,
your subject matter, your intent and your style. Elements and principles of design need to be understood; They are not rules, only guidelines. You, as the artist, need to learn how to use them successfully in your work! Learning about design takes a lifetime of study. Let’s get started!
Donne Bitner
February 20-22 2024
Supply list:
1 sheet heavy illustration board cold or hot press
1 sheet Arches hot press watercolor paper 22×30
2 or more cradled wood panels 8×8 and up
Any favorite tube acrylics
Fluid acrylics 1 oz and up (gold, red, blue)
Quin Nickel Azo Gold ,Blue Turquoise and Quin Crimson work well
Selection of small canvas wrapped pieces
Paper plates, water container, pencil, paper towels
Any stencils, textured paper or stamps
Brushes, not your good watercolor brushes but soft bristle hardware or old wc brushes
small jar gloss acrylic medium
rubbing alcohol spray bottle (not atomizer) for water or alcohol
Cost: GCWS Member $350 | Nonmember $395
“Acrylic Exploration. Using acrylic like watercolor”
Working with fluid and heavy body acrylics on paper, wood, and canvas Different surface applications such as
joint compound will be enhanced with stencils, stamps, and texture to create individual expressions.
GCWS Member $350 | Nonmember $395
Supply list
1 sheet heavy illustration board cold or hot press
1 sheet Arches hot press watercolor paper 22×30
2 or more cradled wood panels 8×8 and up
Any favorite tube acrylics
Fluid acrylics 1 oz and up (gold, red, blue)
Quin Nickel Azo Gold ,Blue Turquoise and Quin Crimson work well
Selection of small canvas wrapped pieces
Paper plates, water container, pencil, paper towels
Any stencils, textured paper or stamps
Brushes, not your good watercolor brushes but soft bristle hardware or old wc brushes
small jar gloss acrylic medium
rubbing alcohol spray bottle (not atomizer) for water or alcohol
Teresa Kirk
March 19-21 2024
In this workshop students will do exercises that will help them to make their own unique marks as a surprise element for their work. Students will play with these ideas along with the possibilities that will open as they work transparently and with opaque paint in watercolor and gouache.
What you’ll gain:
This workshop will engage your intuitive creativity. Demos, group discussion and constructive critiques along with painting time are a part of this workshop. You will build upon that mark making process through negative painting, color mixing and design formats.
GCWS Member $350 | Nonmember $395
In this workshop students will do exercises that will help them to make their own unique marks as a surprise element for their work. Students will play with these ideas along with the possibilities that will open as they work transparently and with opaque paint in watercolor and gouache.
What you’ll gain:
This workshop will engage your intuitive creativity. Demos, group discussion and constructive critiques along with painting time are a part of this workshop.