Likeness Ink workshop series: Gouache Painting Journal

Likeness Ink Workshop Series: Gouache Painting Journal is a 6-week series. Sessions are designed so that you can sign up for the full series, or take one or more individual sessions. 

Here is the full description:

Learn the basics of color theory and composition while dabbling in gouache, taking cues from famous artists while developing your own style as you add paintings to your journal. 

Explore different color mixing combinations with every session. 

Gouache is a lovely medium as it is "rewettable" - you can rework a dried painting, and rewet paints that have dried on your palette. 

What: 6-week themed, evening art program for enthusiastic beginner to diehard intermediate artists.

For: adults and mature teens. 

When: 6:00-8:30pm, Wednesdays

Cost: $45/session. Available as individual sessions, or the full series. Sign up for the series and get a 10% discount.

Registration:  Workshop Registration  (registration deadline, January 1 for full series, one week ahead for individual sessions)

See registration link for recommended supply list, supplies available through Anne & Arthur Fine Art Supply in Hillsborough, NC, and other sources 

The series 

     January 8: Lights and Darks Your time to shine! We’ll be exploring radiance with a limited palette of earth tones, as did Rembrandt and other old masters, chiaroscuro painting by candlelight (and some LED lights). 

     January 15: Outsiders Only  

Jean DuBuffet was a rogue artist of his time, influenced by “outsider art” - the art of children and graffiti artists. We’ll be expressing our inner outsider, focussing on linear black and white and primary color compositions.

     January 22: Snowy Blue Landscape  

Feeling blue? Bring your favorite snowy landscape photo, or use the one provided, and learn to render it in mostly shades of blue. We’ll take a glance at Frederic Remington’s color palette. Whether or not you enjoy Westerns, you can’t deny the psychological impact of his choice of color, particularly of his blue(ish) Nocturnes. 

     January 29: Green Gardens  Influenced by Rousseau and other surrealists, and using botanical illustrations as inspiration, we’ll be styling our own imaginary green gardens in playful anticipation of spring.

     February 5: The Passion of Red  The Fauvists (“wild beasts of art”) explored the expressive, emotional qualities of red, and we will too, primarily focussing on the human form.

     February 12: Freestyle Color!  

Time to splash down and mix your own palette as we explore our feelings of love (and rejection!). Bring a photo of your loved one (person or pet). There will be plenty of chocolate to go around.