MIRA M WHITE

ABSTRACT
OCTOBER 3-5
FULL WORKSHOP PRICE: $350
DEPOSIT: $100

This workshop offers new possibilities for artists who want to enrich their work by incorporating multiple media.  It focuses on the amazing possibilities available in combining soft pastels, acrylics and collage. It is also about creating work that strikes a deeper meaning for you.  We will be building layers, adding, subtracting, scraping, using both homemade and commercial stencils, using soft pastels as both a drawing and painting medium, alternating with acrylics.

Our collage materials will be culled from painting exercises the first day, as well as papers and images you bring. This process will be structured initially as a base layer or underpainting. Acrylics, soft pastels,  and other dry media will contribute to this mixed media mash up!  I hope you will join me!

Who should take this workshop:

You are fascinated with Abstraction as a way to bring more personal meaning, excitement and  drama into your work.

You want to learn more about the soft pastel medium and how to incorporate it into your paintings.

You are obsessed with color, texture, and design and want to incorporate these elements more fully into your work:

You are fascinated with layering processes and the possibilities of layering and excavating- it is kind of an archeological dig.

You want to learn how to combine acrylics with pastels in a way that enhances rather than muddies.

You want to experiment with  mark making, doodling and develop a  more personal calligraphy and visual vocabulary.