(can range from 4-6 hours; 10-15 students) This course is an introduction to creating an abstract painting from loose sketches in paint on watercolor paper and then mounting the paper on panel. Students will create a variety of sketches in paint derived or influenced by at least one object from nature. The sketches will be…

(can range from 4 – 6 hours; 10-15 students) This workshop is an introduction to the various ways that artists have approached abstraction, historically and in a contemporary context. The course will include contemporary art lectures. Assignments will begin with lectures of formal art elements including line, shape, color, but also materials, grids, and figurative…