Kathleen Hudson, Paint Grand Traverse 2024 Awards Juror, will teach a 2 day workshop on painting luminous skies. Each morning will feature a presentation, full demo, and exercises for students focusing on value & composition. Demonstrations will be painted in oil, but students working in other mediums are welcome to take part. Afternoons will be devoted to one-on-one instruction. 

Points of study will include:

• Seeing as an artist: seeing shapes, value shifts, and color temperatures
• Planning your painting: envisioning your painting, using varied reference material, honing value and design, doing color studies
• Design: Cloud-heavy compositions allow for a lot of artistic license in design, so we’ll look at different types of directional movement that give a cloudscape dynamism.
• Stages of studio painting: drawing, block-in, color mixing, approaches to working a larger painting, refining texture & edges, tools for self-critique
• Experimentation: exercises you can do at home to continue your growth as an artist

One-on-one instruction will be individually tailored. Students are encouraged to email several cloudscape painting examples beforehand and list some specific things they would like to work on.

Attendance fee includes a 40-page full color workshop handbook.

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