“Dive Into Abstract Painting: Exploring Fundamentals”
This 6 week online course is perfect for beginners who feel lost, overwhelmed and fearful about starting or resuming their creative practice after a long absence or for painters with some experience but who feel stuck and want to shake things up with new ideas.
Together we will explore what basic materials to have on hand, setting up your studio, how to get and stay loose, finding your artistic voice, and certain of the elements of abstract painting including color value, mark making, and composition, as well as various ways to start and move through a painting to the end.
Our focus is on you learning to trust your creative intelligence, which will lead to you to approach your painting practice with confidence and joy.
Registration for the course is now available.
“Dive Into Abstract Painting: Exploring Mark Making”
Find and develop your own unique expressive marks and painting vocabulary in this abstract acrylic painting workshop. Learn about a variety of painting and drawing tools, both conventional and unconventional, discover your own signature marks and how to communicate through them in your work. Create depth by layering marks with paint. Learn how to use marks to energize your work with contrast and value. You will be working on either paper or canvas with acrylic paint and different kinds of drawing tools such as charcoals, graphites, Stabilo Woody pencils, art crayons, pastels, and the like.
Registration for the course is now available!
“Boldly Abstract”
Through a series of guided exercises we will cover composition, color, value and how to work on multiples at the same time. Find your own signature with different mark making tools and learn how your marks enliven your paintings. You will learn how to harmonize any palette, move from analysis paralysis to painting success and to trust your artistic choices.
In this course you will clarify your visual abstract style and work in a series, which is imperative to selling your work to collectors, through galleries, or online. If you don’t know where to start in your abstract painting, or what makes an abstract painting strong or how to finish an abstract painting with finesse, then this course is for you! If your work is getting stale and you need a refresher, we can help you with that.
The course will be offered again in January 2021.
About The Instructors
Julie Schumer is a self-taught artist. Her work is shown in galleries across the United States and is in many private collections. She lives and works in Santa Fe, NM and since 2014 has been teaching expressive painting workshops.
Cat Tesla is an award winning international artist with gallery representation in the U.S. and U.K. She provides a unique perspective to abstract painting in a supportive environment. Formerly a genetic counselor, she has been a professional artist for 22 years.
“The Business of Art”
This course shows artists how to eliminate the chaos and confusion of turning your art into a business and stop feeling like an impostor and more like a valid professional artist by systematically building not only the proper mindset but also a successful business around your art.
Led by Cat Tesla and Julie Schumer, you’ll be learning from two seasoned professional artists combining decades of experience into one course! If you’ve always wanted to be a professional artist, there’s no better time to invest in yourself than now.
The course will launch in January, 2021.
About The Instructors
Julie Schumer is a self-taught artist. Her work is shown in galleries across the United States and is in many private collections. She lives and works in Santa Fe, NM and since 2014 has been teaching expressive painting workshops.
Cat Tesla is an award winning international artist with gallery representation in the U.S. and U.K. She provides a unique perspective to abstract painting in a supportive environment. Formerly a genetic counselor, she has been a professional artist for 22 years.
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Custom & Private Workshops
Julie offers custom & private workshops tailored to your individual needs and goals and can base a curriculum based on what you want to accomplish. Schedule your private workshop for a half day, full day (6 hours) or multiple days. Contact Julie to discuss a workshop for yourself or a small group.
For the time being, these workshops will only be available via Zoom or a similar video conferencing platform.