WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS

February 26, Saturday, 9-4p.m. Dolores Mitchell workshop on “Old Master Under-painting, Glazing and Impasto Techniques for Oil Painting.” No experience is needed. The $50 fee includes a masonite panel and black and white gesso. Bring oil painting materials, or for a $5 materials fee, they will be supplied, except for brushes. In the morning, participants will produce a grey value underpainting of a still life. Dolores will discuss ways to create a center of interest. Panels will dry during the lunch break. In the afternoon, Dolores, using oil paints, demonstrates glazing and impasto techniques in color. Participants complete paintings and a critique follows.

March 19, Saturday 9-4 p.m. Maria Phillips will offer a watercolor workshop on the “Charcoal Resist” technique. The $50 fee will include the powdered charcoal and fixative. Call for information.

April 9, Saturday, 9-4 p.m. Ray Kruger, back by popular demand, will offer an outdoor painting workshop for all media ($60 fee). Call gallery to reserve a space.

This workshop is in conjunction with our special program, "A month of Sundays--and Saturdays," a painting campaign in Chico gardens. The $20 enrollment fee includes 14 gardens to paint in, participation in a "Fresh Paint" sale, and inclusion in our May exhibit of the same name. Call gallery for enrollment form.

June 18, 9-4 p.m. A Creativity Workshop: Dolores and Maria will give this day long ‘spa’ for the imagination. Our first creativity workshop was a great hit; it proved to participants that dorment creative urges can spring to life through play with materials, sounds, words, and sights. This workshop suits all ages and all levels of art experience—even no experience at all! People in stressful occupations such as health professionals, mothers, fathers, teachers and business people find pleasure and relaxation in a day devoted to the imagination. Let us know if you’d like to be informed of the date for our next Creativity Workshop.