Chromatic Kinship: Investigations in Color Environment and Relationships
Location: Scottsdale Artists School, Scottsdale, AZ
Dates: 9am - 4pm, Friday Jan 31st - Monday Feb 3rd, 2025
Cost: $550
Prerequisites: Previous oil painting experience

Description: Color in painting is so much more than identifying the local color of an object and attempting to match it! It is a fluid world of relativity and relationship, forms, reflections, and echoes. Like reverb in music, it helps objects feel like they inhabit a dimensional space filled with air and light. In this workshop, we will investigate these properties. Simple still life arrangements with colorful settings, reflected color, and surfaces ranging from matte to glossy will aid us in exploring the nature of the light source and its effects on color in both light and shadow. If you’ve ever struggled to achieve a sense of harmony, or find your shadows to be a bit dull, or your lights to be monochromatic, this workshop will equip you with an approach and framework for creating glow, belonging, and harmony in your paintings. This skill set beautifully and readily transfers to challenging aspects of figure, interior, and landscape painting.

Painting the Cosmos
Location: Arvada, CO
Dates: 9am - 4pm, Thursday May 31st - Sunday June 1st, 2025
Cost: $550
Prerequisites: Previous oil painting experience

Description: Striving to recreate in pigment the same iridescent flicker of color and light we perceive in the sky is one of my great, secret joys as a painter. I am excited to share some of my favorite techniques and tricks for capturing the ethereal mysteries of the sky with you, from dusk gradients and midnight darks to space dust and nebulous gasses. We will even spend a few hours working from life to investigate the deceptively simple glow of a candle flame before carrying these properties forward into other subject matter. During this four-day workshop, we will investigate the range of value, color, and ideal tools for painting celestial objects, including smooth surfaces, shaping tools, rich, dark transparent pigments, and stiff, sparkling lights. Creating “glow” is primarily about painting beautiful transitions and gradients—a widely transferable skill necessary for any subject matter. We will tackle these subtle transitions and changes in color with an alla prima approach, but the workshop will also include demos of glazing and velatura/e that can add even greater sophistication to your paintings.

Keeping it Fresh: Quick Studies in Oil

Location: Art Students League of Denver: 200 Grant St Denver, CO 80203 
Dates: 9am - 4pm, Fri-Sun Aug 16th - 18th, 2024
Cost: non-members: $360.75 members: $306.64
Prerequisites: Previous oil painting experience

Description: This fast-paced 3 day workshop invites students to explore the world of small, quick, alla primapaintings (under 1hr). Composition is paramount—we will focus on big relationships (shape, value, color). We will stress value structure and brushwork in monochrome, then dive into color theory with a split primary palette. Building confidence through repeated and varied decision-making is a primary goal of this workshop. The skills gained though playful quick studies greatly support other artistic practices that require speed, such as plein air painting and live figure/portrait painting.

Chromatic Kinship: Investigations in Color Environment and Relationships
Location: Arvada, CO
Dates: 9am - 4pm, Oct 24th - 27th, 2024 (four days)
Cost: $550
Prerequisites: Previous oil painting experience

Description: Color in painting is so much more than identifying the local color of an object and attempting to match it! It is a fluid world of relativity and relationship, forms, reflections, and echoes. Like reverb in music, it helps objects feel like they inhabit a dimensional space filled with air and light. In this workshop, we will investigate these properties. Simple still life arrangements with colorful settings, reflected color, and surfaces ranging from matte to glossy will aid us in exploring the nature of the light source and its effects on color in both light and shadow. If you’ve ever struggled to achieve a sense of harmony, or find your shadows to be a bit dull, or your lights to be monochromatic, this workshop will equip you with an approach and framework for creating glow, belonging, and harmony in your paintings. This skill set beautifully and readily transfers to challenging aspects of figure, interior, and landscape painting.

*This intimate class at my private studio has limited space. Reserve your spot now!