Workshop Content: Learn to use various mixed media combinations to build surfaces with depth and interest. With an emphasis on water soluble paints and mediums, we will be mixing it up by exploring how everything from gesso, acrylics, inks, mark making tools, and collage may be used to capture the imagination. You will be encouraged to take risks and work beyond your traditional practice in pursuit of your own personal language. These techniques may be applied to a variety of subject matters, styles, and surfaces to create your own unique artistic statement. Jean will focus on still life, abstract, and landscape subjects with an emphasis on design and personal style. Classwork will be part of the course.

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Biography: Jean is the author of “Expressive Portraits: Creative Methods for Painting People”. She has been painting for over twenty years, balancing her strong teaching abilities, and writing with her continuing aspiration to convey her ideas in visual form.

Jean’s traditional practice includes referential imagery of people, still life, landscape and abstraction. The layering of a variety of media offers Jean an assortment of possibilities within her work; quality of edge, line and texture all play a role within her imagery. Although Pederson is well known for her mastery of watercolors, mixed media has become an important venue for her creative expression.

Instructor Website: Jean Pederson