Workshop Content: Get ready to unleash your creativity in a vibrant workshop that’s all about fun and exploration! We will be diving into the world of abstract art, using an inspiring piece as our visual guide. This is your chance to discover exciting techniques with acrylic paint and create work that’s not just expressive, but truly personal and contemporary.

Expect engaging demonstrations and personalized support every step of the way, along with plenty of time to get you hands messy and paint! You’ll have the opportunity to dive deep into you artistic process, helping you connect more profoundly with your creative spirit.

This class encourages experimentation and fosters a sense of community, and everyone is welcome to join!

Supply List:

• Stretched Canvas 24 x 24 or size of your choice
• Acrylic paints, Black, White, Yellow Ochre, Red Oxide or Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Yellow, or additional paints colors of your choice,
• Suggested tools
  • Pencils: Regular and White china pencil for mark-making, colored, etc
  • Brushes: A variety of sizes, including at least one large brush for a big canvas
  • Palette knives, sponges, paper towels, water container, one or two personal tools for moving paint around (just grab something), water spray bottle, rag.

Biography: Catron is a full-time abstract artist with over 30 years of experience. In 2020, she was honored to be named Nashville Art Creator of the Year by Nashville Lifestyle Magazine. Her work has been showcased in 14 galleries across the southeast and featured in corporate and residential settings throughout the US. Throughout her career, Catron has been interviewed and featured in various magazine, TV and radio shows, including HGTV, PBS, Nashville Lifestyles, and Legends magazines. Catron was also voted to participated in the Art Wall for the AT&T building in downtown Nashville. The Christmas day bombing destroyed the wall, but it couldn’t ruin her spirit. In response, the Color Nashville Art Project invited her and other local artists to participate in painting joyful scenes over the boarded-up windows, bringing beauty and hope to the affected area.

Recently, in addition to her time creating at the easel, Catron has enjoyed leading abstract painting soiree’s combining fun, fellowship, and inspiration for corporate events and private parties. These events provide a safe and enjoyable environment for both painters and nonpainters to have fun and create something unique and personal.

Instructor Website: https://www.catronwallace.art

Workshop Content: Want to have some fun? Try something new? Yupo has some surprises for you. Did you know you can weave it; burn holes in it; fold it; paint on it; collage on it; write on it; stamp it; draw on it and apply any of these techniques in combination. Join this workshop and we’ll experiment and have fun. We’ll try several media and techniques and combine techniques. I’ll demonstrate, you’ll try your hand at it and we will critique the results at the end of each day. We will learn by doing and observing what others create.

Day One: We will go over the unique qualities of Yupo and how these qualities make wonderful and innovative paintings possible. I will demonstrate painting with watercolor, acrylic and alcohol paints and inks and you will try them for yourself. I’ll demonstrate using different media in combination as well as adding collage, explaining the order of layering the different media to achieve the best results. Then you will try a couple of paintings yourself using both ink and paint. You will then create two or more multimedia paintings using layering techniques. I will explain critique approaches, and we will critique everyone’s art as a group.

Day Two: I’ll demonstrate a folded painting, weaving with Yupo to create a painting, and how to burn holes in Yupo to create a 3-D painting. I’ll demonstrate the steps for weaving and for burning holes in Yupo. We’ll all prepare at least two paintings to weave and burn beginning today and continuing on Day 3. We’ll critique today’s paintings considering which might work well for weaving or burning.

Day Three: You can finish your paintings from Day Two and/or create new ones. I’ll review each of your paintings individually and discuss which are the best candidates for the weaving and burning techniques. Then you can try these techniques yourself with your paintings. We’ll critique paintings and go through what we have learned, what surprised us and what inspired us.

Supply List: Click here to view the supply list

Biography: Lil Clinard is known for her large paintings on Yupo. Her paintings have won numerous awards. You may have seen her Yupo watercolor paintings in the AGTV Spring Shows. She paints in both a realistic and abstract style and uses both intense and soft hues. She paints landscapes and seascapes as well as abstracts. She has been painting watercolor on Yupo for the last 10 years and has experimented with numerous techniques. You have an opportunity to benefit from her experiences. Visit her website: www.WatercolorsByLil.com. Lil’s paintings are in private and commercial collections across the US and Europe. They are available at her studio here in Tellico Village

Instructor Website: WatercolorsByLil@charter.net