Spring Fling! Festival 2024

We perceive the world in color, so when we see black and white images, a part is missing. This absence adds to our own imagination and creates mysteries—a beauty that highlights texture, fluidity, and contrast. In this one-hour talk, artist

Working directly from arranged objects, you’ll learn how to compose and paint your own compelling still-life by recognizing and translating values, simplifying detail and shapes, color mixing with a limited palette and applying paint to achieve desired effects!

Susan Greenstein will lead a workshop to help you create some quick still life paintings working intuitively. Please arrange 3-4 objects, such as piece of fruit, a bottle and a bowl, and have light shining on your objects from one

Get ready for your spring and summer hikes and travels–join Molly as she demonstrates—you’ll see how she works from start to finish, using photos and sketches to help create a studio painting. You can paint along with her or simply

Mark Daniel Nelson will briefly demonstrate how to create clarity and impact in a painting by identifying and eliminating unnecessary information.

Join contemporary abstract acrylic painter Paul Bailey for a one-hour painting demo. Bailey, author of Experimental Nature in Acrylics, will demonstrate his simplification and abstraction strategies, augmented by his unique use of color harmony/dissonance and dynamic brushwork.

Scott Gellatly will discuss his process of bringing his plein air studies into the studio and the evolution of color that the works take on in his larger studio paintings.

Painter Anton Nowels will demonstrate and share how he uses photoshop to jumpstart his creative process. This digital tool helps him set the stage for his compositions without hindering the final work.

Tom invites you to look at the world and translate what you see into two dimensions, simply and intuitively.

Join Larry for an interesting look at mark making techniques and the array of tools that he uses to create his own.

In this one-hour demo/paint-along of the floral still life, Anne-lise Firth will share tactics for organizing and simplifying this often overwhelming subject matter. She will also show simple ways to quickly find your way into your subject matter in order

Michael Weller often starts with a color idea in his work. In this demo/paint-along of a small still life, Michael will share how he places patches of color first, before the lines, as a starting point for creating his bold,

Join artist Susan Abbott on her walk across Spain on the Camino de Santiago! Susan will present a slide talk that will take you along from the Pyrenees to the Atlantic shore on this famous 550 mile ancient pilgrimage route.

Tim Tozer’s painting explore the smaller corners of reality that surround him everyday. He paints the relationship of form and shape to create mystery. Join Tim for this one-hour painting demo to discover how he composes with light space and

Take a perfect form and add an endless variety of colors and patterns and you have the beauty of bird eggs. This session will introduce you to painting eggs in watercolor with an emphasis on edges, values, shadows, colors, and

In this focused presentation, AL Gury, author of Color for Painters, will walk you through the history of palettes of colors, the range and variety of palettes of colors and how to experiment with and build a useful palette for

Join artist Amy Dury for a one-hour demo to discover techniques for working from found imagery to mine the vast archive of 20th Century imagery in photography and film to inspire your own work. Amy considers both the choosing of

Pastel artist Richard Suckling will demonstrate how he adds sparkle to water and drama to skies in his dramatic paintings! Through his bolder approach to painting with soft pastels, Richard will show you how being more adventurous with mark making,

Dive into color and composition in this landscape paint-along/demo with artist and plein air painter Liz Prescott. Working from photo reference, Liz will share how she keeps her painting focus on process and experimentation while keeping the experience playful and

Pastel artist Mary Pritchard will work large (22”x22”) and share how she achieves dramatic simplicity of iconic shapes.

In this demo/paint-along, award-winning artist Lynn Mehta will share how she achieves her textured, loose, gestural paintings using palette knives and expressive brushwork while maintaining solid principles of design. Lynn will work from from a reference photo of a maritime

In this one-hour demo/paint-along, award-winning painter Stacy Kamin will demo how she captures beauty in the ordinary as she paints a meaningful still life composition using an ordinary object as her subject. Stacy will demo in oils.