Medium: Applicable to artists working in gouache, watercolor, artist crayons, and color pencils
Level: All levels welcome
Class Dates: Wednesdays, December 2 & 9, 2026
Class Times:
• 11:00 am-1:30 pm Pacific time
• 2:00 pm-4:30 pm Eastern time
• 7:00 pm-9:30 pm UK time
Alice Neel was a 20th century painter known for her unconventional portraits. Neel’s sensitized blue lines and inventive colors combine to reveal the psychology of the sitter, both in their faces and bodies. A close study of her paintings feels like an intimate conversation with a friend, or even a stranger, that’s honest and real.
In this two-session class you’ll practice making portraits in the manner of Alice Neel using mixed media in sketchbooks.
The focus will be on Neel’s manner of painting lines and organizing colors:
Your portrait studies will be made in sketchbooks on mixed media paper. You’ll use both wet and dry media, including gouache, watercolor, artist crayons, and color pencils. If you wish to work on canvas or larger paper using your choice of paint, that can work as well.
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$175.00
Barbara Fugate is a painter committed to making drawings and paintings that express life rather than imitate it. Discovering and experiencing “how things are” rather than “what they are” continues to inspire and drive Fugate’s art and art instruction. Fugate received a BFA from Western Kentucky University and a MFA in painting from Miami University of Ohio. Fugate has taught expressive drawing and painting classes and workshops in Seattle, as well as international workshops for over 25 years. Schools where Fugate has taught include Gage Academy of Art, Seattle Pacific University, Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (Victoria, BC), La Conner Art Workshops, as well as her own Seattle Weekend Art Workshops. Fugate’s artwork is published in “The Best of Drawing and Sketching” by Terry Sullivan, “Landscape Painting” by Mitchell Albala, and Margaret Davidson’s book, “Contemporary Drawing”.
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