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Category: Past Free Recordings

Zoë Cohen – Vessels (Online)

Join Winslow Art Center instructor Zoë Cohen for a delightful tour of contemporary art featuring the classic, much loved vessel form.

Daniella Woolf – Studio Warm Ups (Online)

Feeling sluggish in the studio? Don’t know where to begin? Do you fear the blank white page/canvas? Here’s a demo that will warm up your studio practice, like a good cuppa or the perfect chai.

Soo Hong – Fluid Versatility: Watercolor (Online)

In this demo, artist Soo Hong will explore the versatility of watercolor across different surfaces such as paper and fabric, showing how transparent layers and fluid gestures remain visible in the final image.

Jean Mackay – Virtual Italy! (Online)

Paint along with Jean Mackay as she shares the nature of Castello di Petroia and zooms in on a unique mushroom found at this extraordinary travel workshop location.

Lucy Marks – Autumn Scene in Oil (Online)

Working in her loose and expressive style, Lucy Marks will bring the character of autumn trees to life, creating a painting full of atmosphere, movement and seasonal warmth.

Summer Bloom ’25

Celebrate summer in full bloom with seven free floral-themed art demonstrations!

Ann Rosenthal – Cyanotype: Printing with the Sun (Online)

In this session, painter and printmaker Ann Rosenthal will present the cyanotype process, one of the earliest forms of photography that involves laying one or more objects on chemically-treated paper and then exposing it to a light source.

Paul Bailey – Alternative Seascape Demo (Online)

Paul will showcase his expressive, dynamic acrylic techniques in a quick-fire demo. His seascapes are renowned for their vibrant colour and left-field compositions, and he will explain how he captures the energy of the sea and coastline.

Janet Pedersen – Painting Interiors (Online)

Janet will show you her process using a limited palette to explore how light, space, and simplification are used to create an interior painting—all in the comfort of your home or favorite space.

Liz Prescott – Capturing Light in the Landscape (Online)

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 meaningful.

Richard Suckling – Sparkling Seas and Dramatic Skies: Pastel Demo (Online)

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, colour choices and compositions can  push pastel painting beyond a purely representational approach to the medium.

Amy Dury- Using Found Imagery for Inspiration in Painting (Online)

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 powerful imagery and the interpretation of it using color, composition and brushwork to create her dynamic work.

Al Gury – The Beauty of Limited Palettes (Online);

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 your work.

Jean Mackay – Painting Bird Eggs in Watercolor (Online)

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 markings.

Susan Abbott – An Artist’s Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago

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. She’ll also share the watercolors, sketchbooks, poems, and oil paintings that grew from this transformative experience.

Michael Weller – Colour First (Online)

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, loose abstracted paintings.

Paul Bailey – Building Abstraction (Online)

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.

Molly Hashimoto – Paint a National Park Landscape (Online)

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 observe and ask questions.

Susan Greenstein – Working Quickly: Trusting Your Intuition (Online)

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 direction, either from a lamp or from a window to work-along with Susan.

Soo Hong – Understanding Black & White (Online)

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 Soo Hong will share how to view monochrome with curiosity and how it can be used to express creativity. She will also demonstrate various dry to wet mediums on paper.

’tis the Season: Gel Plate Cards, Tags and Bags with Ann Rosenthal

This demo will feature fall-themed holiday cards, gift tags and bags. Ann will combine leaves, grasses, handmade stencils, and found objects to create unique gel print designs that can be used for cards, tags and bags. She will also make some quick and easy stamps to enhance her gel prints or use as visual accents. This will be a fun and lively session to get in the holiday spirit!

Card Tricks with Chris Rapa

Chris Rapa will share 3 designs plus her best tips for stress free holiday cardmaking. Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor and Gouache are all suitable mediums for this project. Chris’ demo will include a resource list, and simple instructions for lining the envelopes.

Holiday Watercolor Cards with Cynthia Armstrong

Get your jingle on during this holiday card making event; using a variety of watercolor techniques, explore a number of winter themes to create notes to warm the hearts of family and friends this holiday season.

BYOEN (Bring Your Own Egg Nog)!

Holiday Gingerbread Postcards in Mixed Media with Susan Wiersema

The Holidays are here, and the smell of gingerbread is everywhere. We all have memories of rich ginger-flavored cookies with brightly colored frosting. Susan Wiersema will take you step by step through the process of using mixed dry and water media to create beautiful and colorful postcards worthy of sharing with all your family and friends. When we finish, we’ll take a moment to enjoy the incredible artwork we have created, grab a cup of tea, and eat our gingerbread subjects.

Ian de Hoog – Sketching Birds, Fast and Loose – Work-Along

Improve your ability to capture bird forms with Canadian artist Ian de Hoog in this one-hour demonstration of rapid sketching techniques for capturing avian subjects. Improve your ability to sketch bird forms, exploring a range of methods in graphite, ink, and watercolor to master the art of rendering birds, fast and loose!

Chris Rapa – Pottery, Poetry and Art of Painting: Still Life Demo

Artist Chris Rapa will paint a simple still life, using colors inspired by everything from pottery to silk scarves. She will share some of her “alternative approaches” to painting, and why she thinks making a painting is like playing Black Jack. Spoiler alert—you have to know when to stop!

Scott Gellatly – Strategies for Abstracting the Landscape

Artist Scott Gellatly leads us in this deep dive into his process for using Plein air studies as references to further abstract the imagery in his studio. In this presentation, Scott will give a sampling of the strategies that he incorporates in his ongoing Abstracting the Landscape series of classes with Winslow Art Center.

Paul Bailey – Simplifying the Rural Landscape

Paul recently produced a group of small semi-abstract landscape paintings based on simplifying the rural landscape. In this one-hour presentation, he will demonstrate and explain the techniques behind these paintings- his unique acrylic techniques: paint layering, acrylic washes, masking, collage and more. Paul Bailey will work in acrylics and mixed media.

Zoë Cohen – The Contemporary Sketchbook

A sketchbook is a personal document containing both visual and written material. Through a series of non-intimidating guided exercises, mixed media artist Zoe Cohen will zero in on some of the unconventional methods contemporary artists use to create inspirational sketchbooks- rough, unpretentious drawings, collage, marks and scribbles, as well as some classic sketching practices.

David Sharpe – The Abbreviated Landscape 

Sometimes the abbreviated landscape painting can be more engaging and interesting than a literal interpretation. In this presentation/demo, painter David Sharpe will share the decisions he makes in his painting process, balancing between abstraction and representation, using design shapes in light, to create his emotional works. David Sharpe will work in oils.

Stacy Kamin – Starting a Painting

Learn the core elements for starting a painting with Stacy Kamin. In this one-hour demo, Stacy will share techniques for beginning a painting, massing, creating strong shadows and setting up exciting still life compositions. Stacy Kamin will demo in oils.

Jean Mackay – Knowing When to Stop

Join artist Jean Mackay as she shares ideas for assessing your paintings during the middle and late stages so that you gain confidence in knowing when to stop.

Ann Rosenthal – Experiments in Gel Printing

Ann Rosenthal is a printmaker and painter who celebrates her love of color, gesture, and form in nature in her artwork. In this presentation, Ann will demonstrate experimental gel plate printmaking techniques that you can do without a press. Discover a range of possibilities that can invigorate your mixed media works and paintings.

Gage Opdenbrouw – Matisse and His Legacy – Presentation

Henri Matisse’s relentless formal innovation and incredible painterly vocabulary stand as an open book of great ideas that have inspired many painters since. Join artist Gage Opdenbrouw as he shares his in-depth knowledge of Matisse, along with favorite works by this master painter and works by contemporary artists inspired by him.

Michael Weller – Mixed Media Self-Portrait Sketch-Along

Sketch alongside New English Art Club member, artist Michael Weller to discover how he achieves his loose, expressive, mixed-media self-portrait sketches. In Michael’s words, “When I’m feeling glum, I look in the mirror and sketch from life for a while. I don’t have to flatter the sitter or do a lovely drawing.” Sketch along using Bic pens, brush pens, ink, permanent markers, pastels, big chunks of charcoal, kids’ paint sticks…anything goes!

Cynthia Armstrong – Capturing the San Juan Islands in Watercolor Work-Along

Working with a limited palette in this fun watercolor paint-along, artist Cynthia Armstrong will play with two key elements that contribute to watercolor success – paint consistency and timing. The iconic Pacific Northwest San Juan Islands provide the perfect subject for cementing an understanding of watercolor techniques while exploring a simple landscape composition.

Bernie Dellario – Two Paintings, Two Mediums Demo

Join Maryland artist Bernard Dellario as he demonstrate how he quickly captures his surroundings in plein air using a variety of mediums. Bernie will share two different demos in two different mediums, acrylics and oils.

Soo Hong – Painting on Silk

Inspired by the history of Asian color paintings, artist Soo Hong will demonstrate contemporary techniques for painting on prepared silk-like canvas, using simple materials such as watercolor and acrylic, to create intricate, loose color paintings.

Mike Hernandez – Painting with Flashé Vinyl Paint Demo

Join artist Mike Hernandez as he demonstrates a maritime scene painting with this versatile, often overlooked paint. Flashe is an extra-fine vinyl-based paint that dries evenly with intense coverage to a uniform, velvety matte, opaque finish. Highly pigmented, Flashe may be diluted with water to create a range of results, from highly opaque to a transparent watercolor effect.

Mary Pritchard – Painting Grasses in Pastel Demo

Pastel artist Mary Pritchard’s favorite subject matter is within a few miles of her Maryland home, in the small towns, family farms, tidewater rivers and marshes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. In this one-hour presentation, Mary will demonstrate how she captures one of these subjects-marsh grasses-in pastel.

Wayne Jiang – Layering Techniques in Acrylics

Join Oregon acrylic master painter Wayne Jiang for an overview of the acrylic layering techniques that he uses in his work- his opaque Impressionist alla prima technique, semi-transparent Old Dutch Masters technique and the very transparent Maxfield Parrish layering technique.

Sarah B. Hansen – Watercolor Demo/Paint-Along

Paint fast and loose in this one-hour watercolor demo/paint-along with Sarah B Hansen. Sarah will share her process for painting a Tuscan landscape scene. She will work from photo reference in watercolor. Paint along in any water-based media.

Larry Calkins – The Art of Pochoir

Using various mediums such as acrylic, oil paint, encaustic wax, and even tempera, Larry Calkins will share how he creates scissor-cut paper stencils to make complex paintings on various surfaces including wood, paper, or canvas.

Scott Gellatly – Abstracting the Landscape Demo 

In this online demo, Scott will share some of the key aspects of his artistic process, including his use of reference imagery, surface preparation, palette set-up, tools and painting mediums and discuss how each of these plays a roll in his abstracted landscapes.

Diana Belenky – Gesture Drawing from the Model 

Gesture drawing is a way to quickly sketch out a character in motion. In this gesture drawing “sketch-along,” discover how Diana Belenky captures the essence of the movement of a human figure in quick poses.

Jean Mackay – Sketching Spring Unfolding

Discover strategies for observing and recording spring unfolding with artist Jean Mackay in this hour long class. Jean will demo in ink and watercolor and will share how to record a variety of spring subjects on a single sketchbook page.

Margaret Davidson – The Joy of Paper

For any drawing artist, paper is the most important partner and ally in the making of their art, so it is good to know what papers are made of, what they feel like and what their voices are.

Stacy Kamin – Urban Sketching Sketch-Along

Pull out pen and paper and get ready to sketch-along with artist Stacy Kamin. Discover approaches for sketching complex architecture on location and learn to use techniques such as direct contour drawing that will train your hand-eye coordination.

Bernard Dellario – Paint-Along in Oil and Gouache

In this free one-hour paint-along, award-winning artist Bernard Dellario, will share two demos, explaining his process in both oils and gouache. Bernie will do paint a sketch of sun flowers in gouache and a sketch in oils of an olive tree.

Aaron M. Thompson – In Depth: An Exploration of Pictorial Space

Aaron M. Thompson, Full Time Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design will discuss the current exhibition, In Depth:An Exploration of Pictorial Space, which he curated for the college. The exhibition features an eclectic range of contemporary paintings by artists that express interest in pictorial space and surface.

Tracy Everly – Mixing Spring Colors

Join Tracy Everly as she demonstrates and explains mixing colors for spring flowers and plants on her palette to develop technical, mental and perceptual skills needed to translate our response to what we see in nature into 2-dimensional form.

Catherine Bobkoski – Spring Flowers Demo in Oils

Flowers are an incredibly rewarding and beautiful subject – but also a very challenging one. In this one-hour demo, Catherine Bobkoski will lead you through her painting process, from color palette, vibrant color mixtures, paint application techniques, and more!

Monday Morning Modernism with John Seed – Recordings

Join art writer John Seed for a series of 45 minute talks on Modernism. Each presentation will provide an overview of important topics in the development of modern art and culture and will be followed by a 10 minute Q and A session. Series was recorded every first Monday of the Month between January, 2022 and March, 2023.

Gage Opdenbrouw – Paint it Black: Paint Over It, Scrape It Back

Gage Opdenbrouw often finds himself compelled to edit and consolidate forms in his work by painting, tearing down and rebuilding. Through a process of repetition and simplification, revision and editing and adjusting painted shapes as they relate to one another, a distillation can occur .

Larry Calkins – The Humble Stick Figure

The stick figure is like an alphabet. In fact, some alphabet letters are derived from the stick figure. Contemporary artists like Paul Klee, L.S. Lowry, Keith Harring (to name a few), utilized this simple depiction as has every culture around the world, from Europe, to India, to Easter islands, to the Americas.

David Mensing – The Illusion of Light (Demo)

David Mensing shares techniques he uses to create the illusion of light in his work. Starting with a painting of flat, dark tree trunks, David shows how he applies diffused light, reflected light and highlights to transform his painting.

Jean Mackay – Back to the Drawing Board (Online Work-Along)

Sharpen your pencils and your drawing skills, make some marks, and have fun during this tune up with Jean Mackay. Practice the art of seeing and rendering objects using pencils, pens, and ink and wash. Beginners and experienced artists alike benefit from improved drawing skills, confident mark making, and strong values.

Molly Hashimoto – Diverse Sketchbooks

How to use a variety of papers and sketchbooks to their best advantage! Molly employs several, depending on location, amount of time she can spend, even backpack size.

Aaron M. Thompson – (Strategies for Working with) the Limited Color Palette

Aaron Thompson demonstrates strategies for working with limited color palettes and discusses how to recognize the differences of color theory versus a pigment’s abilities, how a limited palette can offer surprising combinations, and how limitations of color can create rewarding cohesion within your paintings.

Bernard Dellario – Expressive Landscape Painting

Join Bernie for this informative 1-hour conversation, which includes demos and Q&A’s, to learn how to use bold brushwork and quick intuitive decisions to maintain that fresh plein air look in your studio landscape work.

Mark Daniel Nelson – Reconstructing the Masters with Procreate

Join Mark Daniel Nelson as he uses the iPad drawing app Procreate to explore alternative compositional approaches to paintings by John Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth and others. Learn valuable design lessons as well as gaining a basic introduction to image manipulation…without damaging the original masterpieces!

Grace A. Flott – How to Paint a Lemon

In this alla prima painting demonstration, Grace demonstrates her method for capturing yellow with a focus on chroma control, structural planes, and a simple palette.

Felicia Forte – Painting the Eye in the Portrait – Recording

Felicia Forte paints for the moment when she can feel the core likeness of her subject. Join Felicia, the 2018 Second Prize winner of the BP Portrait competition,  as she shares step-by-step techniques for painting  the eye in a portrait in this one-hour demo.

Chris Bennett, Mark Dunford & Sarah Spackman – In Conversation

Join us for a one-hour conversation with three legendary British painters as they discuss their divergent approaches, compare notes about the Slade, the Camberwell School of Art and the Euston Road legacy, the Coldstream and Uglow influence, and talk about what they are doing now as artists in relation to these shared foundations.

Lisa Bebi – Altered Images Using the Paint-Over Technique

Join mixed media artist Lisa Bebi for this exciting 1-1/2-hour mixed media exploration of the “Paint-Over Technique.” Bebi developed this technique, which uses family photos and found images, as a base for painting and altering photocopies of photos by painting, staining and combining them with collage.

Larry Calkins – The Simplified Collage: A Minimalist Approach

Join mixed media artist Larry Calkins for this informative one-hour presentation to discover techniques for creating the simplified collage. Working with simple, but interesting and meaningful materials, Larry will share examples and demo his minimalist process.

Ken Karlic – Misbehaving Watercolors

Don’t miss this exciting one-and-a-half hour painting demo with nationally recognized artist Ken Karlic. Working in watercolor, often combined with gouache, Karlic creates large, vibrant paintings that push the boundaries of his medium and characterize his process.

Tom Bucci – The Sketchbook Practice

Join watercolor artist Thomas Bucci to discover how keeping a sketchbook and a regular sketching practice is important for artists of all levels working in any medium in this one-and-a-half hour presentation.

Benjamin Shamback – Oil Painting on Copper Demo – Recording

Join us for a fascinating one-and-a-half hour demo with Benjamin Shamback to learn about the process of painting oil on copper. Shamback is one of the only painters in the United States painting exclusively on copper. His painterly still lifes are characterized by their rich color and complex surfaces and his delicate subjects are carefully chosen for their contrast with the beauty of the copper support.

Wayne Jiang – The Two-Tone Layering Technique with Acrylic (AKA the David Grove Technique)

The key to creating luminous acrylic painting is layering. In this demo, Wayne will show you one of his many acrylic layering and glazing techniques. The two-tone layering technique starts with a wash of two colors (like what is done using watercolor) and then followed by more transparent and semi opaque layers. It’s a very fast technique for developing a painting with a layered look.

Amis Balcomb – The Embellished Simple Sketch

Working along with artist Amis Balcomb, discover how to create unique imagery using four simple tools: a water-soluble graphite crayon, a waterproof ink pen, watercolor, and brilliant magical embossing powders for embellishment. Turn any design or sketch, simple or elaborate, into a decorative visual jewel.

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