Spring Fling! Festival ’25 – Free Online

British landscape painter Lucy Marks will give a taster of what is important in painting loose, how painting loose is a mindset and an attitude towards your art practice.

Earlier this year painter Patty Voje suffered a stroke. She talks about her experiences, including how important art is to brain health, emotional well-being, and healing after a life-changing event.

Join Kathleen Denis for a fun, hands-on session exploring acrylic paint, mediums and tools to create unexpected layers and expressive mark-making. This session will give you an overview of acrylic paints’ amazing versatility and unique features. Discover key techniques to

Join renowned Pacific Northwest mixed media artist Larry Calkins for an intimate look into the personal history, imagery, and narrative threads that shape his distinctive body of work.

Artist Janet Pedersen shares imagery for inspiration, what she’s looking for in a composition, and finding ‘the story’ in an architectural subject.

Watch as fine artist and teacher Catherine Bobkoski brings a rose to life in watercolor using a painterly, expressive approach. This demonstration will focus on using value contrast, layering color and texture, and capturing the form and light with confidence.

This talk will explore key mindset shifts to strengthen creative practice, build self-confidence, and propel artistic development forward.

Soo explores how we define different art mediums and how various materials can be used in the image-making process.

Richard Blades shows the versatility of the palette knife and how he uses it to create expressive and atmospheric land and seascape paintings.

In this lively alla prima painting demonstration, artist Philip Frey will be painting a simple still life with objects chosen for their warm and cool color contrasts.

Linda will share her passion for encaustic and demonstrate how it can be combined with other media.

Join artist Susan Greenstein in exploring this exciting challenge!

Join Molly Hashimoto for this fun and informative demo/paint-along to capture the essence of spring by painting iconic flowering trees.

Bring your preferred beverage and a sketchbook and join Jean Mackay as she shares some favorite sketchbook pages!

Artist Charles Spitzack will demonstrate the complete process of creating a multi-layered woodcut print, from beginning to end.

Paul will reveal his inspiration for his colour choices, how he uses colour to express emotion plus practical tips on using paint effectively and economically.

Artist @13brokenhorses, will be working with acrylic gouache to explore visual narrative, telling stories, with pictures.

Matteo will demonstrate the process of painting an urban/neighborhood scene in a direct painting method.

Join Brooke as she shares her process for creating a painting based on her observations of life. Learn how to practically break down your reference, workout studies and then begin the final piece.

Join botanical artist Nina Antze to discover how to create value and form using colored pencil.

Discover ways to connect colors in your art to provide balance, lead the eye, create relationships, and give feeling to the composition.

Join Richard Suckling for a landscape painting demonstration in soft pastel where he’ll show you how to identify the key elements of a scene while eliminating unnecessary details.

Watch or paint along as Mel brings a portrait to life, from soft abstract shapes to select crisp details.

Explore with artist Al Gury the exciting development of Modern Art in Paris and the key artists who gave it birth.

If you have ever been hesitant to try abstract or wish to take yours a step further, join Abby in this one hour talk and demo exploring abstract in small color studies.

This will be an engaging overview combining the physics of light with some simple strategies for painters. Leave feeling confident you understand what you are seeing and the ability to translate it into paint!

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.

Join Winslow Art Center instructor Zoë Cohen for a glimpse into the compelling world of contemporary women artists.