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Carol Maguire – The Joyful Still Life (Online)
Carol Maguire will share her unique approach to composition, color, and joyful mark-making, showcasing her signature palette knife technique and vibrant impasto style.
Date recorded: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Join artist Carol Maguire for an inspiring demonstration on creating simple yet beautiful still life paintings. Carol will share her unique approach to composition, color, and joyful mark-making, showcasing her signature palette knife technique and vibrant impasto style. Discover how she builds expressive, textured paintings that radiate light and energy, and learn tips to bring more joy and spontaneity into your own creative process.
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Carol Maguire – The Joyful Still Life (Online)
Join artist Carol Maguire for an inspiring demonstration on creating simple yet beautiful still life paintings. Carol will share her unique approach to composition, color, and joyful mark-making, showcasing her signature palette knife technique and vibrant impasto style. Discover how she builds expressive, textured paintings that radiate light and energy, and learn tips to bring more joy and spontaneity into your own creative process.
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Join artist Carol Maguire for an inspiring demonstration on creating simple yet beautiful still life paintings. Carol will share her unique approach to composition, color, and joyful mark-making, showcasing her signature palette knife technique and vibrant impasto style. Discover how she builds expressive, textured paintings that radiate light and energy, and learn tips to bring more joy and spontaneity into your own creative process.
Carol Maguire holds a Bachelor’s in Art History from Fairfield University and the Sorbonne, she has furthered her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation and Fleisher Memorial. Her passion results in painterly works saturated with color and joie de vivre. Inspired by a love for color, textiles and gardening, her work focuses on objects that surround her daily life. She is represented at galleries in North Carolina, Delaware, New York and in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.
Carol started painting full-time in 2001… Read more ››
6 Responses
Your demo was wonderful and inspirational. Now I can’t wait to paint with a palette knife! Thank you
Wonderful.
Thank you!
Super fun! Thank you for sharing!
This is really a useful demo. I also find your ‘thinking out loud” very helpful. Thank you so much!
Thank you Carol for an inspired demonstration. I will have to try the palette knife your way. Thank you for your time and talent.