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Abby Ober – Absolute Abstracts in Gouache: Strong Compositions in a Small Format (Online); Mondays, May 12-26, 2025

Dates: Mondays, May 12-26, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time, 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern, 6:00-8:00 PM London Time
Level: All levels welcome
Medium: Gouache

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Join Abby Ober for a dynamic 3-week exploration of abstract art in gouache, focusing on composition, color, and personal expression. Each week, you’ll be inspired by influential abstract painters and guided through video demonstrations of key techniques. You’ll complete a weekly project, receive constructive feedback, and develop your unique artistic style.

  • Week 1: Geometric Abstracts – Learn to balance large and small shapes with color while creating strong focal points.
  • Week 2: Expressive Abstracts – Experiment with rhythm, energy, and movement through shape, line, and color.
  • Week 3: Monochromatic Abstracts – Explore depth and texture using variations in value, line, and texture within a single color family.

This class is a fantastic opportunity to develop abstract compositions that can serve as studies for larger works. Open to all levels!

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$225.00

Abby Ober spent her youth abroad as the daughter of a foreign service officer, living in Poland, Germany, Russia, India and Greece. She pursued an education in the Fine Arts at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, followed by a year long study in Graphic Design at Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. After a career in advertising and decorative painting in DC, Abby moved to Pennsylvania and raised two children. During this time she returned to her love of painting, studying under various renowned Philadelphia artists. She also began to teach art to those of all ages, levels and abilities, taking pride in starting a adult program at Wayne Art Center in PA for those with cognitive impairments. In 2019, Abby moved to St. Michaels, MD on the Chesapeake Bay and works in a home studio creating larger landscape and abstract works. In the winter she paints four months in Venice FL. She teaches private and group lessons in her studio as well as regular workshops and classes at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD and at Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA. She also is an weekly instructor at the Bay Hundred Hundred Senior Center in St. Michaels, MD.

She has participated in various juried plein air events including Easton Plein Air(2024 Honorable Mention Small Works Sunday),Gloucester Plein Air Invitational(2023 Best Vanishing Landscape) Wayne Plein Air(2009, 2011, 2019, 2023 (Revelite Award)2024(Sourcetek Award), Winter Park Paint-Out(2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) Wekiva Paint Out(2023), Plein Air Adkins(2023 and 2024 2nd Place Award) and Paint Annapolis 2024.

Her work hangs in many private home collections as well as three galleries on the East Coast, Local in St. Michaels, MD, Collectors Gallery in Venice FL and Bozzutto Greene Art in Lutherville, MD.

About Our Online Classes:

  • This class is taught live via Zoom. To take this class, you need a microphone and camera enabled computer OR an iPad /smart tablet OR a smart phone (android or IOS) and a strong internet connection.
  • You will have access to a private class message board on our website where you can share work, comment and ask questions. (Exact use of the message board, critique of student work and general class format is at the discretion of the instructor, please check course description for details.)
  • Class will be recorded and recordings expire 60 days after the final day of the course.
  • Participants will receive an email with the Zoom link and class details 5-7 days before the class starts (don’t forget to check your junk folder). Zoom link will also be posted in the class message board. Check your confirmation email for a message board link or visit your Online Classrooms to find your active classes.

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