Amy Brnger – What’s Blooming in Your Garden? (Online); Mondays, April 18-May 9, 2022

Let’s paint what’s outside! Amy Brnger will teach flower painting, using flowers from southern Maine. Participants are encouraged to use their own local blooms for assignments, but you can also use images based on flowers Amy will be painting.

This workshop will highlight:

• Finding major forms in nature
• Creating vivid color using a limited palette
• Expanding stroke direction and energy
• Composition and pictorial structure

Amy will complete an oil painting demonstration each class, have a structured assignment, and give feedback on posted work. Participants can work in a variety of mediums, water or oil based.

Amy Brnger has painted still life, flowers, and landscape for as long as she has been an artist. She uses nature as a vehicle, or an excuse, to paint, and enjoys painting places and things with and about which she is familiar or curious. With her interiors, still life and landscape are often paired together, as both influence one another equally.  These subjects are strongly related, since the kinds of still life objects she often chooses to paint are themselves directly derived from the landscape: flowers; leaves; fruits and vegetables; bird’s nests, etc. She also enjoys painting flowers and food on their own.  amybrnger.com