Learn the fundamentals of painting with gouache, an opaque watercolor paint! Gouache is portable, fast-drying, and an easy-to-clean-up alternative to oils – great for travel or limited working time and space. Ideal for painters of all levels from beginning to experienced.
You will learn to:
- Develop paint application techniques for fluidity and control, with opaque and wash applications.
- Gain the ability to mix color and to predict its effects.
- Recognize and promote gouache’s characteristics and learn how to problem-solve with the material.
- Learn to incorporate principles of line, value, color and space for a greater command of the medium.
- Work from still life to learn how to representationally depict a variety of subject matter and to recognize abstract concepts.
- Become familiar with artists’ techniques for selecting and preparing surfaces, as well as basic methods of displaying paintings for exhibition.
The workshop will include a tour of Syvertsen's current Cerulean Collective exhibition, on view through June 29.
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Dates: Saturday, June 28, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Fee: $95
Register by: June 20 (space is limited)
** Sign up with a friend and receive 10% off both registrations. Use discount code ClassSum25 at checkout.
Allison Syvertsen holds MA and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She enjoys painting from real locations and objects – looking for what is meaningful and miraculous in everyday places and things. Her work focuses on the transformative effect of light and the abstract quality of juxtaposed form. She is a member of the Cerulean Arts Collective. She is also the Director of Continuing Education Programs and an adjunct faculty member at PAFA.
