Michael Ottersen: Exploring Abstraction through Drawing and Painting

This 5-day workshop will begin with simple exercises that utilize both observation and invented processes to explore the basic building blocks of image making, line, form, color/value and surface. 

Drawing can be fast, flexible and instructional; putting those tendencies into high gear will promote paintings that have the freshness of a drawing but also the deep color, materiality and presence of painting. 

Using the drawings as a blueprint or catalyst, we will work the images into oil or acrylic paintings that extend the original intention into full blown color studies. 

This workshop will be both challenging and fun as you discover the infinite freedom of abstraction! 

Please sign up early; class size is limited. 

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