Eye Gems: Painting with Exciting Focal Points

Explore contemporary ideas about engaging focal points in this full-day hands on workshop with painter Nancy Reyner.

Learn how to successfully pair color chroma and color intensity with neutrals to create alluring visual movement, and illusion of depth of space. Nancy begins the workshop presenting and demonstrating a range of ideas on this topic. Following this, students will work independently on their paintings. Throughout the day, Nancy offers demonstrations on demand, and personal assistance. These concepts and techniques will benefit any painting style – from abstraction to classical realism.

Bring new painting surfaces or works in progress, along with your choice of acrylic or oil. Please note, if bringing oil paints, no solvents will be permitted, even non-odorous ones (see the supply list for details).

Medium: Acrylic or Oil

Levels: All levels are welcome, however some previous experience with your medium and the ability to work independently is required

Supplies: Bring your own materials CLICK to download the MATERIALS LIST – PDF file

• Max Students: 10
• Bring Your Own Materials
• Please park on Maclovia Street between Artisan and Autozone – Please DO NOT park directly behind our building
• Refund Policy:
  *Now through November 11th, full refund minus $10.00 registration fee
  *No Refunds after November 12th

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Artist Statement:

I paint exotic versions of heaven – places in my imagination that are beautiful and meditative. Gold leaf and other unusual materials combine with paint to create these imaginary worlds. Nature is my muse for inspiring luminous interpretations of air, water, earth and light. Merging the literal and metaphorical, my paintings hover somewhere between pure abstraction and realistic landscape.

The ability to dream and create new worlds, by taking a flat surface and transforming it into the illusion of 3D, is the gift that painters can bring to the world. With this concept of manipulating dimensions, a painter may point out something that already exists but in such a skillful manner that the viewer sees their world in a brand new way.

This is my mission as an artist – to give our invisible inner world a tangible visible form. Art is a rewarding pursuit that adds quality of life, and I share this passion in my art and with my students.

Visit Nancy Reyner’s Website: nancyreyner.com/

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