Teaching methodology

I strive to teach in a logical, dynamic, and exploration-based way.  It's more meaningful for painters to be guided to their own discoveries than it is for me to simply demonstrate concepts from the front of the studio.  For this reason, all of my workshops are broken into clear, manageable concepts that I demonstrate and explain, and then have students try at their own easels.  We explore colour and composition separately before putting the two together, and play with brushwork and edges before applying them to our paintings. 

This incremental approach allows painters to master individual elements, and then build on them with the next segment.  There's no danger of being overwhelmed, or forgetting the first steps in the process because those steps were already explored along the way.

 4-week, online workshops (3 hours/week)

at The Winslow Art Center

**All workshops are recorded and posted online for registrants within a day of the class.  They remain  available for 60 days after the final class date and you can watch as often as you'd like within that time.

You can post your homework in our private, class chat room for my feedback and suggestions.

In-person workshops:

My workshops are lively and informative!

I start each day with a demo and then circulate from easel to easel, guiding each artist individually.  

In the afternoon, there is usually another, shorter demo to clarify any issues that I've noticed and to advance the lesson to the next step.  

Workshops are for learning and experimenting and I encourage an open, egoless attitude in the workshop participants.  We're all creators at different stages in our journeys and every person will come away from the workshop with some new skills and ideas, whether they are beginner or advanced artists.