Thursday Classes
If you are lucky enough to live in or near Nashville Tennessee, you may want to join Gayle's Thursday classes.
Each course is an eight week session, one on Thursday morning and one on Thursday afternoon.
To recieve quarterly email notices of new classes, please write to Gayle
and let her know.
All of Gayle's classes and workshops include step-by-step instruction and personal guidance. To watch Gayle teaching a class, please visit the Demonstrations page! To inquire about class signup and availability, please contact Gayle.
Upcoming Workshops:
Music City Paint-Out
Spring 2012 in Nashville, TN
You will enjoy applying your knowledge of perspective and brushwork in this exciting four-day workshop for artists who want to experience the joy and challenges of working outdoors, especially in the vibrant downtown of Music City, USA!
Click here to learn more about the Music City Paint-Out.
Seaside Paint-Out - only one spot left!
Summer 2012 in Annisquam, MA
Fill your paintings with color and sparkle!
This August you will have the opportunity to paint with me on the rugged coast of Cape Ann, walking in the footsteps of such greats as Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, and Cecilia Beaux.
Click here to learn more about the Seaside Paint-Out.
Still Life Painting in the Boston School Tradition
Fall 2012 in Nashville, TN
Mr. Hunter shared with me his knowledge of accurate portrayal in still life painting, and I have added my own stamp of lively brushwork and color. You can benefit from this lineage as I share it with you.
Still life painting is a tremendously strong learning tool, and you will leave this workshop with solid knowledge which will help you become the artist you want to be.
In this workshop you will learn how to make flowers look vibrant and alive, and how to make vases and other objects look like they are really sitting on the surface -- really occupying the space you have created on the canvas. You will learn how to arrange a compelling composition and how to render light and form.
Click here to learn more about Still Life Painting in the Boston School Tradition.
Painting Loose and Free
Winter 2013, location TBD
Many artists have trouble loosening up. I'm one of them! I've found that one important key to loosening up is to gain more confidence in the effects of my brush -- and even tools beyond the brush!
The most important thing I hope you will take from this class is the understanding that the brush is very different from either a pencil or a pen. You will use your entire body in wielding the brush correctly. You will learn how much fun it is to create textures and special effects with other kinds of techniqes. You will not stay in the lines. Enjoy!
This is a weekend workshop scheduled for winter 2013. If you are interested, please sign up to be notified as soon as the workshop is open for registration.
A Colorado Autumn
Fall 2013 in Aspen, CO
The people who live in the West know about a magical color called Aspenglow. What would be more delightul than to paint in the cool sunshine of a mountain autumn, and capture that color on canvas? I'm planning a workshop for the early fall of 2013 in Aspen Colorado. We will paint during the day, have a picnic lunch, and spend the evening in artistic cameraderie in the beautiful town of Aspen.
This is a three day workshop scheduled for fall 2013. If you are interested, please sign up to be notified as soon as the workshop is open for registration.
