Art Makers Denver is an urban art retreat in the heart of Downtown Denver at the CU College of Architecture building. Helen Rice puts together an incredible event to include social hour and open classroom space so that you can observe what others are creating and be inspired! This NEW FORMAT for 2023 will be my three day Fabulous Florals! workshop.
In this three-day workshop we will be drawing florals from a still life setup and modifying it to create a compelling, FUN composition. We’ll cover how to paint your life drawing with a full range of fun, bright colors and shading. You will then learn how to hand-paint your own collage papers through a series of gel plate mono printing techniques in the color palette from your under-painting. Once you have created your paper palette you’ll follow along and learn how to rip and glue and apply your papers in a painterly manner over the top of your underpainting. Elizabeth will cover how to tear with and without white edges, how to keep your pieces perfectly flat without cockling, and how to vary your paper brush marks in size and shape.
