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This workshop is all about having fun and discovering color!  Watercolor and ink pours and puddles, coloring with pastels and crayons, visual and tactile texturing, over painting with watercolor or fluid acrylic and abstract composition are all introduced.  Sounds like a busy day-because it is!  But everyone will come away excited and full of enthusiasm to begin ‘pouring it on’ on their own!

Abstract Pouring Frenzy

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kit fee: $10   supply list

• Water colors-at least 5 to choose from (large quantities are used, so if you don’t already have a supply, purchase inexpensive one to begin)
• Watercolor pencils, crayons or pastels
• Watercolor paper-bring the sizes you are comfortable working on. I will demo on full sheets-22”x30”
• large brushes (2”to 4”) for pushing paint; I use inexpensive foam brushes-available from hardware and art supply
• Gator board or other ridged surface on which to attach your paper in order to move it around-several plastic covered cardboards can do the trick
  
  
• Things for ‘texturing’-suggestions not requirements-I will have some for loan
  
  
• Found objects-screen, bubble wrap, shells, carpet skid mat
• Rubber or other stamps
• Papers for collage
  
  
• **All of the items are suggested, based on what I use. If you do not have the items, or can not purchase them, call or email and we can work through alternatives.
  
  
• Kit fee: $10.00
• Includes:
• Golden gel medium for adhesive in collage
• Robert Doak fluid watercolor samples to use
• Golden Fluid Acrylic samples to use
• Use of found objects, texturing products
• Claybord and Yupo samples
  
  
• I look forward to an energetic, fun filled workshop!

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Patricia is self taught; painting in mixed media and encaustic for nine years. Her work has appeared in several gallery shows around central Michigan; her home from 1999-2004, and in Washington, where she now resides.

Having the good fortune of working from her own studio on site at her home, Patricia is able to play daily with new ideas that incorporate a variety of mediums into her work. One can find watercolor under encaustic; acrylic as a basis for oil; pastel worked into a watercolor collage. The nature of her work allows for experimentation and interplay of materials without getting caught up in any limitations of medium, style or discipline.

While keeping her own work in progress, Patricia also teaches workshops and holds demonstrations in the Seattle and Portland area. She will teach through Sitka Center for the Arts in Oregon, ArtFest Port Townsend in Washington, Mendocino Art Center in California as well as through her studio in 2007. She rounds out her life with the raising of her four children; all boys ages 16-11 years old.