Registration open: https://www.crookedtree.org/class/ctac-traverse-city/luminous-cloudscapes

A studio landscape workshop for artists working in oils with Paint Grand Traverse featured artist, Kathleen Hudson. Each morning will feature a presentation, full demo, and exercises for students focusing on value & composition. Afternoons will be devoted to one-on-one instruction.

Points of study will include:

• Seeing as an artist: seeing shapes, value shifts, and color temperatures

• Planning your painting: envisioning your painting, using varied reference material, honing value and design, doing color studies

• Design: Cloud-heavy compositions allow for a lot of artistic license in design, so we’ll look at different types of directional movement that give a cloudscape dynamism.

• Stages of studio painting: drawing, block-in, color mixing, approaches to working a larger painting, refining texture & edges, tools for self-critique

• Experimentation: exercises you can do at home to continue your growth as an artist

One-on-one instruction will be individually tailored. Students are encouraged to email several cloudscape painting examples beforehand and list some specific things they would like to work on. A 40-page workshop handbook is included in the tuition.