ARTIST: Michelle Held
3-Day Studio Workshop
All Levels
The Blue Heron Lodge is filled up for this workshop, but we have 2 spaces still open for Local students, or students who do not mind lodging nearby. Contact Dorothy at 334-332-8457 for information about nearby lodging options.
Learn to create dramatic, light-filled impressionistic oil paintings of your favorite birds with award-winning painter Michelle Held.
Michelle will help you learn how to infuse heart and passion confidently into your studio paintings. Learn her techniques for filling your paintings with light, and making them seem to glow and shimmer from within.
Michelle is widely known for her majestic, elegant paintings of iconic shorebirds. Now she will share what she's learned with you, helping you understand bird anatomy, gesture, proportions and behavior so that you can confidently create beautiful bird paintings that glow and sing!
Among the skills you will learn are:
• anatomy
• light effects
• proportion
• juicy brushwork
• planes (to create the sense of form)
• effective use of color
• composition