ARTIST: Michelle Held
3-Day Studio Workshop
All Levels
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!
Choose an all-inclusive package for a fully immersive experience with Michelle and your fellow students. With all meals and lodging included on site, you can relax on our dock or one of our screened porches, paint, and make new friends while your hosts take care of all the rest.
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