Learn the fundamentals of painting with gouache, an opaque watercolor paint! Gouache is portable, fast-drying, and an easy-to-clean-up alternative to oils – great for travel or limited working time and space. Ideal for painters of all levels from beginning to experienced.

You will learn to: 

• Develop paint application techniques for fluidity and control, with opaque and wash applications. 
• Gain the ability to mix color and to predict its effects. 
• Recognize and promote gouache’s characteristics and learn how to problem-solve with the material. 
• Learn to incorporate principles of line, value, color and space for a greater command of the medium. 
• Work from still life to learn how to representationally depict a variety of subject matter and to recognize abstract concepts. 
• Become familiar with artists’ techniques for selecting and preparing surfaces, as well as basic methods of displaying paintings for exhibition. 
  

The workshop will include a tour of Syvertsen's current , on view through June 29.

 


Dates:  Saturday, June 28, 2025
Time:  9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 
Fee:  $95
Register by: June 20 (space is limited)

** Sign up with a friend and receive 10% off both registrations.  Use discount code ClassSum25 at checkout. 

holds MA and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She enjoys painting from real locations and objects – looking for what is meaningful and miraculous in everyday places and things.  Her work focuses on the transformative effect of light and the abstract quality of juxtaposed form.  She is a member of the Cerulean Arts Collective.  She is also the Director of Continuing Education Programs and an adjunct faculty member at PAFA.