Art
Eric Michaels- Winter Scenes: the Advantages of Watercolor
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIEric Michaels-Painting Winter Scenes: the Advantages of Watercolor March 6 & 7, 2025 In this workshop, we will explore those properties, with an emphasis on using the white of the paper to advantage, and ways to achieve transparency and light, a variety of edges, atmospheric affects and appropriate winter colors. The cost of this [...]
Margo Burian-Acrylic Sessions Workshop
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIMarch 3, 10, 17 and 24, 9 AM - 12 PM Students will learn about materials, a variety of painting techniques, and methods of working, both during class and through optional homework assignments. This class is suitable for beginners-intermediate painters. The cost of this workshop is $275. To find a complete listing of this workshop [...]
Diane Hamel-Beyond Words – An Icon Writing Workshop
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIMarch 10-14, 9 AM - 5 PM Participants will learn about and complete an icon of the holy “Prophet Elijah” in acrylic paint on a prepared wood panel. Diane will gently lead students through a step-by-step process using demonstration and instruction. All supplies will be provided and are included in the cost of the workshop. [...]
Margo Burian-Acrylic Sessions Workshop
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIMarch 3, 10, 17 and 24, 9 AM - 12 PM Students will learn about materials, a variety of painting techniques, and methods of working, both during class and through optional homework assignments. This class is suitable for beginners-intermediate painters. The cost of this workshop is $275. To find a complete listing of this workshop [...]
Margo Burian-Acrylic Sessions Workshop
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIMarch 3, 10, 17 and 24, 9 AM - 12 PM Students will learn about materials, a variety of painting techniques, and methods of working, both during class and through optional homework assignments. This class is suitable for beginners-intermediate painters. The cost of this workshop is $275. To find a complete listing of this workshop [...]
Margo Burian-Oil Painting – Nuts, Bolts and Bold Moves
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIApril 3 & 4, 9 AM - 4 PM We’ll start by experimenting with color mixing, mediums and using mark making techniques before moving into Alla Prima Painting techniques. Sketches and photographic reference can serve as a launching point for strong compositions, graphic narratives and work that is expressly unique. The cost of this workshop [...]
Kathleen Kalinowski-Painting the Landscape with Soft Pastel
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIApril 3 & 4, 9 AM 4 PM We will explore several surface choices, how to chose the right type of pastel at the right time, techniques for starting, layering, and blending in a painterly manner, lessons on small value and color studies, how using color temperature can give the artwork variety and luminosity. The cost of [...]
Barbara Schilling-Energize your Paintings with Textures and Design
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIApril 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2025 from 1PM - 5 PM Learn ways to create paintings that connect with people on an emotional level. In this 4-week workshop I will talk about how composition and design can tell a story (even with ordinary subject matter). How to use color to create moods, textures that [...]
Ralph M. Annunziata-‘exploringColor(orNot)’
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIApril 8 - 10, 9 AM - 4 PM it all seems to make sense but let’s step back a bit & consider a 'cross-like' [vertical & horizontal] configuration & thereIN what we have been provided is a ‘lightSource'_a prism so to speak - from above, from below & side to side - or even [...]
Barbara Schilling-Energize your Paintings with Textures and Design
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIApril 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2025 from 1PM - 5 PM Learn ways to create paintings that connect with people on an emotional level. In this 4-week workshop I will talk about how composition and design can tell a story (even with ordinary subject matter). How to use color to create moods, textures that [...]
Barbara Schilling-Energize your Paintings with Textures and Design
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIApril 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2025 from 1PM - 5 PM Learn ways to create paintings that connect with people on an emotional level. In this 4-week workshop I will talk about how composition and design can tell a story (even with ordinary subject matter). How to use color to create moods, textures that [...]
Catherine Tonning-Popowich-“Mono printing With A Gelli Plate”
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MICatherine Tonning-Popowich-Mono printing With A Gelli Plate April 24 & 25, 2025, 9 AM - 4 PM Students will learn mono printing using Gelli Plates, This is a hands on class where we apply acrylic paint on the plate, make impressions in the paint with various objects such as stamps, stencils, natural materials with textures [...]