Art
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Grace DeVito-Painting the Organic Still Life
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJune 23-25, 2026 Join nationally acclaimed artist Grace DeVito for a 3-day oil painting workshop “Painting the Organic Still Life”. Learn her process of multi layered still life painting by lecture, demonstration and critiques. Focus will be given to technique, paint application and creating form. The cost of this workshop is $545. To find a [...]
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Phil Starke-Mixing Color to Suggest Light and Form
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJune 23-26, 2026, 9 AM - 4 PM Unlock the power of color to create light, depth, and three-dimensional form in your paintings. This class focuses on the essential skills of color mixing as a means to capture atmosphere, model form, and direct the viewers eye. The cost of this workshop is $700. To find [...]
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Barbara Schilling-Be Bold!
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJune 30 - July 1, 9 AM - 4 PM Creating a successful painting is about more than just utilizing skills. A painting should be more than just a representation of a subject. No matter how skillfully executed, without passion and energy your work will not hold a viewers attention. Find out how. The cost [...]
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Ralph Annunziata-‘ w i t h I N & w i t h O UT’
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJune 30-July 2, 2026, 9 AM - 4 PM we'll work solo canvases as well as indulge a 'series' explorations through abstractExpression & representational components to enhance our own clarity from withIN silent walking meditation or just quietly sit with 'softFocus' eyes to feel, to listen to BE_PRESENT withOUT these BEautiful franciscanCenter grounds - The [...]
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Kathleen Conover-PAINTING FROM THE RIGHT (AND LEFT) SIDE OF THE BRAIN
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJuly 6-8, 9 AM - 4 PM The best paintings aren’t always planned, and they aren’t totally intuitive. They are a marriage of intent, basic design skills, and freely expressing our personal interpretation of the world. The cost of this workshop is $600. To find a complete listing of this workshop please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kathleen-conover-painting-from-the-right-and-left-side-of-the-brain-tickets-1070948960169?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Robin Cole-Natural Harmony: The Limited Palette
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIRobin Cole-Natural Harmony: The Limited Palette July 7-9, 2026, 9 AM - 4 PM This workshop offers a deep dive into the benefits of working with a limited palette consisting of one pigment from each primary color family (yellow, red, blue) plus white. This simplified approach is one of creative constraints that trains the mind [...]
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Jon Redmond-Finding Perfect Balance
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJuly 14-16, 9 AM - 4 PM This workshop will help you gain the ability to push your paintings in opposing directions, introducing chaos and control into the act of painting. Loss of control is often necessary to push one’s paintings out of their comfort zone, focused critical correction can pull it all together. The [...]
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Telagio Baptista-The Magic of Watercolor
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJuly 14-16, 9 AM - 4 PM You will learn how to make a striking painting that employs a single-color, discovering simplicity with a 3-color palette, and fearless landscape or floral painting. Telagio will demo everyday and provide handouts to you, and provide one on one support. The cost of this workshop is $620. To [...]
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Julie Tibus-Explore Cold Wax and Oil Paint
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJuly 28 & 29, 9 AM - 4 PM Explore the fascinating medium of cold wax! Discover its unique buttery texture as we experiment with oil paint, graphite, and oil sticks. You'll create four small abstract artworks throughout the day using tools like stencils, spatulas, and brayers. The cost of this workshop is $285. To [...]
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Kyle Ma-Landscape Painting Workshop
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIJuly 28-31, 9 AM - 4 PM Students will also learn how to apply the fundamentals of painting, such as drawing, values, color, and edges to painting a landscape. Having solid fundamentals will give the students confidence in being able to paint whatever scene they are presented with well. The cost of this workshop is [...]
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Mary Qian-Costumed Figure Painting
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIAugust 11-13, 9 AM - 4 PM The goal of the class is to teach using value, color and edge as 3 essential tools to create naturalistic human portraits. The class will use one setup for the entire workshop. To focus on value, colors and edge each 3 days, to create realistic portraits and figures. [...]
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David R. Smith-Fresh and Exciting Watercolors
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIAugust 11-13, 2026, 9 AM - 4 PM This workshop will save you countless hours of trial & error by demonstrating approaches in an easily understood manner that will open new doors of discovery and creativity. Participants will be provided reference photos, drawing guides, and step-by-step instruction through all stages of the painting process. The [...]
$595