Franciscan Life Process Center – Lowell Campus
Events at this venue
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Douglas Fryer-Painting With Purpose: Reimagining the Landscape
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIOctober 6-9, 2026, 9 AM - 4 PM Through lectures, discussion and demonstrations, Douglas will address the many elements of engaging landscape painting. The workshop will reinforce an understanding of composition and form and will also explore methods to break up and strip down the subject, then reconstruct it in new and surprising ways. The [...]
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Eric Michaels-Watercolor Free and Easy
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIOctober 13 & 14, 9 AM - 4 PM My goal in this two-day workshop is to supply the students with the necessary information and tools to paint stronger watercolors with more facility. This will include setting the stage, block ins, shapes, forms, and finishing them off. The cost of this workshop is $285. To [...]
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Richard Jordan Plein Air-Character of Trees Continues
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIOctober 13-15, 2026 I will share practical lessons to paint trees in a believable way while keeping their poetic quality. If the trees in your paintings lack structure, volume and a sense of reality, this workshop can help give you the tools to paint trees with visual truth but without the fussy detail. The cost [...]
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Patrick Lee-Simplify Your Process: Improve your Painting & Find Your Voice
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIOctober 20-22, 9 AM - 4 PM Get the most out of your studio time by keeping things simple, to-the-point, and powerful. Your ability to analyze visual data, break it down to its basic components, and record it, is the key to your development as a visual artist. Attendees may use oils or acrylics. The [...]
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Margaret Dyer-The Figure in its Environment
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MIOctober 20 - 22, 9 AM - 4 PM We will explore drawing, composition, anatomy, proportion, value, color and medium application. Emphasis will be on developing form using light and shadow, seeing the figure as part of the environment. The cost of this workshop is $680. To find a complete listing of this workshop please [...]
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Margaret Kriegbaum-Abstract Design
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MINovember 12 & 13, 9 AM - 4 PM How do artists and critics determine if a painting is successful, especially when it is abstract? This two-day workshop explores the elements of composition (line, shape, color, etc.) and how they influence our emotional response to the abstract picture plane. The course begins with short exercises [...]
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M. Joy Lemon-Realist Florals in Oil
Franciscan Life Process Center - Lowell Campus 11650 Downes St. NE, Lowell, MINovember 12 & 13, 9 AM - 4 PM Discover the timeless beauty of flowers in oil paint as you explore and utilize a variety of techniques to capture their likeness with confidence and efficiency. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn to carefully observe the play of light across petal forms and harness value [...]
