Award winning artist, Derek Penix presents a 3-day workshop for all skill levels from beginner to advanced. Penix will cover topics such as the power of warms and cools, complimentaries, harmony, edges, shape-quality, variety, simplifying, loosening brushwork, elements of design, elements of light and shadow, the power of suggestion and seeing in terms of mass and shape relationships. There will be a strong emphasis on making your paintings more three-dimensional. Students will use oils (other mediums are welcome) to paint from photos. They will have a choice of dozens of photographs consisting of boats, cityscapes, figures, birds, hanging fruit and fish. Students will also have the option to paint from their own photos if they choose.

This class talks about the science of drawing. It is based on a class in observational drawing that I taught at Indiana University for almost 40 years. The class stressed important concepts in observing and how to use them together to strengthen our abilities to draw representational work.