Powerful Design & Personal Color in Abstract Art with PAM CAUGHEY
For this workshop Muses is accepting deposits of 50% of total balance due at time of booking, with the remaining 50% due 45 days after initial payment. All accounts must be paid in full by April 1, 2024. Please contact info@musessantafe.com directly for financial arrangements.
With over 50k Youtube subscribers and a long list of fans Pamela Caughey is a real name in both art education and abstract art itself. In Powerful Design and Personal Color in Abstract Art with PAM CAUGHEY students will discover key principles of design and color to fill their artistic “toolbox” while also experiencing the beauty of Santa Fe through exclusive field trips around the city. Pam is a wonderful teacher and this class is not to be missed!
Pams guidence through the 9 stages of creativity will help you discover your personal voice, feature what you LOVE, and finish your paintings with confidence. Through new excercises students will become more masterful in the most critical areas of art making. Intermediate and advanced artists also greatly benefit from this course. The concepts of powerful design and personal color can be applied to any 2D medium!
In this workshop we lay a firm foundation in color and design through painting in 4 color palettes. By the end of class students will have started or perhaps even completed up to 16 small paintings! Throughout the process Pam will be assisting students with their own personal design language, or “alphabet”. With an emphasis on methods of abstraction, we will explore design elements and how they work together, as our alphabet does, to help you paint your own “story” in the visual language of art. This is an incredibly rewarding and exciting step in the artistic process. With Pams guidance you can not help but become more confident and adept in your own work.
In addition to Pams 4 in depth classroom instruction days students will embark on a private guided tour of the Georgia O’keefe Museum for a chance to witness these priciples at work in O’keefes incredible paintings, without the usual crowds. In addition, Director Stacy Nixon will lead a walking tour of some of Santa Fe’s best galleries representing abstract work on Canyon Road today, further supporting and inspiring our own artistic practices.
MEDIUM(S): Although this workshop is suitable for all artists, Pam highly recommends working in either acrylic or oil mixed with cold wax in consideration of drying times and design flexibility for the class. Demos are aimed at creating abstract paintings aligning with your personal aesthetic. We will focus on elements and principles of design rather than on any particular technique or medium but the lessons are universal!
Thursday May 23- Tuesday May 28, 2024
@ MUSES Santa Fe / 1512 Pacheco St. #D204 Santa Fe NM 87505
Workshop Info:
Tuition $1450 (includes field trips)
Lodging, transportation and meals not included
All skill levels welcome
Max 12 students
This workshop has a minimum enrollment requirement. It is good idea to purchase travel insurance if planning on making immutable travel arrangements.
Please note our cancellation policy: After registration and payment, students have 48 hours to cancel with a 15% admin fee deducted from their refund. After the 48 Hr cancellation period and up until 2 weeks before the workshop begins a refund will be given (-a 15% admin fee) only if the spot can be filled by another student. Please understand our cancellation policy is necessary to properly accommodate our guest artists who go to great lengths to be here!
Pams Materials List
Please bring what you feel most comfortable with and can carry in your suitcase!
NOTE: My demos will be in Oil/Cwm – you are welcome to work in another medium such as acrylic! The methods I teach in Color and Design pertain to all 2D mediums 😊
Questions? Email Pam:
GENERAL CLASS ITEMS
Gloves
Apron
Roll of paper towels
Wax or Saran wrap for covering paints at end of day
Roll of blue tape (for sectioning off papers)
SUPPORTS: We will be working on 16 paintings in a series, so it is best to work on the small size due to space. While you could work on rigid Baltic birch panels or cradled panels, for this workshop, I highly recommend you work on sheets of Arches 140 lb Oil paper (no gesso is needed) divided equally into 4 equal sections (See diagram, last page). This is a size that you can easily fit on your table and each sheet will yield 4 cohesive paintings! You may, of course, bring what you wish but my demos will show you how to work on 4 small paintings at a time on paper.
If you are a more advanced student and wish to work a different surface, please contact me at support@artandsuccess.com .
How to prepare the four-square Arches Oil paper (or Arches Watercolor Paper) surfaces shown in my YouTube Video 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLzT570k3k&t=77s
SUPPLY LIST for COLD WAX/OIL Artists
General Items:
Newsprint (if working in Oils/cwm)
Cooking Oil (Clean oil painting tools)
Palette knives (I recommend at least 2; my favorites are the Ateco offset Spatulas) 1 Messermeister tool 1-2 brayers of your choice (Inovart/Speedball are good brands)
Silicone brushes – varying sizes
Variety of texture tools
Oil Paints:
Any brand you may have and the following colors are recommended, but if you wish to use something else, you can use them instead:
titanium white, ivory black, cadmium yellow, ultramarine blue, cadmium orange, alizarin crimson, permanent green light, dioxazine purple, cadmium red medium
A few paints which lend themselves to glazing: Any color can be used as a glaze, but the following pigments are especially useful because they have a high oil content and thus are very good glaze candidates:
*INDIAN YELLOW *ALIZARIN CRIMSON *QUINACRIDONE Red *ULTRAMARINE BLUE *PTHALO GREEN/BLUE *SAP GREEN *PTHALO BLUE *Quinacridone Magenta
Mediums/ solvents:
* Gamblin Cold Wax Medium (or Dorland’s or any other brand)
* Galkyd Gel (optional but highly recommended; I use it to strengthen paint film, make it more flexible, speed up drying time and it gives a slight satiny finish to your work rather than a matte finish)
* One 6 or 8 oz squeeze bottle for mixing gamsol/galkyd (optional):
* Gamsol (made by Gamblin)
* Gamblin Galkyd liquid or Galkyd lite (liquid)(optional): use this if you like “drippy”
paint for working with paint brushes
Mark making tools:
A wide variety of markmaking tools: ArtGraf, Graphite, Carbon pencils, Lyra Graphitkreide, Stabilo, china markers. Carpenter pencils, etc.
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Santa Fe is also blessed with a very good art supply store, Artisan Santa Fe. Should you need any additional materials Artisan is typically well stocked (and fun!).