Mixed Media Workshop-W/C, Pastel, & Acrylic with Dawn Gerardot Putman

This is very much an experimental class but one that always has a happy ending. We will be doing several paintings at a time and adding to each one during the drying process. This is definitely for those who want to step outside the box. If you fit in this category, come join me!

BRING:

1. Variety of brushes – good project for your junk brushes
2. All or any of the following: don’t buy, just bring what you have.

• Watercolors
• Acrylics (heavy body, fluid, craft) (include a few dark color colors), pastels, sharpies, gold leaf.
• String, fibers, cheesecloth, stencils

1. Substrate:  ½ & ¼ sheets 300# WC paper. We will be working on multiple paintings at the same time.
2. Other: water containers, mister, throw-away rags.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Dawn Geradot Putman has appreciated and loved art her whole life. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of St. Francis, she began to actively pursue a career in fine art in 1995. The dominant medium base of her artwork is any combination of watercolors, inks, dyes, fluid acrylics, heavy body acrylics or pastels. She believes the beauty of these water-based & chalk-based materials is in their unpredictability: Dawn comments, “I love to observe what happens when paints mingle naturally on paper, canvas or silk. Although I control the amount of color to be distributed, wonderful accidents do happen, and these accidents are the reason for my fascination with water & chalk mediums. I truly believe in color and the brighter, the better. I know the Lord gave me a beautiful gift which I love to share. I love to color my world in His name.