Floribunda

January 17-19, 2025

Friday - Sunday, 9am-4pm each day

Do you love flowers? Then you won’t want to miss this 3-day course, which is all about making expressive, joyful paintings in response to looking at, smelling, touching, and reflecting on flowers.

By gathering colors and curating marks, you will compose, layer, select, edit, simplify and celebrate these glorious subjects through paint. Emily’s process offers the potential to make images that capture the life, light, delicacy, fragility, toughness, and poetry of flowers. She will demonstrate — and invite you to embrace — the ways she creates to describe the complex layers of foliage, textures, and tangled stems, along with the froth, silk and abundance of the petals.

Emily will encourage you to make many paintings, to help you stay in the energy and flow of working. This practice of working in series allows you time to pause and really look at some of your work at the stage when it feels less finished or raw. You will be invited to revisit other paintings, in order to push them further. And Emily will share her process for evaluating and comparing her studies and works in progress.

The workshop includes:

  • Structured exercises

  • Demonstrations to help unpack the creative process

  • Strategies to foster an integrated approach to viewing sources of inspiration and responding to them in paint

  • Fun interactions with other participants

  • One-on-one instruction and support to help you develop work that is personal to you

  • Lots of opportunities for questions and feedback in a collaborative, supportive group environment

Mediums And Skill Levels

This course is suitable for:

  • Acrylic, Oils, or Mixed-Media artists

  • Beginners and Beyond (must have familiarity with the basics of working with paints, mediums, and brushes/tools.)

Pricing

  • Early Bird price (extended through December 31, 2024): $685

  • Regular prices (after December 31, 2024): $750

Your fee includes group and individual instruction from the instructor, facility usage (including easel and wall space and tables for your materials and supplies), flowers to use as references and inspiration, handouts, and hospitality (still and sparkling water, coffee and tea, and morning and afternoon snacks). You may either bring your own lunch or order from nearby restaurants and delivery services.

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