Create a chromatic bold abstract artwork on canvas in mixed media in the GANG GANG gallery studio or from the comfort of your own home, with artist Catherine Whitting
Art is a powerful tool to heal and connect with yourself and others. It is not just for children or the professionals! Join me from the privacy of your own home online or onsite in studio this winter live from GANG GANG Gallery to connect to yourself via the freedom of textural abstraction in a CHROMOTHERAPY ABSTRACTION ART WORKSHOP as part of the Art Through a Designers Lens exhibition co curated with Jo Albany and Kate St James. Catherine Whitting
Use impasto and acrylic on canvas with Catherine Whitting to create a colour composition to coordinate with your interior
Workshop starts at 12:00 noon and runs till 3.00pm. You can come into the GANG GANG Studio Gallery and paint onsite with Catherine or participate via MS teams from the privacy of your own home as you follow a live video tutorial on textural composition .
Discover art as transformation. As a piece of art progresses during the creative process, so does the artist. Both grow and change to acquire new meaning. Art making often reflects one's "lived experience". Connecting to colour and texture in a process of abstraction is both empowering and enabling. Abstraction provides a unique abandonment of representational intentions, with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Let go and make art.
Catherine will meet you at GANG GANG GALLERY lithgow - or online via the MS teams link , for an introductory demonstration with time to make sketches to compose your personal responses colour and texture, you can follow the demonstration or vary your composition using similar techniques.
Participants will need to bring:
Bring any media you like to use for a small painting, keep it simple. This may include some of the following (available from art and stationery shops):
· 30 x 30cm canvas, or any small board or canvas ( ** participants who participate live in the gallery will recieve a complementary 30 x 30cm canvas)
· Artist quality acrylic Paint, or House Paint
· Oil pastels
· impasto paste or modelling compound or polyfiller from a hardware store, or plaster bandages ( anything that builds a textural base on the canvas - could even be tissue paper and PVA glue)
· watercolour paints ( optional)
5-10 assorted colours are plenty,
you will also need:
BRUSHES (2 or 3 small to medium soft brushes with round or pointed tips and a medium size soft flat brush is also useful, synthetic brushes are much less expensive than sable 2- 3 wider brushes, palette knife or spatula/scraper)
PAINT PALETTE (upcyle a plastic grocery package)
WATER CONTAINER (a wide necked bottle/jar or tin).
· Notebook
online participants will need a computer with wifi and download the MS teams app. A camera inbuild to your laptop is helpful if you want to share your work visually. You can also watch from your phone, but screen size is limited. All participants will be given a recording of the workshop afterwards. Online participants can be active or passive in the online workshop.
