Flower Painting: Botanical Study to Flower Still Life

Barbara Thomas

Saturday & Sunday, March 1 & 2

10am-3pm

Kat in the Hat Classroom

$300, $285 mbrs.

This workshop is a total immersion in the beautiful practice of painting flowers. The tropical flora of Key West provides stunning ‘models’ for our work, or students can bring in their favorite tropical flowers.

The traditional paint for botanical study is gouache watercolor. With a limited palette of these tube colors, we’ll learn to mix colors, how to lay in a simple flower study and closely observe the physical make up of flowers. Class will break for lunch 12pm-1pm, during which we can discuss our work.

In the afternoon students can continue their flower explorations with a full floral still life, or other ways to express the beauty of flowers, using acrylic, oil, or gouache. Sunday we’ll warm up with some quick expressive flower exercises, then continue work on our still life. Barbara Thomas will help guide the work, providing useful methods for capturing the details of all kinds of flora, laying in a still life, etc.

Barbara Thomas was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her father was Fritz Siebel, renowned illustrator of such children’s classics as the Amelia Bedelia series. Barbara’s first formal art education was at The Art Students League in New York City, where she studied painting under naturalist painter Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978), followed by Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York. Barbara has an MFA degree from Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts. For ten years Barbara worked as an advertising art director in New York City, and then moved to the East End of Long Island, where she turned to painting full time.

Sunset Painting

Barbara Thomas

Friday, February 28

5-7:30pm

Kat in the Hat Classroom and Offsite

$160, $145 mbrs.

Sunset painting is so fun and challenging! Students meet at The Studios to go over the process with helpful tips on how to achieve effects in sunset painting, mixing colors, creating light, etc. The class will head over to the painting spot after the short demo and build their color and form while watching the beautiful glow of sunset!

Barbara Thomas was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her father was Fritz Siebel, renowned illustrator of such children’s classics as the Amelia Bedelia series. Barbara’s first formal art education was at The Art Students League in New York City, where she studied painting under naturalist painter Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978), followed by Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York. Barbara has an MFA degree from Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts. For ten years Barbara worked as an advertising art director in New York City, and then moved to the East End of Long Island, where she turned to painting full time.