September 12 – 14, 2025 | Friday – Sunday | 10 am – 12 pm, 1 hour break, 1 pm – 3pm Pacific Time
Medium – Acrylic
Materials List – Click the Materials List tab above
Registration – Each student must enroll individually. Click the Cancellation Policy tab above for more info.
Location/Time – Online via Zoom. 10 am – 12 pm, 1 hour break, 1 pm – 3pm Pacific Time. You can check your time zone difference at www.timezonewizard.com where you can enter your city & state and CA.
Want to learn new techniques for Abstract Painting? Bob has designed a new three day workshop with specific themes for each day.
Day 1 – Small, Colorful Multiples – How to create more meaningful abstract paintings in a small scale format! Not exactly a miniature, but artwork created for small spaces, based on graphic design, color and a strong concept. Bob has called these his “little gems” since 1996.
Day 2 – Figure in an Abstract Landscape – Without a model, learn to add a figure and life to your painting, the easy way. Paint the illusion of figures into a loose and juicy abstract landscape. You will learn how to create Bob’s memorable “carrot people” in different poses. For today’s modern art world, whether painting the figure in landscape or loose abstracts.
Day 3 – Adding Collage Papers to your Painting – This workshop day focuses on making your own collage papers, then experiment with layering collage, acrylic paint, water soluble pencils and crayons.
All days, you can expect demos, graphic design techniques and basic formulas. Plenty of painting time, and critiques from Bob. All levels. Handouts will be emailed.
Note: This course will be delivered via Zoom online meeting platform. You will receive Zoom meeting invitations for each day. If you don’t receive the email with the Zoom links, please contact Kate Burridge either via email at kate@robertburridge.com or text her at 805-459-1503 (text only – do not call.)
There will be ample individual attention consisting of daily critiques and comments from Bob. Students have the option of listening in to these individual critique sessions while they paint or just painting on their own.
Registrants will receive a more detailed daily schedule closer to the workshop with individual meetings scheduled with each student.
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Robert Burridge
In 1985 Robert Burridge turned his passion into his second career. He retired from industrial design and became a full time, contemporary fine art painter, moved to California’s Central Coast and prepared to paint the rest of his life. Today, besides painting, he is an invited juror for international art shows, a college and national painting workshop instructor, and teachs a fine art mentor program in central France. Recently selected as the Honorary President of the International Society of Acrylic Painters, he holds a signature membership with them and with the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.
His original paintings can be seen in six international galleries, on Starbucks Coffee mugs, Pearl Vodka bottles, eight tapestries and on fine art edition prints in upscale retail stores and cruise ships.
His work has received lifetime honors, including The Franklin Mint Award and recently the Philadelphia Watercolor Society’s prestigious Crest Medal Award for achievement in the arts previously awarded to Pablo Picasso, John Singer Sargent and Georgia O’Keeffe.
It is said, “Your heart doesn’t know how old you are.” For me, it’s true. Painting everyday in my small studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I feel like a kid again playing with color, design, paint and canvas, which reminds me of the saying, “It’s never too late to be what you always should have been.” Follow your bliss!
Robert Burridge Workshop
Creative Abstract Techniques
3-Day Explore and Experiment Workshop!
Suggested Materials List
1)Paints: Any professional-grade acrylic paint (no cheap, student grade paints). Your choice of colors.
Burridge will be painting with Holbein Artist Acrylic paint – colors to match his Goof-Proof Color Wheel, plus black and white.
Pyrrole Red Light •Marigold •Hansa Yellow
Cobalt Blue •Cad Green Deep •Compose Blue #1
Compose Blue #2 •Ultramarine Deep •Primary Magenta
Luminous Opera •Lamp Black •Titanium White
2) Any water soluble crayons or drawing pencils – black and your choice of colors. Bob will use Derwent InkTense pencils and Stabilo Woodies.
3) Brushes: Synthetic Blends, 1/4”, 1/2” and 1” Flat and 1/4” Round brush for acrylic washes.
4) For cleaning brushes: Murphys Oil Soap, “Original Formula” or The Masters Brush Cleaner. You will use this at the end of each day.
5) Surfaces: You can bring BOTH watercolor paper and canvases and/or cradled wood panels to the workshop. Here is the breakdown of each:
Watercolor Paper: You can use 10”x10”, 9”x12” or similar sizes, 140 or 300 lb CP. Bob will use Kilimanjaro and Fabriano Watercolor Paper. Pre-gesso your paper, one coat, one side – let dry.
Fabriano has a watercolor paper pads of varying sizes—140 lb. 50 sheets. You can purchase on Amazon. Pre-gesso before coming to the workshop. Have 5-10 pieces of your small sizes per day ready to go.
Canvas or Cradled Wood Panels: We recommend at least 1-2 canvases or cradled wood panels per day. Entirely optional.
6) Glue for Collage Work on Day 3: Polymer Gel Medium – gloss. Bob uses Nova Color Gel Medium #207. Have a 2” cheap brush for spreading the gel medium.
7) Also Day 3: Your own collection of collage paper scraps such as: Old letters, music sheets, photos (make prints from a Xerox copier), fabric or any other weird stuff you need.
8) Water container – such as a low, half gallon plastic bucket or a low 10×10 inch Tupperware-type container. (They don’t fall over)
9) Roll of VIVA towels or similar.
10) Hand Barrier cream or Nitrile gloves.
Cancellation Policy
Registration and Cancellation Policies
Registration
Each student must enroll individually.
Tuition must be paid in full upon registration.
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center at 928-282-3809, ext. 1.
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person at Sedona Arts Center during office hours, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
In-Person and Online Workshops
Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
There is a $125 Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before August 12, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after August 12, 2025.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.
Important Message
The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.
Bob and Kate executed the virtual course so that each participant was able to clearly observe demos, see the model, and participate in the group. His demos were very helpful as was his overall advise and instruction to artists at all levels.
Bob presents ideas clearly, effectively demonstrates concepts, and does so with great zest and personal engagement. He is clearly talented and reflects a genuine concern and interest in his students.
Very clear teaching style, easy to understand, the lessons built upon one another in a logical way.
He is a really good teacher and also so kind, warm, and encouraging. It's also nice having Kate there running the technology aspects of the workshop, and fielding questions.
It was surprising to hear this was his first class via ZOOM. Went exceptionally well. Need to make sure everyone is running latest version of ZOOM.
I'd prefer being able to do this in person, but I can't think of anything they could do to make the online format better. They really have this worked out. Love having both the overhead camera and the front facing camera. Lighting and sound are good. I'm impressed.
