November 1 – 2, 2025 | Saturday- 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) then 1 pm – 3pm PT
You can check your time zone difference at www.timezonewizard.com where you can enter your city & state and CA.
Abstract Florals from Loose, Colorful Splatters
Paint modern, loose abstract florals that sell like crazy. Learn the secrets of Monet and others as you turn those colorful splashes into quick little gems. These Burridge “daily warmups.” Playing with wild colors, you will paint loose starts into little beauties.
You will learn how to make a vase of abstract flowers from a mess, using reductive painting techniques. We will work with different vase shapes, styles and learn how to paint stems and water!
Loose Abstract Landscapes
Paint with free rein and learn to run wild with looser landscape painting. Learn quick spontaneity with your imagination for maximum effect! Paint warm-up exercises using Bob’s four favorite basic compositions: Horizontal, Tunnel, Asymmetrical and Golden Section.
We will work with black and white acrylic paint to learn structure and value. Then switch to color, using both transparent and opaque acrylics.
If you are looking for more fun, this is for you! Burridge’s positive, fearless and supportive approach inspires everyone to paint with endless possibilities. Many demos, 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
2-Day Workshop – Loosen Up Florals & Landscapes
Suggested Materials List – This is only a suggested materials list. Do not feel obligated to purchase everything on this list. Purchase what you think you will need and use.
Paints: Any professional-grade acrylic paint (no cheap, student grade paints). Holbein, Golden, Daniel Smith, Sennalier are recommended. 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 •Luminous Opera
Cad Green Deep •Lamp Black
Ultramarine Deep •Compose Blue #2
Titanium White
2) Brushes: 1-inch wide or 1/2 inch round brushes.
3) For cleaning brushes: Murphys Oil Soap, “Original Formula.” (grocery & hardware stores) You will use this AFTER the workshop.
4) Prepare the Surfaces: You may need up to 2 Full Sheets (22”x30”) 140 lb or 300 lb. Cold Press watercolor paper. I recommend Cheap Joe’s Kilimanjaro Watercolor Paper, 140 lb or 300 lb. Cold Press. Keep flat. If you have WC paper pads – I recommend 140 lb or 300 lb – 9×12, 11×14 or 10×10 all fine. If you have full sheets, cut/tear the paper to the size you wish before the class.
5) Gesso the above paper – one side before cutting into any size you will be working on. Note: Bob uses Utrecht’s Professional Gesso as his white.
6) Final Coat – to be completed AFTER your workshop. Brush-on water-based POLYMER VARNISH with UVLS for “sealing” all paintings… gloss, semi gloss or matte. Bob uses Minwax Polycrylic Water Based from hardware store. Optional.
7) Small water container – such as a low 10×10 inch Tupperware-type container. (They don’t fall over)
8) Table covering – Clear 4ml plastic sheet, (Hardware Store) cut to fit your table. Tape down with strong tape. (Such as brown packing box tape – no blue or green painters’ tape.)
9) Roll of VIVA towels or similar.
10) The following materials are optional:
Hand Barrier cream or Nitrile gloves
Derwent InkTense Pencils or Blocks
Any other water soluble drawing product
Acrylic Inks, Fluids
Isopropyl Alcohol
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 October 1, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after October 1, 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.
