Medium: Oil paint will be used for demos and technical discussions. Other paint mediums welcome.
Experience Level: All Levels/Beginner – Advanced
Materials List: Click the Materials List tab above for a list of materials students need to bring to the workshop.
Registration: Each student must enroll individually. Click the Cancellation Policy tab above for more info.
Location: Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio.
This class focuses on accessing personal expression in abstraction and understanding how to use visual language to create work that expresses your unique voice. You’ll be introduced to starting a painting in “Reckless Abandon” and gain clarity about your abstract voice through demonstrations and discussions emphasizing the interrelationship between emotional expression, composition, and painting technique. Oil paint will be used for demos and technical discussions. Other paint mediums welcome.
In this workshop you will:
Gain awareness of their unique abstract voice
Understand how composition is used to support their unique voice
Acquire “Compositional Checkpoints” to determine if a painting is finished
Learn color mixing techniques to express their unique sense of color
Discuss medium techniques and tool choices that best convey their unique voice
Marianne earned a BFA in painting from Washington University in Saint Louis, with post-graduate work in Japan, China, and at the Vermont Studio Center. A Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship recipient, Marianne has shown work nationally in New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Denver, and internationally in Scotland and Germany. Her work hangs in many important collections including The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Pew Charitable Trust, and Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center. Marianne’s paintings are in private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
A lifelong Philadelphian, Marianne and her husband lived in Denver CO from 2011 to 2019 when they returned to the Philadelphia area where they now reside in a historic Pennsylvania farmhouse.
Materials List:
Panels / Canvas
1st session assignment:
(6) Canvas panel or canvas paper: 11” x 14” or 12” x 12” or similar size
2nd and 3rd session assignment:
Your choice of the following:
a) (2) of any size Ampersand Brand Artist Panel or Gessobord with 1.5” or 2” depth cradle
b) (2) of any size stretched canvas or linen with 1.5” depth stretcher
FOR OIL PAINTERS
Gamblin Oil paint colors
1. Titanium White
2. Hansa Yellow Light
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cadmium Orange
5. Alizarin Crimson
6. Quinacridone Red
7. Cobalt Teal
8. Cobalt Blue
9. Prussian Blue
10. Dioxazine Purple
11. Viridian
12. Manganese Blue Hue
Optional colors:
Cerulean Blue or Cerulean Blue Hue
Permanent Green Light
Cadmium Red
Mars Black
Gamblin Paint Medium
-Gamblin Solvent-Free Gel – safflower oil painting medium 150ml/5oz
-M. Graham Walnut Alkyd Medium 118ml/4oz
Recommended Brush Cleaner
Weber Turpenoid Natural 16oz/pint
Note: You may use your own preferred non-toxic brand
Brushes
Princeton Brushes 6100 series – good quality, reasonably priced
Flat #16
Bright #12
Bright #8
Round #12 (optional)
Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Colors
1. Titanium White
2. Hansa Yellow Light
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cadmium Orange
5. Alizarin Crimson
6. Quinacridone Red
7. Cobalt Teal
8. Cobalt Blue
9. Prussian Blue
10. Dioxazine Purple
11. Viridian
12. Manganese Blue Hue
Optional colors:
•Cerulean Blue or Cerulean Blue Hue
•Permanent Green Light
•Cadmium Red
•Mars Black
Liquitex Acrylic Paint Mediums
•Gloss Super Heavy Gel Medium
•Gloss Medium and Varnish
Brushes
•Princeton Brushes 6100 series – good quality, reasonably priced
o Flat #16
o Bright #12
o Bright #8
o Round #12 (optional)
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Administrative Offices in the Art Barn, toll-free at 888-954-4442 or locally at 928-282-3809
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours at the Art Barn
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 February 28, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after February 28, 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.
David Naus @ Art Students League Denver
I just wanted to thank you for showing up as you and the inspiration you provided to our class as a result.
Carolyn Burkhardt-Padgett @ Art Students League Denver
You have the ability to take complicated things and make them simple, and to do that for a class of 16 people, and make them all feel good about what they are doing, is pretty amazing!
Judy Rubin @ Scottsdale Artists' School
Not only do you help people with their art, you also, through art, touch who they ARE. And that is a unique and a valuable gift.
Nichole Laizure @ Scottsdale Artists' School
This class absolutely helped inspire me creatively and I can't wait to get back to painting with the passion I had before. Taking a class that is beyond a traditional art instructions class, but one that asks "what it means to be an artist", has been such a great experience. It's inspiring me to really dig a bit deeper!
Kim Galligan @ Vero Beach Museum of Art
LOVED the course and spending time with you! You articulated your process so well, while giving us 'permission' to follow our personal path, and explore. Your words and talents were/are inspiring, and so inclusive. Thank you!
