painting flowers
instructed by janet mego
Capture the Glory of Flowers: Learn techniques in your favorite medium to convey a variety of flowers in paint. For all ability levels.
Whether you’re using watercolors or acrylics, you can make flowers spring to life on paper or canvas just in time for Mother’s Day! Work from still-life flower arrangements with Janet Mego, an experienced teacher and artist whose goal is to individualize instruction to help each student produce a stunning flower painting in his/her chosen medium. Drawing and painting skills emphasized.
Needed Supplies:
-Soft pencils and gum eraser
-Watercolor or acrylic paints
-A variety of quality brushes
-Watercolor paper or canvas
-Jars
-Palette
-Paper towels.
Flowers will be provided, but if desired, you may bring your own.
This class has a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 12. If the class does not meet the minimum, participants will be refunded. Tickets are non-refundable once the registration deadline ends.
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Please email Mary Bell, Program Director, at mbell@kentuck.org with any questions.
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Kentuck workshops are non-refundable after the registration closes. If you would like to cancel before the deadline passes, please email mbell@kentuck.org or call 205-758-1257. If the class does not meet the minimum by the registration deadline and the workshop is cancelled, all participants will be refunded their registration fees.
details:
Dates: May 4-5, 2024
Times: 1-4 PM both days
Location: Kentuck Art Center's Georgine Clarke Building classroom
Tuition: $75
Ages: 18+
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Needed Supplies:
-Soft pencils and gum eraser
-Watercolor or acrylic paints
-A variety of quality brushes
-Watercolor paper or canvas
-Jars
-Palette
-Paper towels.
Flowers will be provided, but if desired, you may bring your own.
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This workshop is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
meet the instructor
Janet Mego
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I have been compelled to draw, paint, and sculpt since I was six years old. From the first grade upward, after earning first place in a juried show in the first grade, and later receiving recognition for my early artistic endeavors in Baltimore, Maryland, I then earned a BFA in Art at the University of Alabama. Much of what I do has been influence by the fine art of “learning to see”, implemented masterfully by those professors essential in taking me far beyond the face value of that degree. I’m graced in this regard by having studied with Professors Alvin Sella, Richard Zoellner, and Arthur Oakes.
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After graduation, I began working with watercolor portraiture and continued to exhibit pieces in galleries and patron’s homes in several counties throughout Alabama. Placing in juried shows and exhibitions concomitant with my tenure as Artist in Residence for the Sumter County Fine Arts Council in the 1980s, and as adjunct art instructor for Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama), I continued to explore the intricacies of the human face and its expression of emotion. Concomitantly, I felt a spiritual awareness of the beauty of nature creep from my soul into the watercolors that had become my favorite medium. Later, I rediscovered and applied the acrylic paints I’d used in college to canvas and to a more abstracted interpretation of trees, of water, of sky, and of terrain.
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