AbstRact blooms

Join us as we embrace the wild freedom of colorful abstract blooms! These gestural, playful florals will be created with acrylic paints on paper and canvas.

Using an intuitive approach, Jennifer will guide you as you create layered floral abstractions. After some free sketching & painting on paper, we will move on to a small canvas then go big and wild! Our goal is staying loose and playful…allowing spontaneity and imperfection to bring our wild blooms to life. 

Join us as we explore:

• Making a cohesive color palette
• Creating very loose sketches
• Building spontaneous layers and lines
• Making a balanced composition
• Embracing the imperfect, not perfection 
• Knowing when you’re finished with your abstract blooms

If you want to paint a one-dimensional still life floral, this class is not for you. If you love artwork with energy, movement and loose lines, this is perfect for you!

By the end of the class, students will not only have a couple small works on paper & canvas, but also a very expressive large abstract painting to admire at home! 
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Supplies:

• a watercolor paper pad (9x12 size is good, but if you have something different at home, just bring it)
• one small canvas of your choice  (8x10, 10x10, 12x12, 11x14 are good sizes, but bring what you have)
• one large canvas of your choice (minimum 24x24, no larger than 36”) 
• primary colors, white, black, raw umber, and any other colors you have or love
• various sized brushes (we won’t need large brushes until the last two class sessions)
• palette paper
• quality paper towels (like Viva or Blue Shop) or cotton rags

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Class Info:

• ​Next session: September 29 - October 27
• Cost $199 (5 classes)
• FRI AM from 10:30am-1:30pm
• Max 10 students
• ​All skill levels welcome​
• Age level: adult (18 & up)

​Artists who have taken this class may want to explore our. Intro to Abstract or Intermediate Abstract classes.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS...

• those who are brand new to abstract art
• those who want stronger composition skills

• those who love working with drawing materials
​• those who want to get loose and expressive

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About the instructor

Jennifer McHugh

California native, Jennifer McHugh, is an abstract artist who captures the moments, stories and nuances of the everyday, and brings them to life through a visual narrative. Her work is created intuitively, through many layers of acrylic paints, chalk, pencil, oil pastels, and other mixed media. Largely self-taught, Jennifer has explored many styles to help her evolve as an artist, but her work is always process-driven. Guided by spontaneity, she translates her inspiration without any idea of what the final product will be.
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Jennifer creates in her backyard studio in San Diego, CA, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her work is sold in galleries and boutiques in San Diego & California, and hangs in homes all over the U.S. and overseas. She also teaches workshops in her studio, local venues and as part of an artist collective that works with hotels and large corporations.

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~Monica L.

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