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WORKSHOP INFO

animals gone abstract
2-Week saturday workshop

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Wanna find an easy way to help people connect with your paintings? Learn to paint abstract animals with artist Michele Joyce!

We are all looking for imagery we can use to convey humor, fear, happiness, sadness, and togetherness. Learning to paint emotionally evocative animals is a great way to connect a viewer to your art, especially when the animal has an unexpected or highly stylized quantity.

We will explore fun, easy techniques to create unquestionably quirky, crazy colorful, and absolutely irresistible little critters in your paintings.

Together we will learn various creative processes that will expand your creative approach to art and play with acrylic, inks, charcoal, collage.

Never painted before? No problem! All skill levels welcome. ​

Supplies:
  • 1 small or medium canvas
  • palette knife
  • palette paper
  • acrylic brushes in various sizes
  • acrylic paints in various colors
  • soft gel medium
  • colorful scraps of paper

Optional:
  • reference photos​

​2 Week Workshop Info:​​
  • Cost $125
  • October 8th & 15th
  • SAT AM, 10:30am-1:30pm
  • Max 14 students
  • ​All skill levels welcome​
  • Age level: adult (18 & up)

​Parking Info

Register ONLINE

​​​​Class Cancellation & Refund Policies

About the instructor

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Michele Joyce

Michele Joyce was born on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts and has lived in San Diego for over 30 years. Joyce’s early accomplishments include being kicked out of girls school, cheerleading and catechism. She later graduated from The University of Massachusetts with a dual major in Marketing and English. Joyce’s professional background is rooted in the creative side of advertising and public relations. Her foray into painting began with oils and contemporary realism 18 years ago at the Lela Hearty Studio, and has since migrated to acrylics and contemporary mixed media.  Michele began to share her art with the world in 2019 and has never been happier. 

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"Art on 30th is a TOTAL FIND. The instructor is excellent, the studio is a great painting studio. They help you get to places that you have not yet gone or imagined."

~Sheri Schelhaass
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Art on 30th, 4434 30th Street, San Diego, CA 92116  |  (619) 894-9009  |  arton30th@gmail.com

"An 8,000 square foot, 2-story art center focused on community."

HOURS
Sunday: Closed
Monday–Friday: 10am–4pm
Most Saturdays (except for reception days): 10am-4pm
See calendar page for our next opening reception date.

Cancellation & Refund Info   |   Parking Info

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"Abstract Painting" book on Amazon by owner and mentor, Kate Ashton


Art on 30th is ADA approved in all public spaces of the building with a wheelchair accessible front entrance and a handicap parking spot in our back parking lot with a ramp that leads to our wheelchair accessible back entrance. Studios on the 2nd level are privately leased and not part of our public space; artists can apply for wheelchair accessible studio spaces on the 1st floor as part of our Coworking Studios that we offer to the public for a monthly fee  with no commitment/contract (see our Rentals page for more info). 
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