big & bad abstracts:
3-day weekend intensive

If you know me, you know I'm no stranger to going large. Why? Because it's fun... magnetic... freeing... plus, it's more doable/affordable than most think!

Join me as I share my own process for going "big and bad" plus other tricks of the trade.

Students will learn about artists who also work larger-than-life and the different stages of a painting as I guide you through the process. The result: a large, mixed media 4ft x 6ft painting!

How will you get it home? That, too, we will learn more about, but know ahead of time that your painting will be completed on unstretched canvas.

Using bold brush strokes (connecting body to canvas) and discovering the right tools with a little pre-planning advice, students will walk away confident and comfortable with creating "monumental" works of art.

NOTE: this is an intensive workshop, for experienced artists who are intermediate up to advanced.

Supplies:

• ​Various brushes of all sizes—especially 2" chip brushes!
• Various colors of acrylic paint (you won't need buckets of paint or to bring every color you own, but do bring thinner consistencies like soft body, fluid, and hi-flow consistencies—invest in a few acrylic ink colors in neutral tones)
• Any large tools you already own—or find around home  (silicone spatula, silicone bowl scraper, silicone squeegee, large grouting sponge, taping knife, masonry brush, etc...)
• Any large drawing materials you already own (Art Crayons, Art Graf squares, Woodies, Neocolor II's, Derwent XL Charcoal, Lyra XL Graphite, R&F Pigment Sticks, etc...)
• Viva or Blue Shop Towels​​
• Instructor will supply everyone with a 48 x 72 inch canvas and its support, plus other supplemental materials.

3-Day Intensive Workshop Info:​​

• Cost $299 (canvas and some supplies provided)
• Friday, November 22nd – Sunday, November 24th from 10:00am-3:00pm with a 30 minute break
• Max 8 students
• Skill level: intermediate up to advanced
• Age level: adult (18 & up)

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About the instructor

Kristen Guest

Kristen Guest is an award-winning and published full-time artist and art instructor in San Diego, California. She graduated from art school at Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Art Education, that focused on painting, book arts and printmaking, and has been teaching realism painting since 2004 and abstract painting since 2018. Kristen currently works in three mediums: acrylic, oil, and pencil.

Kristen lives in Poway, where she works out of her home studio and has a local showcase room in Studio 6 at Ashton Gallery in the North Park area of San Diego. She is a Mentoring Artist and the Director of Education at Art on 30th, an arts community in San Diego's North Park historic arts district. Kristen recently became a Teaching Artist for R&F Paints and shares her love and knowledge of their Pigment Stick product line.

Her work is currently represented through Ashton Gallery in San Diego CA and Janssen Artspace in Palm Springs CA, and has been on exhibit with Sandstone Gallery in Laguna Beach CA, Borrego Art Institute in Borrego Springs CA, The Athenaeum Arts & Music Library in La Jolla CA, Huntington Beach Art Center in Huntington Beach CA, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in Port Angeles WA, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, Jen Tough Gallery on Artsy, and Saatchi's The Other Art Fair Online Studios Los Angeles.
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"Structure and fun is not usually combined in an instructional class, but Kristen does an amazing job at both! Thank you!

~Jen Klinger

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