COLOR, DESIGN AND COMPOSITION IN COLD WAX AND OIL WITH PAMELA CAUGHEY
February 8-16, 2025
San Miguel de Allende
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL AND A WAITLIST HAS BEEN STARTED
Pamela Caughey is returning to teach another cold wax and oil workshop in San Miguel de Allende. This workshop will focus on color, design and composition as you develop your personal artistic voice.
There will be comprehensive presentations, lots of demos and plenty of 1:1 time with each student to make this a custom fit experience for each artist.
Those with more experience are welcome to bring works in progress as well as work on the color and design projects. We will explore the world of color and abstract composition as we absorb the beautiful environment in San Miguel de Allende to inspire our shapes, textures and colors.
The emphasis in this workshop will be using cwm/oils, however you may work in acrylic if you like. (Pam’s demos will be in cwm/oil). Design and Color principles apply to ALL 2D mediums, so if you are working in another medium, please don't worry, Pam’s demos and presentations can be applied to any 2D medium and she will be there to help you if you have any questions!
Be prepared to learn a lot, not only about color, but composition, balance and saturation.
This workshop is for beginner through advanced artists who would like to learn how to create “their best art” through powerful design and personal color. These techniques can be used by artists wanting to learn how to paint using cold wax, encaustics, acrylics and oil media.
Through demonstrations, presentations, and working one on one, each student will be able to approach a painting at any stage of development and understand the “when” and “how” to pull their paintings together to create art they “love.
A supply list will be provided upon registration.
This Escape Includes
8 nights at Casa de la Noche
Welcome reception and fiesta
All breakfasts, five lunches and 3 dinners (one lunch and one dinner on your own)
Visit to markets
Two cooking classes
Free time to explore
A farewell dinner with our amigo, Paco Cardenas, pastry chef and co-owner of Petit Fours'
Price: $3900, limited to 12 people based on double occupancy, limited single rooms are available for an additional $700.
A $1,000 non-refundable deposit is due upon registration. The balance is due Dec. 1, 2024.
Price does not include airfare to/from Mexico, alcohol, and travel insurance (mandatory).
Accommodations:
Airport:(BJX) Del Bajio Airport, Leon/Guanajuato which is 1 hour and 15 minutes from SMA. We will coordinate transportation.
Itinerary
Day 1, Feb. 8. Everyone will meet at the Leon airport for transportation to San Miguel. We will meet for introductions, drinks and little bites before we send you off to bed.
Day 2, Feb. 9. Breakfast is at the Casa every morning. We will meet in the studio at 9:30 each morning. Lunch will be provided and dinner tonight at La Posadita.
Day 3, Feb. 10. Breakfast, lunch at CDLN. This afternoon we will visit our friend, Mojiganga Master, Hermes Arroyo in his studio for a special class. Dinner at La Sirena.
Day 4, Feb 11. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Dinner is on your own.
Day 5, Feb 12. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 6, Feb. 13. Breakfast, lunch at CDLN. Dinner will be at Los Milagros.
Day 7, Feb. 14. Happy Valentine’s Day. Breakfast at CDLN, lunch at La Biblioteca. Tonight will be a cooking class with Chef Ana Elena Martinez.
Day 8, Feb. 15. Breakfast, finish up projects and have a Show “n Tell. You have free time to finish shopping or exploring. Our farewell dinner will be with our friend, Chef Paco Cardenas.
Day 9, Feb. 16. Everyone leaves.
Pamela Caughey grew up in Wisconsin, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from UW-Madison in 1983. After moving with her family to Hamilton, MT in 1986, she began her serious study of art, and in 2010 received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Montana School of Art. She works in many media, with special interest in cold wax/oil, encaustic, mixed media and acrylic.
Her work is in the permanent collection of several museums and public buildings nationally and internationally. After teaching foundations courses at the University of Montana, Bitterroot College, Montana, she is now a full time studio artist and teaches workshops from her studio, online, and around the country.