POWERFUL DESIGN AND PERSONAL COLOR WITH PAMELA CAUGHEY
Takapuna, New Zealand, October 27-31, 2020
Due to the worldwide health crises, this workshop has been cancelled.
One of the often repeated comments people make about Pamela Caughey’s Personal Color workshop is, 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.
Students will learn how to mix and apply a wide range of colors, grays, and glazes through short, explorative exercises.
Pamela will take you through the Nine Stages of Creativity to discover your personal voice. You will start out as a child, playing, then grow into the rebellious teenage stage of messiness and confusion, and finally, the adult stage where you will make your final edits to your painting.
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.”
The majority of workshop time will be devoted to painting, with helpful demos and exercises to nurture the creative artist within. There will also be time for individual critique and discussion of each student’s personal artistic goals and progress.
House paint was used to create this painting by Pamela
Veiled Cold Wax Painting by Pamela
Schedule
Oct. 27 Class begins at 9:30 with a break at 12:30 for lunch on your own. Class will continue at 1:30 and we will work until 4:30-5:00. We will eat dinner together this evening at a nearby restaurant. It will be our opportunity to get to know each other outside of the classroom.
Oct. 28-30 Same schedule, we will meet at 9:30, break for lunch on your own, then finish the day in the studio with Pam until 4:30-5:00. Dinners are on your own these days.
October 31. We will meet again at 9:30, continue working until lunch (on your own), then return, make finishing touches, clean up and share our work from this week. Class will end at 4:30.
THIS ESCAPE INCLUDES
Five days of instruction by Pamela
Welcome dinner
Some art supplies
A new art tribe
Price: US$1300, limited to 12 people
A US$600 non refundable deposit is due upon registration with the final payment due June 1, 2019
Price does not include airfare to/New Zealand. Please do not make your plane reservations until notified.
AIRPORT: The Auckland International Airport is located Ray Emery Drive, Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand. Airport Code: AKL
Taxis to CBD range from NZ$38-75. More information can be found here.
LOCATION
Class will be held in Sandy and Jim Auckland’s Auckland Atelier at 124 Anzac Street, Takapuna, Auckland
Their fully stocked Takapuna Art Store carries all the supplies needed for a cold wax workshop.
A supply list will be provided at time of registration.
We will provide:
Latex gloves
Oil paints: basic colors of white, black, red, yellow, and blue
Baby Wipes (for cleanup)
Baby Oil (for cleanup)
Newsprint
Student work from Oaxaca, Mexico Workshop below.
It is a testament to Pam, that many students repeat her course because they feel they learn so much from her that it takes a few times to assimilate the lessons.
Below are some of the work created by our artists in San Miguel de Allende.
Pamela Caughey
Pamela Caughey 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 (Missoula Art Museum, Holter Museum of Art, Nicolaysen Museum of Art) and public buildings nationally and internationally and her work appears in the newly published book by Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin, “Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, Conversations.” After teaching foundations courses at the University of Montana, Bitterroot College (Hamilton, Montana), she is now a full time studio artist and teaches workshops from her Hamilton, Montana studio, throughout the country and abroad.