In our continued effort to provide quality cultural programing for the local art community, Carmel Visual Arts offers a unique series of monthly painting & photography demonstrations and lectures. World-class instructors will be here to teach multi-day workshops and you can get a unique glimpse into their instruction and painting approach by attending their demos before their workshops. Each evening doors will open by 6:00pm and...
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Carmel Visual Arts offers a compelling line-up of fine art workshops from world-class professional artists. Some of our past art workshop instructors have included Marc Dalessio, Mary Whyte, Matt Smith, Max Ginsburg, Sean Cheetham, Ray Roberts, Daniel Keys, Lori Putnam, Robert Liberace, Michael Mentler, Calvin Liang, Shelby Keefe, Kerik Kouklis, Randall Sexton, Karl Dempwolf, Charles Muench, Larry Moore and many others… Both...
Read MoreIt may not be as perfect or as beautiful as a fine plein air oil painting, but a Pocket Sketch, as taught by Kath Macaulay in her upcoming Pocket Sketching workshop at Carmel Visual Arts, will be personal and meaningful and just as ‘fresh’. This workshop is for the beginner wanting a launch into creating original art anywhere, and also for the professional who wants extreme portability, freshness of impression, with no clean-up. As a...
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Our two back-to-back workshops with the prolifically proficient painter and all around nice-guy Daniel Keys was attended by 16 students the first week and 12 the second. He placed brush-stroke limits on us and joked about how we would paint differently if he was charging $10 for each stroke. Smudging and blending and muddying the paint on the canvas was something that he showed would make weak images. Simple, bold, clean strokes that...
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