Advance Your Painting Skills & Find Your Unique Voice
October 4 & 5 | Weekend Workshop
Let’s talk about advancing your painting skills, painting from photos, painting from your soul, the push pull of color and finding your unique voice as a painter.
Rodger Bechtold
Workshop Schedule - Both Saturday & Sunday
Morning Session: 9:30 AM - 12 PM
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Open to All Levels - Whether you’re a beginner or experienced painter
All mediums welcome - Bring your preferred painting materials
Presented for the benefit of the Washington Island Art Association
This weekend workshop offers the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in painting, learn from an accomplished artist and connect with fellow painters.
Space is limited. Call Cathy Meader (262) 496-5218 to register.
Cost: $200
The Midwest is close to my heart; after all, it’s the place where I’ve lived all my life. The heartland of this country possesses such uncomplicated and straightforward beauty. This simplicity of the these ever changing vistas resonates with me the way music does.
Beginning a painting from the initial inspiration is one thing, but to carry that inspiration through an evolution of risk and change is quite another. I must work until that painting stands alone and finally has something to say.
Taking “cues” from nature, my color choices have become intuitive, a subconscious response to what I see – true too for my studio work, where there is more latitude for experimentation and invention. I want to layer the painting with interest so a viewer can relate to the time and place, color relationships, abstraction, and brush work, and see this as the largest statement possible contributing to the ongoing discourse of contemporary painting. I paint with an orchestration of form and color that makes the separation between representation and abstraction nearly indistinct.
Caught up in an ever-hyper-busy-world, we seem to be drifting away from something very precious, a bond with the land that’s ages old. My hope is that my painting might somehow rekindle an interest in what wonder surrounds us every day and yet goes unnoticed.