Pat Dews

www.PatDews.com
Great Starts, Great Finishes

September 19 - 25, 2010

Medium: Watermedia
Level: All Levels
5-Day Studio Class

Learn to think and paint in more abstract ways in this exciting, intense workshop. Discover new techniques and be exposed to new ideas. Focus is on the elements of texture, shape, value and color and the principles of design. Use unexpected materials to create a textured painting. Create rich surfaces using acrylic paint techniques, to transform a failed painting, into an exciting abstract piece. Make an abstract design understructure as a basis for a painting. Learn to plan/paint an abstract painting using a grid design. Use collage to learn composition and as a means of change. Learn to crop for good designs. Daily demonstrations and positive critiques help take the “fear out of painting.” Creating rich painting surfaces, learning new techniques and the importance of content in one’s work, students learn to think and stretch their imagination.  All painters, working in abstraction or realism, will benefit.

Pat Dews is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the National Collage Society and the National Association of Women Artists. Dews authored Creative Composition & Design and Creative Discoveries in Watermedia. She also has a video/DVD, “Designing Great Starts with Texture & Form.” Her paintings have also been featured in numerous books and magazines. She teaches both nationally and internationally. Dews’ juries National Competitions and served as a juror for the National Watercolor Society’s 2006 Annual competition.

Pat Dews, a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the National Collage Society and the National Association of Women Artists.

Dews’ creates experimental works in watermedia on paper and canvas.  She paints the abstract essence of nature.  The shapes and textures of flowers, rocks, water and crumbled walls are translated into richly layered paint surfaces.  Collage is often integrated.  Dews skillfully juggles organic and geometric forms, transparent and opaque paint - all held together by a basic abstract underlying shape.  It is this intricate dance, rendered in strong color and value which produces her award-winning paintings.  When Pat paints, it is a lively, fascinating performance as she shows that, with the simplest tools, less can become more, much more.

Pat is an enthusiastic, popular instructor, teaching workshops internationally.  She takes great delight in her students’ many successes.

Pat is the author of [the painter’s workshop] Creative Composition & Design, 2003, and Creative Discoveries in Watermedia, 1998, published by North Light Books.  Her work has appeared in numerous books and publications. Dews’ video, Designing Great Starts with Texture and Form is available through Cheap Joe’s.