SHARON CARSON

Sharon Carson's award-winning paintings embody dynamic composition, lively brushwork, and expressive color.In this workshop, Sharon will teach the painting process as a plein air painter, but we'll be painting indoors in the comfort of the studio. In her demonstrations she will paint as she does when she's on location - quickly and simply - a wet-in-wet approach which is effective for working either in the studio or on location. Still life exercises will encourage students to think about creative choices that will make their paintings more personally expressive. "I encourage students to paint adjectives, not nouns' in order to be expressive in their work. Don't think about how to paint snow, mountains, or shadows think about what you can use visually to best express the ideas of brightness, monumental, or cool."