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Fabulous Florals! Greenville, NY
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at this 1889 bed and breakfast in historic Greenville, NY.
SOLD OUT: Fabulous Florals! Orlando
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment overlooking the beautiful Wekiva River at Wekiva Island in Longwood, FL
ONE SPOT: Fabulous Florals! Madeline Island, WI
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a large light filled studio space on Magical Madeline Island!
SOLD OUT: Fashion Plate Portraits Sacramento, CA
Afraid to draw faces? Fear no more! I will demonstrate a photo transfer technique that works like a charm. Create a unique style portrait using black pastel over ephemera. Learn to gel print your own collage papers, create an encaustic effect background with acrylic, and have some FUN in spacious well-lit classroom right here in Sacramento!
Amazing Gel Prints, Sacramento CA
Design your own decorative paper perfect for collage, mixed media, greeting cards, and other fun projects using gel printing. Learn to create textures and layers of color through the use of stencils, stamps, and household items while exploring this fun form of mono printing.
Funky Feathers: The Rooster in Watercolor and Collage
David Lobenberg and Elizabeth teaching a duet workshop of watercolor and collage in Sacramento. Two days of watercolor, one day of gel printing, one day of collage application.
Fabulous Florals! White Bear Lake, MN
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the White Bear Lake Center for the Arts. Are you a Prince fan? Build in some extra time to visit Paisley Park as part of your experience.
THREE SPOTS: The Art of Eating: Mixed Media Journal, Tuscany
Enjoy a cooking class, wine tasting, herb gathering, private villa accommodations, and more while you create a visual mixed media journal to document your gastronomic adventures! All supplies are included.
SOLD OUT: Tuscany Watercolor Sketchbook
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to make a sketchbook and create watercolor sketched florals. All supplies are included–I’ll meet you in Tuscany! All supplies are included.
ONE SPOT: Tuscany Landscape Collage
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged landscape from your own photo. All supplies are included and I’ll meet you in Tuscany, Italy.
SOLD OUT Fabulous Florals! New Braunfels, TX
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers with the gel plate and stencils. Get ready to have some FUN!
Landscape Collage Techniques, Sedona, AZ
Learn to collage the spectacular Sedona landscape from a provided reference image of the iconic Red Rock Crossing. In working from the same reference, students will learn from each other while they master collage techniques for water, reflections, sky, greenery, and mountains.
Funky Florals, Rosenberg TX
Learn to create whimsical mixed media flowers in vessels on a background full of patterns. Incorporate acrylic paint, metallic leaf, stencils, and your own gel printed collage papers into a colorful, bright, piece of artwork. All level welcome.
SOLD OUT: Mixed Media Fish, Hawaii
Learn to create tropical fish with four different backgrounds in mixed media. Working on 10x10 panels, we will create a series of fish that can be displayed as a group. Enjoy the amazing weather and wonderful scenery of the Big Island of Hawaii where we will have private studio space at Banyan Bridge.
Funky Florals, Orlando
Learn to create whimsical mixed media flowers in vessels on a background full of patterns. Incorporate acrylic paint, metallic leaf, stencils, and your own gel printed collage papers into a colorful, bright, piece of artwork. Enjoy a FUN classroom environment overlooking the beautiful Wekiva River at Wekiva Island in Longwood, FL
Amazing Gel Prints, Sedona AZ
Design your own decorative paper perfect for collage, mixed media, greeting cards, and other fun projects using gel printing. Learn to create complex textures and layers of color through the use of stencils, stamps, and household items while exploring this fun form of mono printing.
Funky Florals, Sedona AZ
Learn to create whimsical mixed media flowers in vessels on a background full of patterns. Incorporate acrylic paint, metallic leaf, stencils, and your own gel printed collage papers into a colorful, bright, piece of artwork. All level welcome.
Fabulous Frida & Florals Whidbey Island, WA
You’ll be embracing portraits in no time with my easy photo transfer technique. Learn to create a portrait of Frida Kahlo in my Fashion Plate Portraits style and combine my Fabulous Florals! workshop techniques for her headpiece. Whidbey Island is a spectacular place to visit, the PNWAS is a spacious Art School with plenty of room to spread out and dive in.
Whatever Floats Your Goat!, Ireland
Learn to collage the Old Irish Goat with realistic animal eyes, fur, and personality in Mulranny, a seaside village on the isthmus between Clew Bay and Blacksod Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. Mulranny, located at the foot of the Nephin Mountain Range, has a number of blue flag beaches and a coastal lagoon.
Watercolor Sketchbook on the Nile, Egypt
Our journey is not just about painting. We will take in the breathtaking sights of Egypt, from sailing down the Nile to standing in the shadow of the majestic pyramids. As we immerse ourselves in the country's rich history and culture, we will create watercolor sketchbook memories that will last a lifetime.
Fabulous Florals! New Braunfels, TX
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers with the gel plate and stencils. Get ready to have some FUN!
Watercolor Sketchbook Sedona, AZ
Sedona Watercolor Sketchbook makes ink and wash sketching accessible to everyone. Go deep into the process of observing and recording, and through this find happiness in noticing the small details.
TWO SPOTS: Fabulous Florals! Sedona, AZ
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the Sedona Arts Center located in the heart of Uptown Sedona
SOLD OUT For the Birds Watercolor with David Lobenberg and Collage with Elizabeth
Learn David Lobenberg’s California Vibe watercolor style through demonstrations and guidance from the man, the master on day one! THEN be prepared to apply collage paper and mark making on day two for a mixed media experience with Elizabeth St. Hilaire. David and Elizabeth have been friends for years, often taking each other’s workshops in Sacramento.
Fabulous Frida and Florals, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Learn to create a portrait of Frida Kahlo in my Fashion Plate Portraits style and combine my Fabulous Florals! workshop techniques for her headpiece. This workshop combo is exclusive to Hacienda Mosaico for 2024. Stay for the FIRST workshop week and Saturday night accommodations at the Hacienda are free!
Fabulous Florals! Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN and COLORFUL environment at the Hacienda Mosaico located in Puerto Vallarta! Stay for the SECOND workshop week and Saturday night accommodations at the Hacienda are free!
THREE SPOTS! Fashion Plate Portraits, Sedona, AZ
Learn how to create a stylized fashion portrait over a unique ephemera background. Transfer your image from a photograph, play with mixed media, create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the Sedona Arts Center in Uptown Sedona, AZ
SOLD OUT Bella Botanicals, Tuscany
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to make a sketchbook and create watercolor sketched florals. All supplies are included–I’ll meet you in Tuscany!
Collage à La Carte–5 One-Day Workshops
Join me in this spectacular summer setting for one-, two-, or take all five-days! Arts Center of Yates County is offering five one-day workshops at Sunny Point Cottage, nestled on the banks of Keuka Lake.
Fabulous Florals! Denver
Fabulous Florals! my most popular three-day workshop in the heart of downtown Denver!
SOLD OUT Fabulous Florals! Sacramento, CA
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a large light filled classroom space at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center
Fabulous Florals! Whidbey Island, WA
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the Pacific Northwest Art School
SOLD OUT Fabulous Florals! Sedona, AZ
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the Sedona Arts Center located in the heart of Uptown Sedona
SOLD OUT Fabulous Frida and Florals, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Learn to create a portrait of Frida Kahlo in my Fashion Plate Portraits style and combine my Fabulous Florals! workshop techniques for her headpiece. This workshop combo is exclusive to Hacienda Mosaico for 2023.
SOLD OUT Fabulous Florals! Orlando, FL
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment overlooking the beautiful Wekiva River at Wekiva Island in Longwood, FL
SOLD OUT Fabulous Frida and Florals, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Learn to create a portrait of Frida Kahlo in my Fashion Plate Portraits style and combine my Fabulous Florals! workshop techniques for her headpiece. This workshop combo is exclusive to Hacienda Mosaico for 2022.
Landscape Collage Techniques, Sedona, AZ
This workshop focuses on techniques and processes for artists looking to grow and better develop their skills as landscape collage painters. Rather than working on one project from start to finish, we are going to focus in-depth on individual techniques, including painting landscape specific papers. You will finish the course with the skills and knowledge for collaging water, reflections, greenery, skies, and more!
SOLD OUT! Favolosi Florals! Tuscany, 2022
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. All supplies are included and I’ll meet you in Tuscany, Italy.
ONE SPOT! Fabulous Florals! Greenville, NY
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at Hudson River Valley Artists’ Workshop in Greenville, NY
Art Makers Denver
Three days of one day workshops offered by multiple instructors in downtown Denver. Art Makers Denver, an urban art retreat!
SOLD OUT Bella Botanicals, Tuscany, 2022
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to make a sketchbook and create watercolor sketched florals. All supplies are included–I’ll meet you in Tuscany!
Birds and Blooms
This workshop is a comprehensive class in which students are taught a unique figurative collage technique. Emphasis will be on developing form using light, shadow, and directional ripping– very similar to traditional painting techniques. No prior collage experience is necessary. Some painting experience would be helpful, but not imperative. Please register for this class at least 5 weeks in advance.
Mixed Media Airmail Art, Sedona, AZ
This workshop focuses on techniques and processes for mixed media with anchor elements being the US Mail; old letters, envelopes, postage stamps, vintage postcards. We will cover creating unique combinations and effects with ephemera that can stand on their own as abstract collage OR become backgrounds for my favorite collage subject, simple songbirds.
SOLD OUT Collage Basics One-Day Workshop DAY TWO
Join me at Wekiva Island in a private classroom space by the Wekiva River, just outside of Orlando, FL. I’ll be teaching one full day of Basic Collage Application with the Florida Landscape as inspiration.
SOLD OUT Collage Basics One-Day Workshop
Join me at Wekiva Island in a private classroom space by the Wekiva River, just outside of Orlando, FL. I’ll be teaching one full day of Basic Collage Application with the Florida Landscape as inspiration.
ONE SPOT Gel Plate Printing One-Day Workshop
Join me at Wekiva Island in a private classroom space by the Wekiva River, just outside of Orlando, FL. I’ll be teaching one full day of Gel Plate Printing tips, tricks, and techniques!
SOLD OUT! Fabulous Florals! Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at Hacienda Mosaico in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Fashion Plate Portraits, Sedona, AZ
Learn how to create a stylized fashion portrait over a unique ephemera background. Transfer your image from a photograph, play with mixed media, create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the Sedona Arts Center in Uptown Sedona, AZ
Bella Botanicals, Tuscany, 2021
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to make a sketchbook and create watercolor sketched florals. All supplies are included–I’ll meet you in Tuscany!
Favolosi Florals! Tuscany, 2021
Enjoy art related side trips, wine tasting, private villa accommodations, and more while you learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. All supplies are included and I’ll meet you in Tuscany, Italy.
Fabulous Florals! Whidbey Island, WA
Learn how to create loose, impressionistic collaged florals. Draw and paint from life, learn how to create your own collage papers, enjoy a FUN classroom environment at the Pacific Northwest Art School
Collage à La Carte
Join me in this spectacular summer setting for one-, two-, or take all five-days! Arts Center of Yates County is offering five one-day workshops at Sunny Point Cottage, nestled on the banks of Keuka Lake.