Playing with Gouache Painting, with Patty Barnes

No painting experience or drawing skills necessary. Playing with Gouache is an opportunity to enhance one’s creativity and “playtime” as you learn a new painting skill. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, is non-toxic, fast drying, easy to use and highly forgiving. The class will focus on simplicity through the use of values, shapes and colors—always painting towards the light. If you can see, you can paint. Instructor will demonstrate staining and layering and then offer direction as participants work from photo references.

Materials list will be emailed.

Patricia Hopkins Barnes is an award-winning oil painter who studied drawing, watercolor and oil painting at Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, graduating with a BFA in Art History. Barnes earned her Masters at The University of Wisconsin. Her work has been juried into National Shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, The Creative Art Center and the Cape Cod Art Center. Barnes specializes in capturing the light of Cape Cod, often with a bit of whimsy. Patricia’s work has sold nationally and internationally. She is a juried member of The American Impressionist Society, Inc., The Oil Painters of America, and The Cape Cod Art Center. Barnes lives on Cape Cod with her husband and two spoiled dogs.

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