Add Life With People

Add Life With People

Workshops | Available

585 Park Street Naples, FL 34102 United States
Studio 206/207
Intermediate/Advanced
2/12/2025-2/14/2025
9:00 AM-3:30 PM on Wed Th Fri
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$385.00
$350.00

Add Life With People

Workshops | Available

Broaden your art skills and add interest to your paintings while enhancing the story you are telling! Learn many tips and techniques to include small figures to add life and movement into your painting. Workshop demonstrations will also include city and beach scenes. In this workshop, Nancy will teach how to compose and simplify figures by working with shapes, light, value, proportion and gesture in a few easy steps. Discover how you can paint people simply and effectively to enhance your landscape, and urban street scene paintings.

  • We'll break mid-day for lunch, so bring a bagged lunch or there are close cafe's to pick up food.


  • Reference Photos:  Your reference photos are very important! Have a bunch to choose from:
    If you have an iPad or laptop, please bring with your photos uploaded. Painting using your phone is discouraged for way too small to see.
    Also have printed (paper) photos off your computer. Print in high resolution with accurate color. I use the FedEx store to print out my photos since their color printer is much better than mine. We will probably be cropping elements from your photo, so please print it large enough so you can see details (at least 8 1/2 x 11).

    Buildings/ Structures: houses, barns, buildings, etc.

    Small Figures in a setting and also with street scenes: The figures can be out in a farmer's market, art fair, beach scene, walking down the street etc. Try to get figures with a light/medium/dark values on them (not backlit). Grab your phone and snap away!

     

    Pro Tip: Best to include photos with strong contrast; a light side and shadow side (not backlit)

                 Have a strong focal area as well as a foreground, middle ground and background

                 Keep it simple but not boring!

                 Print out photos in high resolution and in color, at least 8 1/2 x 11.

                 Photos will print out darker so I edit the image to make it lighter before I print it.

                 Crop in your photo and look for a big dominant shape

     

    The following is a suggested list. If you are already comfortable with the paints and supplies you already have, use those.

     

    Gamsol and container

    Paper towels (Viva works the best)

    Small Trash bag for dirty paper towels

    Gloves (latex to protect your hands from paint and solvent) optional

    Palette

    Panel transport box (optional)

    Palette knife

    Sketchbook with pencil, kneaded eraser (pen to take notes)

    Painting Medium (I like Gamblin Solvent-Free Oil Medium in the blue and white tube) but whatever is your preference

     

    Paints  - This is my palette and only a suggestion (not required). Use colors that you are comfortable with

    Titanium white

    Cadmium yellow

    Lemon yellow

    Yellow ochre

    Cadmium Red light

    Alizarin Crimson

    Transparent Red Oxide

    Cobalt blue

    Ultramarine blue

    Sap green

    Raw Umber

     

    Brushes -any brands you prefer. Recommended brands if you don’t have: Robert Simmon’s, Rosemary, Utrecht series 219 flats and brights, and filberts in various sizes

     

    Linen or canvas panels (9 x 12, 11 x 14) I would not suggest going any larger

     

    Any questions? Please contact me directly: nancy@inkstrokesprinting.com

Nancy Nowak

Nancy Nowak is a pastel painter known for her impressionistic style and her unique interpretation of the landscape. She has won numerous local, national and international awards for her paintings and has exhibited throughout the United States as well as France and Italy. Nancy’s pastel paintings have been featured in Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, Pratique de Arts, multiple times in Pastel Journal Magazine and in the new book, Pure Pastel. Nancy Nowak is a highly knowledgeable and sought after art instructor throughout the country. She is known for her passionate, inspirational and friendly teaching style. Nancy achieved Eminent Pastel status with the International Association of Pastel Societies. She is a Signature Member of The Pastel Society of America, a Signature Member of The American Impressionist Society, and a Member of Excellence in the Southeastern Pastel Society as well as being on The Board of Directors of the International Association of Pastel Societies. See her website at www.nancynowak.com