Seashore Shanties & Cottages
Workshop | Available
Join Marie for a a two day workshop that provides a simple and fast way of simplifying architecture by adding foliage. Leave the tight, drab, and laborious style behind and take your paintings to a new level.
Students will begin with a quick exercise in perspective and learn the basics when drawing a building.
Simple fixes using foliage adds interest to your painting but also resolves complicated areas that might be difficult to draw.
There will be a composition discussion and students will be encouraged to see relationships in angles, size, position and value.
You will learn to look beyond the photograph to enhance the beauty of what you want the viewer to see. The results will be fresh, clean, and luminous when using proper brush techniques and the direct painting method. Marie’s teaching style is relaxed, informative, and very entertaining!
- This class is designed for students with some drawing and watercolor skills.
Each student will be sent a drawing template to be done prior to class.
Marie Natale
Marie Natale started painting at the age of twelve encouraged by a teacher who recognized her early potential. Marie developed her talent through high school then went on to receive a Masters degree in Art Education from Rowan University. Thus, began a lifelong love affair with creativity and art, which has manifested in a variety of achievements.
An early advocate of art education for children of all ages, Marie taught in the public school system for ten years, and won the acclaimed “Teacher of the Year Award”.
Marie is also a businesswoman who founded Paw Togs/Enchanted Beginnings, a designer clothing line for infants and children. After successfully running this business for 10 years, Marie turned her attention to industrial design, creating gift products and plant containers distributed world wide via national chains such as Walmart, Lowes, K-mart and others.
Marie designed and painted covers for Exit Zero Magazine in Cape May, and Ocean City Magazine in Ocean City, both located in NJ. Her work is published in “Splash 14- Best in Watercolor 2013, and in Splash 17 through North Light Books.
A Signature Member of the Noyes Museum in Galloway, Marie has been exhibited in and captured many awards for her watercolors both locally and on the National level. Marie was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor in Aquamedia by Audubon Artists Inc.in 2013.
Marie currently teaches watercolor privately at her home studio as well as at the Ocean City Art Center in Ocean City, in Gloucester County, Cape May and at community centers and art guilds throughout the East Coast and abroad. Sharing knowledge of art theory and design as well as techniques in this exciting medium brings Marie full circle to her early training with a Master Degree in Art Education.
A signature member of both NJWCS and Philadelphia WCS, Marie Natale is an award winning and highly recognized artist who says her goal in life is to use her talents to make the world a brighter place.