THE NEWARK MUSEUM WORKSHOPS




"Donna," palette knife painting by Shelli Ardizzone


Paint Like Van Gogh, Almost!
with Shelli Ardizzone

This process is a totally gratifying, a plunge into using a limited triad of color, and the palette knife to deliver and manipulate the paint. The students do a simple sketch of the still life set up, and learn how to mix a grand assortment of colors using the 3 primary cololrs and white. It is a color explosion, and painters of all levels push the envelope in direct color application. This is new and unknown territory for most attendees. Use of the knife, and the directly applied clean colors, seems to inspire inhibition, bipassing the usual adult sensors in the joyful creation of the work.

This collage of the still life set up, and the students paintings
gives a hint of the fun experienced at this Workshop.