Caroline Gates

Indirect painting teaches patience. Alla prima teaches decisiveness. In this four-session course, we explore direct painting - working wet into wet, mixing color in real time, and finishing a piece in a single sitting. It's a different kind of discipline: less about correction, more about commitment to the first true mark. We'll begin with a...

This workshop offers an approachable introduction to figure painting from a live model. Working from a single, sustained pose, students will have the time to slow down, observe carefully, and build their painting step by step. We’ll use the limited Zorn palette—titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, and cadmium red—to simplify color mixing and help...