What: Impressionist Landscape Painting in Oil and Cold Wax
When: Saturday, September 19th
What Time: 10am-3pm
Where: SOBO gallery
Member Price: $135
Non Member Price: $140
DESCRIPTION:
In this workshop you will learn my techniques for color mixing with oil and cold wax from a limited double primary palette, using warms and cools, to create a full spectrum of colors. We will explore the effects of transparency and texture to enhance the realism in your work. We will start with the basic principles of composition, learn how to sketch out a road map for success and apply layers of paint to created depth in your paintings. You will learn the techniques for using both palette knives and squeegees to apply your paints. You will complete (2) beautiful finished works of art, ready for hanging. We will work from Instructors reference photos.
INSTRUCTOR
Noreen Coup is a self-taught Artist. Her passion for painting and drawing began while living in Paris from 2000-2002. While there, she studied at the WICE Academy and continues her art education by taking classes and workshops from master painters for the past 20 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Woodbury University, Los Angeles. Her design background incorporates a sense of balance, color harmony and perspective, into her contemporary works.
Her medium is Oil with Cold Wax Medium and she paints mostly with a Palette Knife. Her technique allows her to create bold, colorful, textural abstract and landscape paintings. Her process involves the building up of multiple layers of paint creating depth and vibrance in her works.
Noreen currently has Gallery presence at The Winter Garden Art Association, where she serves as a Board Member.
While living in Palm Desert from 2021 – 2024, she was represented in the Coachella Valley at the Desert Art Center, Palm Springs, Artist Council at Galen Center in Palm Desert and the Old Town Artisan Studio in La Quinta. She’s had galleries presence with Carre d’Artistes Galleries in San Miguel d’Allende, MX, Bleecker Street, New York, Boca Raton, FL; Arts On Center Gallery in Amelia Island, FL., and Ile de Re, France.
Noreen was member of McRae Art Studios in Orlando from 2015 – 2019. She is an award-winning artist participating in juried Art Festivals including the Indian Wells Art Festival in 2022, Windermere Art Festivals and the Winter Park Winter Festival, 2018. She has taught classes for Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL. and the Winter Garden Art Association, as well as hosting travel workshops in France, Italy and San Miguel Allende, MX. Upon her return to Winter Garden, FL in 2024, she has resumed teaching at The Winter Garden Art Association and the Art Room in Windermere.
