Becoming a Courageous Painter

Service Description

Thursdays: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm December 4, 11 & 18 Cost: $50 Are you a painter? Would you like to create more bold and exciting paintings? Learn more about the use of color, value (light and dark) and composition? The class focuses on making your paintings more creative and dynamic. Gentle critiques and optional assignments or just plain help with problem solving in your creative process. Deon uses an individualized teaching method which is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced painters of all levels. All painting and sketching media accepted. Deon Matzen paints in both oil and watercolor, though the watercolor is often on unusual substrates like hardboard She paint animals, old buildings and trucks (unrestored). Recently she started a sequence of watercolor birds. Her main genre is "vanishing rural America." Her inspiration is anything with color. She has completed 144 dog portrait commissions, several dozen cats, a pig, and a family of ducks. Deon has a degree in fine art and has painted continually since 1995 in watercolor for the first ten years then switching to oils. Now she works with both. How to pay: Please pay the entire $50 before or at the first class 1. pay through the donate button on createspacelangley.org 2. pay by check made out to WIAC (Whidbey Island Arts Council) and place in payment jar in the classroom. 3. pay by cash placed in payment jar in the classroom . Please please the entire amount even if you can't attend all 6 classes. If you can't afford $50, pay as you are able. Your payments ensure the future of Create Space.