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Flower Garden Gone Wild (Abstracting the Garden)

  • August 17, 2025
  • 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • 1601 W. Alabama at Mandell, Houston, Texas 77006
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Flower Garden Gone Wild! (Abstracting the Garden)

Susan Giannantonio

One-Day Workshop

Sunday, Aug 17

9:30 am - 3:30 pm

$85 Regular Tuition

$75 WAS-H Members Tuition


Sketch fast & furious with mixed media

Tear up your sketches
Fill your sketchbook with collage abstractions

Create energetic, gestural impressions of the garden with quick studies. Use those studies to compose sketchbook collages that will serve as great reference material for future paintings. Some, in fact, will often stand alone as complete and successful compositions. You will have never had such fun filling your sketchbook!

Supplies, below, are optional. Use what you have!
There are many brands of paint, brushes, paper and they all work for this type of sketching.

Paper:

Sketch paper or even printer paper or thin watercolor paper
A sketchbook for collaging.

Glue:
Matte Medium or Gel Medium or Mod Podge or Tacky glue

Tools (all optional!, don’t buy new):
A few brushes:
Fan brush
Liner (rigger) brush
½” flat brush
½: mop brush
Palette knife
Spray water bottle
Credit card or catalyst wedge
Any type of drawing media—posca pens, pencils, etc

Paint:

Favorite landscape colors of acrylic paints, limit palette (you don’t need a lot.) Even craft paint will work but it is nice to have artist grade paint if you can.
I use, for instance:
Deep Green
Chromium Oxide
Dioxazine Violet
Quinacrodone Violet
Quinacrodone Magenta
Cobalt Blue
Hansa Yellow
Cadmium Orange
White
Black


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