Pickle Street School Studio

A working art studio located in scenic Monterey Township, Michigan

Pickle Street School Studio is a one-room school building renovated and transformed into an art studio offering a variety of arts and enrichment classes and workshops.

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Composition, Your Creative Self, and the Mastery of Your Art


  • Pickle Street School Studio 2980 134th Avenue Hopkins, MI, 49328 United States (map)

with Diane Van Noord

  • Three day workshop: Fridays, October 9, 16, and 23, 2020

  • 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. daily

  • $250.00

In this 3-day workshop you will learn the basic elements of 2D composition that will serve as the foundation for inspiration. You will explore and express by implementing composition elements in a collage, landscape painting, and mixed media landscape work. These three distinctly different works will help you see foundational elements applied and understand how they might reach greater mastery of their art and cultivation of the creative spirit within.

Bring your freedom of expression and spirit of adventure to this 3-day workshop with daily mini coaching sessions with Diane to gain reflection and personal insight about your art!

MATERIALS TO BRING:

A complete supply list all materials will be provided.

Contact Pickle Street School Studio to register.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Encouraged as an artist from a young age, Diane began painting professionally in her mid-thirties. Since then, she has been juried into over 80 local, regional, and national exhibitions and received awards, along with having paintings published in several art magazines, articles, and books. She teaches painting workshops, and painting/life coaching workshops using her self-published “Composition Handbook for Painter with Life Application.”

Exploring her impressions, moods, and love of the landscape through painting, Diane paints in oils with palette knife. Color, shape and rhythm are the basic elements she uses to explore her love of the natural world, in her impressionistic landscapes and in her more abstracted oil/cold wax/mixed media landscapes. She also paints and teaches privately in her studio in Grand Haven, Michigan.

View Diane’s artist website at dianevannoord.com

Earlier Event: October 8
In-Depth Drawing
Later Event: May 5
Dare to Draw!