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Out Of Our Minds Gallery Presents:

Pat Dews

5 Day Workshop -Mixed Media

Learn to think and paint in more abstract ways in this exciting, intense workshop.

Discover new techniques and be exposed to new ideas.

Focus is on the elements of texture, shape, value and color, and the principles of design.

Use unexpected materials to create a textured painting.

Create rich surfaces, using acrylic paint techniques, to transform a failed painting into an exciting abstract piece.

Make an abstract design understructure as a basis for a painting.

Learn to plan/paint an abstract painting using a grid design.

Use collage to learn composition and as a means of change. Learn to crop for good designs.

Daily demonstrations and positive critiques help take the “fear out of painting.” Creating rich painting surfaces, learning new techniques

and the importance of content in one’s work, students learn to think and stretch their imagination. All painters, working in abstraction or realism, will benefit.

Pat Dews is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the National Collage Society

and the National Association of Women Artists. Dews authored Creative Composition & Design and Creative Discoveries in Watermedia.

She also has a video/DVD, Designing Great Starts with Texture & Form. Her paintings have also been featured in numerous books and magazines.

She teaches nationally and internationally. Dews’ juries national competitions and served as a juror for the National Watercolor Society’s 2006 Annual competition.

Where: Murray Harbour Community Center

Murray Harbour, P.E.I.

When: Monday through Friday

July 12-16, 2010

Cost: $480

Please send immediately, 2 post dated cheques of $240 each

1st cheque post dated March 15,2010

2nd cheque post dated June 1, 2010

Your received cheque is assurance of your seat in the workshop.

(Please email Sandi to let her know your cheques are on the way)

Please book asap as this workshop is limited to 20 seats and is on a first come basis.

It is filling up quickly!