Level: all
Sat & Sun
Jun 26 - Jun 28
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Vickie Marsango
Fee: $325
Expressive Explorations with Vickie Marsango
Sat & Sun, Aug 21 & 22, 2021 (10am-4pm)
NOTE THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE NEXT SUMMER.
This workshop is designed for students who wish to explore expressive drawing and acrylic painting with an emphasis on creative thinking. Students will discover fundamental techniques through painting exercises merged with an innovative approach to color harmony, compositional balance, and spontaneity. Students are encouraged to explore their individuality. This workshop is beneficial for anyone interested in taking risks with painting, and for artists who want to strengthen their own voice and confidence as a painter. All levels welcome.
We suggest you register early, as enrollment is limited.
SUPPLY LIST:
PAPER:
- Watercolor Pad (large sheets 18”x24”)
CANVAS:
- 3 or more stretched square canvases
- 24”x24” or larger up to 36”x36”
- (If using unstretched rolled canvas please have a board to attach to)
ACRYLIC PAINT: (suggested)
- Titanium White
- Black
- Raw Umber
- Prussian Blue
- Phthalo Blue
- Phthalo Green
- Green Gold
- Indian Yellow
- Cadmium Yellow
- Hansa Yellow
- Quinn Magenta
- Alizarin Crimson
- Nap Red
- Other – Your Favorites
MEDIUM:
- GAC 100 or Glazing Medium (satin not gloss)
BRUSHES:
- Egbert Brushes (small /large)
- Round and Filbert Brushes 6,8,10,12
- (or Assortment of any brushes you have)
SHAPERS (silicone)
PENCILS
STABILO: Black – with Sharpener (woody 3 in 1 crayon)
CARAN D’ ACHE Neocolor I (Crayons)
Mark-making tools (any)
Masking Tape
Paper Towels
Palette of Choice – Palette Paper, Wax Paper, Freezer Paper (or other) – No glass
Ruler
Scissors
Note: Egbert brushes, black stabilo, and GAC 100 are strongly recommended.
About Vickie Marsango
Vickie Marsango is a contemporary abstract expressive artist and instructor at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida and many locations throughout the United States. She offers Abstract Expressionism, Creative Painting, Encaustics, and Mixed Media courses and workshops.
Vickie has studied at colleges and universities in Illinois and California, along with extensive courses, workshops, retreats, & residencies with master artists such as Steven Aimone, Krista Harris, Nancy Hillis, Audrey Phillips, Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch, Ellen Koment, and Stewart Cubley.
Creating paintings that establish harmonious arrangements of mark-making, tonal values, colors, and shapes, with an emphasis on theories of visual weight, define her well balanced compositions. She enthusiastically employs proportional relationships, informed decision making, and spontaneity in her painting practices.
Marsango is intrigued by interior design, seascapes, landscapes, nature, poetry, and music. Due to the intentional breakdown of shapes and forms, by the use of expressive drawing, the lines and colors observed in everyday life transpose into abstraction.
As an instructor, she is acclaimed for her unique perspective on self-expression and the creative process. Her creative energy is enhanced by building her own unique lesson plans and painting exercises for students as she instructs them. She introduces her students to works by contemporary abstract artists, many of those she has painted and studied with, and abstract expressionist artists such as Joan Mitchell for added observation and inspiration. Vickie’s teaching style encourages students to find a balance between knowledge of compositional elements and the intuitive process of painting.
Working with oil, acrylic, encaustic beeswax, pigments, mixed media, collage, and assemblage, she has incorporated many techniques. Applications include mark-making, loose brush strokes, drip paint methods, and impasto. Colors range from bold and bright to muted or monochromatic. The substrates can be a variety of canvas, wood panel, or archival paper. Surfaces can be characterized by textured, smooth, thick, layers, opaque, luminous, or a combination of all. The developed use of glazes and final finishes strengthen the quality.
Marsango’s work is currently represented by The Vault at 1930 art gallery in the historic San Marco area of Jacksonville, Florida and Sandra Morgan Interiors of Greenwich, Connecticut and Village Shops in Vero Beach. In addition, a few of Vickie’s paintings are currently on view at the newly opened Oodles design shop in Vero Beach.
Workshops in 2020 where she will be teaching include:
- Vero Beach Museum of Art – Vero Beach, FL
- Pacific Northwest Art School – Whidbey Island, WA
- Ah Haa School for the Arts – Telluride, CO
- Avondale Arts Center – Westerly, RI
- Rowayton Arts Center – Rowayton, CT
