What if?
1/5/2026 - 1/26/202610:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
Location: Art Place Studios, 2015 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville, NC 28791
Event Description
Instructor: Mary Alice Braukman
Dates: 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26
Time: 10 am - 4 pm (1-hour Lunch Break)
Member: $540 Non-Member: $595
This workshop is designed to encourage you to take your art in new directions. The class will be working with a wide variety of mediums, colors, collage, and experimenting on different surfaces with various transfer techniques. Each student will be encouraged to find his or her unique personal direction, whether working abstractly or representational. Individual guidance and critiques will be offered daily, as well as a class critique on the final day.
This class is open to anyone who would like to explore mixed media techniques, layering, collage, transfers, and how to apply these into your paintings. If you feel you are stuck, let's hope this will open up new ideas. Ask yourself “what if” and begin exploring those ideas.
Creativity is bigger than you.
Curiosity is the basis of creativity.
If you have passion for art that’s you.
If you’ve lost it you can get it back with curiosity,
EVERYONE CAN BE CREATIVE … YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CREATIVE
-Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Supply List:
Brushes:
Note: (These are three transparent colors that I will show how you can make all your colors and never have mud. BUT - Bring any you like using. - how you can tell if the color is transparent: If you paint a color over a black line the opaques will cover it but if transparent you will see black line.)
Painting material:
Many of these items can be found at Walmart, The Dollar Store, Michaels, and Lowe's. Starving Artists carries all of these as well as Jerry’s Art Online.
Most important material:
COME WITH AN OPEN MIND. READY TO EXPLORE AND OPEN NEW DIRECTIONS IN YOUR WORK..WHAT IF?
GO WITH IT!
Any questions, feel free to call or text or email me.
Mary Alice Braukman - 727/418-3041 braukman@me.com
Artist Bio:
Braukman, a native Floridian, now makes her home in Pisgah Forest, NC.
She is a member of the Florida Watercolor Society and holds signature status in the National Watercolor Society. Mary Alice has a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education and Fine Arts from Florida State University. She continued graduate studies at the University of Colorado and Eckerd College in the Tampa Bay area. She is a past president of the Florida Watercolor Society and was director of the Kanuga Water-media Workshops for 15 years. Mary Alice was invited to be guest editor of the American Artist Magazine’s Special Issue: Experimental Approaches to Water-media and Watercolor in 2001. In 2022 she was one of three selected jurors of the National Watercolor Society International Open Exhibition and served in selecting those receiving their NWS signature status. As a painter Mary Alice’s primary focus is on texture and color. Her life experiences and everyday visions get filtered through her artistic eye and transformed into an abstract body of work. Her experiences come forth in a myriad of techniques - a pour of transparent colors or by layers of collage and brush strokes which she unearths the colors beneath bringing color and texture into her paintings. She believes a painter must paint the way he or she feels - they must paint in spite of themselves not the way you think you should paint. There is no one method that will guarantee success or acceptance in a show - it is not that simple. The painter paints because it is who they are - it is their journey.
Dates: 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26
Time: 10 am - 4 pm (1-hour Lunch Break)
Member: $540 Non-Member: $595
This workshop is designed to encourage you to take your art in new directions. The class will be working with a wide variety of mediums, colors, collage, and experimenting on different surfaces with various transfer techniques. Each student will be encouraged to find his or her unique personal direction, whether working abstractly or representational. Individual guidance and critiques will be offered daily, as well as a class critique on the final day.
This class is open to anyone who would like to explore mixed media techniques, layering, collage, transfers, and how to apply these into your paintings. If you feel you are stuck, let's hope this will open up new ideas. Ask yourself “what if” and begin exploring those ideas.
Creativity is bigger than you.
Curiosity is the basis of creativity.
If you have passion for art that’s you.
If you’ve lost it you can get it back with curiosity,
EVERYONE CAN BE CREATIVE … YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CREATIVE
-Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Supply List:
Brushes:
- I like using flat brushes: 1`”, 2”, 3”- or larger.
- Foam brushes or inexpensive ones for glue etc.
- Prefer Golden fluid acrylics and their heavy body ones, but I do use some Liquitex. Golden’s colors are best.
- Nichol Azo Gold or Quinacridone Orange or both
- Quinacridone Magenta, or Red, Phthalo Turquoise
- Black (gesso or paint)White (gesso or paint)
Note: (These are three transparent colors that I will show how you can make all your colors and never have mud. BUT - Bring any you like using. - how you can tell if the color is transparent: If you paint a color over a black line the opaques will cover it but if transparent you will see black line.)
Painting material:
- 1 (Two) Birchwood cradles 16” x 16” or Panels 16” x 16” Can use canvas if you prefer. I’m rough on them and I like the wooden panels or cradles. If you cannot find the16” ones - Then any square but not smaller then 10” x 10” or larger than 20” x 20”
- If you have an old painting you would like to re-work - bring them along. I love painting over old paintings and giving them new life. We will be doing collage in this class!
- Freezer Paper (grocery store) or palette paper - prefer you not use paper or plastic plates
- Scissors or X-acto or single edge razor blade
- Colored pencils/crayons - I prefer Stabilo pencils and crayons also like oil pastels (Many of these supplies i will have and you are welcome to try.)
- Gloss Fluid and Matt Fluid Mediums
- On loan: Gator Boards for support of your collage substrates
- Collage materials but the student may bring their own pieces.
- Black India ink (small container)
- Newspapers
- A magazine (Architectural Digest, Better Homes and Gardens, etc.)
- Rags to use for buffing and cleaning your brush
- Paper towels
- Scrapers (old credit cards, room keys, or and thing you use to scrape paint even shapers.)
- Sketch book one with paper that will take paint. I like the spiral ones - they will lay flat.
- Sand Paper (fine and medium)
- If you have a brayer, bring it.
- Masking tape - the blue 1 or 2”
- Shipping tape - transparent 2” wide or 3”
- Geli plate if you have one. I have 5 and we can share do not buy one.
Many of these items can be found at Walmart, The Dollar Store, Michaels, and Lowe's. Starving Artists carries all of these as well as Jerry’s Art Online.
Most important material:
COME WITH AN OPEN MIND. READY TO EXPLORE AND OPEN NEW DIRECTIONS IN YOUR WORK..WHAT IF?
GO WITH IT!
Any questions, feel free to call or text or email me.
Mary Alice Braukman - 727/418-3041 braukman@me.com
Artist Bio:
Braukman, a native Floridian, now makes her home in Pisgah Forest, NC.
She is a member of the Florida Watercolor Society and holds signature status in the National Watercolor Society. Mary Alice has a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education and Fine Arts from Florida State University. She continued graduate studies at the University of Colorado and Eckerd College in the Tampa Bay area. She is a past president of the Florida Watercolor Society and was director of the Kanuga Water-media Workshops for 15 years. Mary Alice was invited to be guest editor of the American Artist Magazine’s Special Issue: Experimental Approaches to Water-media and Watercolor in 2001. In 2022 she was one of three selected jurors of the National Watercolor Society International Open Exhibition and served in selecting those receiving their NWS signature status. As a painter Mary Alice’s primary focus is on texture and color. Her life experiences and everyday visions get filtered through her artistic eye and transformed into an abstract body of work. Her experiences come forth in a myriad of techniques - a pour of transparent colors or by layers of collage and brush strokes which she unearths the colors beneath bringing color and texture into her paintings. She believes a painter must paint the way he or she feels - they must paint in spite of themselves not the way you think you should paint. There is no one method that will guarantee success or acceptance in a show - it is not that simple. The painter paints because it is who they are - it is their journey.