3-Day Painting Workshop with Michelle Held / “Luminous Birds”
Wednesday, January 28 – Friday, January 30, 2026
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
With an insatiable appetite for color, light, and texture, Michelle strives to inspire happiness, trigger your imagination, and make an emotional connection with the viewer. She believes evoking a feeling of light, space, and passion is key to any successful contemporary painting. Get ready to learn technique and form that you can apply to all your paintings.
Michelle will cover design, composition, values, and EDGES to make a dramatic luminous bird paintings! We will focus on accurate proportions, form, and surface planes. As portrait artists study the form, we will do that with birds. We then will study bird anatomy, gesture, and proportions with drawing and paint, ultimately we will be studying the light effects on the birds that you have chosen. This use of a grisaille underpainting is a great way to exaggerate movement as well as capture light and shadow into your paintings! Michelle will guide you on your path by helping you infuse heart and passion into your final masterpiece!
Minimum of 6 students, Maximum of 16 students
FEE: $550.00 for Booth Museum Members, $625.00 for not-yet-members
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