Workshops

Online Workshops

Color with Sensitivity: Digging Deeper, Online with Winslow Art Center
Date: Wednesdays, August 20-September 3, 2025
Times: 9:00-11:30 AM Pacific Time, 11:00 AM-1:30 PM Central Time, 12:00-2:30 PM Eastern Time, 5:00-7:30 PM London Time
Price: $225.00
Description: Color is fundamental to any kind of painting, but it is also one of the most complex, challenging, and personal aspects. This is a continuation of Seeing and Mixing Color With Sensitivity Part One, but all experienced painters are welcomed to join regardless of their participation in the last class. During this 3 session class, we will develop our skills in perceiving and using color with sensitivity. Moving beyond fundamentals, we will do a series of exercises to challenge your use and manipulation of color. We will focus on identifying and painting subtle color relationships, creating an illusion of light and surface quality, working within limited value ranges, and ways to deviate from observed color. These short challenges should strengthen and expand the ways you use color in your personal work. There will be demos, presentations, feedback on individual work, and plenty of time for questions. You will be encouraged to partake in some shorter exercises during class and work on the longer projects outside of class for review the following week. This class is open to experienced acrylic or oil painters.


In Person Workshops and Classes:

Working Out: Exercises for Observational Painters at The Bascom in Highlands, NC
Dates: 7/30 - 8/1/2025, 10am - 4pm
Price: $500
Description: Both seeing and manipulating paint are skills that can be strengthened like muscles. This class focuses on developing perceptual and tactile painting abilities through a series of exercises or “painting challenges” based on direct observation and still-life setups. Specific exercises target skillsets such as color, composition/design, and paint application. Some exercises reinforce familiar techniques, while others challenge participants to step out of their comfort zones. Group critiques help identify and enhance the unique qualities that make each artist’s work authentic. This class is designed for individuals with previous painting experience and an understanding of fundamentals who are looking to advance their skills. Both acrylic and oil painters are welcome, with demonstrations provided in both mediums.


Online Technique Takeaway Recordings

Plein Air Strategies at Night- Online Class Recording with Winslow Art Center
Price: $40.00 for up to 60 days
Description: During this 1.5 hour presentation and demo, Ben Hamburger will discuss the challenging but exciting practice of painting on-site, en plein air at night time. He will go over his set up and equipment, provide some practical tips for painting nocturnally, and share a demonstration of his plein air nocturne painting process. There will be ample time for questions.

The Power of Neutrals Online Class Recording with Winslow Art Center
Price: $40.00 for up to 60 days
Description: Lots of people are worried about mixing mud, but when used well, a range of “muddy colors” not only make your saturated colors sing, but can enhance and enliven a painting. Also, most of the things we see are relatively neutral, so as a representational painter, the more you understand about mixing them, the better you will get at painting what you see with sensitivity. During this 1.5 hour Technique Takeaway, artist Ben Hamburger will demonstrate and discuss how he mixes and uses neutral colors in his work to add depth, variety, and mood. Though no feedback on student work will be provided, suggested exercises will be provided to help you mix rich neutral colors.