ISS Painting Workshop
The Intensive Studies Seminar is a new kind of painting workshop that benefits all artists seeking growth. We focus on and enhance the content of your paintings, an area often overlooked by other art classes. If you are comfortable with your painting techniques and are looking to really add meaning and purpose to your work, the Intensive Studies Seminar was made for you.
A New Kind of Painting Workshop
ISS Schedule
Every day brings something new at ISS.
Take a look at the workshop schedule to see what you will be doing day-by-day.
The Intensive Studies Seminar is a unique art program, unlike any other painting workshop. It was developed by five well-known artists and teachers who felt there was a need for a class that emphasized content and design concepts rather than watercolor techniques. They designed this seminar to allow serious painters to work and develop a personal direction through instruction and constructive criticism from all five instructors in a stimulating, studio environment.
In addition, the instructors design new slide programs, new lectures, demonstrations, and design clinics to help students better understand how content and form are used to create expressive works of art. The objective of ISS is to help each student find a personal direction and improve their ability to express it. The instructors help each participant find his or her own direction through private critiques of the participant's work from home and reference to that work during individual studio instruction.
The Intensive Studies Seminar offers an ideal and unique format for creative growth in the inspiring setting of Taos, New Mexico.
Each Student Will Receive
- The opportunity to work with and learn from five professional artists and teachers.
- Studio critiques and individual instruction from five outstanding instructors who will help you define and develop your own personal style.
- Professional instruction, design clinics, constructive criticism, lectures, and slide shows.
- An opportunity to share and exchange ideas with equally serious and motivated students in a friendly and supportive environment.
Find Your Style
- Take the next step in your artistic development.
- Develop a more personal style and direction.
- Learn new concepts and approaches to design.
Slide Programs
The slide (and lecture) programs are an important and unique part of this seminar. Using examples of art from the past and present, instructors will explore everything from useful concepts in design and color, and contemporary movements in painting, to how present and market your work to galleries and exhibitions.