In this class participants will learn techniques of drawing, color mixing theory, use of different brushes, mark making with different brushes, use of different mediums to create a mixed media artwork with Instructor Mindy McClendon. Every participant will get to work on their own masterpiece and take it home at the end of the class.

Class Details:

Date: Saturday, May 4th

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Class minimum: 4*

Cost: $95 - all supplies included

*If minimum is not met, class will be canceled and registrants refunded. 

Mindy McClendon Bio 

Using complex color palettes, transparent layers of shapes, and a comfortable abundance of negative space, Mindy creates abstract mental landscapes on canvas.  “I think of them as individual thoughts. If a thought had a physical form, I wonder what it would look like, what characteristics it would have. My thoughts are fluid and ever-changing, but they’re often deeply rooted to memories or constructs set in place decades ago. Feelings and emotions don’t require words, but on what level would our thoughts exist if there was no language to describe them? What makes up a thought before the words are there to express it?”  Mindy is an artist living and painting in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. She moved to the area in 2005 after earning a Bachelor of Fine Art from Middle Tennessee State University. Using her skills as a graphic designer, Mindy freelanced for local businesses until 2019 when she decided to pursue painting as a career. Since this decision, her work has been displayed at the Emerald Coast Theater Company and included in three seasonal rotations at the Foster Gallery in Miramar Beach, Florida. A painting from her Collection of Thoughts series was awarded “People’s Choice” at the 2021 CAA Members’ Juried Show.