PAINTING PUMPKINS
Painting Pumpkins in Oil
taught by Paulina Swietliczko
October 25th, 12pm-4pm
Tuition: $150/Optional Art supplies fee: $50
In this one-day workshop, participants will celebrate the colors of fall and the festive atmosphere of the harvest by painting autumn pumpkins in the alla prima style. Paulina will guide participants from start to finish and explain the wet-in-wet technique.
Topics will include brushwork, paint application, simplifying shapes, and softening edges. Each painting will be completed in a single session.
Materials are available for an additional fee if needed or bring your own based on the materials list below.
Paulina Swietliczko’s work is inspired by everyday life, people, objects and the landscape. Native to Poland, she holds an MFA in Painting and Lithography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland where she studied with Rajmund Ziemski and Jaroslaw Modzelewski. In 2012, she moved to Virginia from California, where she was a community college art instructor and an artist in residence at the Fresno Art Museum.
Currently, she lives in Roanoke where she paints, teaches art in her downtown studio and is involved in the local art scene. In the summer of 2024, Paulina was a Four Pillars artist in residence at Mount Gretna School of Art in Pennsylvania.
