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Birth your beautiful and mysterious artwork 
4-day Live Online Workshop with Julie Bernstein EngelmannFebruary 20-23, 2023 Held over Zoom This workshop gives you a powerful foundation for abstract painting. You will experience abstraction in a way where: 1. You can ease into it very naturally. 2. You love what you’re doing because it is a meaningful exploration for you – always interesting and endlessly varied. 3. You recognize the distinct uses of background, middle ground, and foreground, so you can make your abstract paintings as rich and deep as you like. 4. You understand how to bring your painting from beautiful mess to completion – by seeing what you love in the paint, then attending to the flow, and bringing it to life as a dimensional space. Step by step, you’ll be guided to enter the painting process naturally, use layers to develop a deep and luscious visual space, and weave into it inspired mark-making. You’ll learn to see the spirit in your painting and help it shine powerfully. A focus of the workshop is to find ease in bringing your mid-process “beautiful mess” to fulfilled completion. You’ll create two acrylic paintings that embody meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth & flow – qualities that lift an abstract painting from amateur to professional. Whether you’re a longtime artist or new to painting, you’ll gain discernment and an abundance of secrets to turn inspiration into soul-satisfying abstract paintings. 
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Acrylic | All levels Inspired Abstract 4-day Live Online Workshop February 20-23, 2023 (Mon-Thur) Time: 10:00 am-3:30 pm AZ/PDT (with lunch break) Held over Zoom $420 About the online workshop: Julie will teach live via Zoom using demonstration, discussion, and plenty of individual attention. You’ll post photos of your work-in-progress for enlightening feedback. The relatively short daily in-class hours allow flexible painting time outside of class for those who wish. Workshop slides and handouts are downloadable through an online class forum. Julie will monitor the forum before, during, and two weeks after the workshop to answer questions and provide follow-up comments. Questions? Email Julie. MATERIALS LIST:
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Julie Bernstein Engelmann creates abstract art that speaks to the heart and spirit. Her luscious acrylic paintings have won many awards and were featured in a retrospective solo exhibition, Being Spirit, at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. Educated on both coasts, Julie holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Barnard College (summa cum laude) in New York City, where she studied with Milton Resnick, first-generation Abstract Expressionist.
Julie has been teaching abstract painting since 2003, currently on the faculty of the Sedona Arts Center School of the Arts. She is passionate about teaching artists how to understand their mid-process “beautiful mess” and bring it to life through three vital qualities of powerful abstract painting: meaning, naturalness, and spatial depth & flow. In addition, Julie shares valuable expertise in color mixing to enhance visual depth. See Julie's art, CV, and sign up for her Beauty & Spirit Note at www.julieengelmann.com |
"I am having a great time with your techniques — it is like opening a tap, ideas just keep flowing. Thank you so much for the training and inspiration!"
"I absolutely loved Julie’s workshop. I learned so much that I will revisit time and again on all of my future paintings. I’m thankful for all of the resources she provided and the sharing of her rich experience. Julie is a gifted teacher in bringing out the kid, heart and spirit of a person and a group. She sees, simultaneously, the beauty and the areas for improvement in a huge range of works, styles and experience levels. The critiques of my work and of my fellow students were incredibly helpful. I can’t put into words how magical this experience was for me and it seems for the others as well. And I love the paintings I created in her workshop. I look forward to my next workshop and/or mentoring with Julie, and feel like it’s my great good fortune to have had this special experience! Thank you!" "Julie is fun, sweet, kind, enthusiastic, and a great teacher! She has the ability to help us see our artwork with fresh eyes looking for the good instead of focussing on the bad. It was a wonderful experience and I will take another class with her one of these days!" "Very encouraging style; even her critiques were uplifting rather than downcasting." "Julie is an excellent instructor. Her feedback was honest and sought after by everyone in the class. Her style of teaching resonated with me and I was able to walk out of the class with all of my goals met. Her passion for what she is doing is absolutely inspirational!" "I love Julie: Her art, her teaching style, and as a human being. She always makes a workshop a delightful experience." "I had been hoping to get some insight into painting abstractions, and possibly learn to 'free up' my style. Julie provided both, and so much more. Not only did she provide ways to 'tap into' and express our own individual uniqueness, she also shared the keys to making good abstractions, including color theory and mixing, composition, layering techniques, and other fundamentals of art. I learned so much! Her teaching style and personality gave us students the confidence to move forward, and her critiques were brilliant as she shared her experience about just what we needed to bring our paintings 'over the top.' I would take other classes from her and I recommend her highly." "Julie was fantastic! I so appreciated her patience and kindness." "Your art class was such a blast! It exceeded my expectations in every way!" |
Abstract Painting Workshop for Your Artist GroupYou don't have to wait. Schedule an abstract painting workshop for your artist group or a few artist friends. This could be a 1-, 2-, or 3-day creative experience. The workshop can be held live over Zoom - or invite me to teach at your location - or come to gorgeous Sedona, Arizona. Start by emailing me your interest and we'll go from there. |
"Julie - what can I say! you were great! you did everything one could expect from a work shop: good demo showing your step by step technique, wonderful personal contact & critiques, sharing completed works & the feelings one can get from the paint colors & shapes - AND THE WONDERFUL HANDOUT - I enjoyed it immensely as I am sure everyone did - Thank you so much - sincerely,"
- Patti Giordano, artist and Programs & Classes Coordinator, East Suburban Artists League, Murrysville, PA
"Thank you for such a fun workshop! As you already know, I really enjoyed myself. Your ability in critiquing is outstanding. You are gifted in tuning into the artist and the painting. It is very impressive." - Marva Harvey, artist and Program Coordinator, Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona, Tucson, AZ
"I told you how beneficial the demo was. I neglected to say how much I enjoyed the lecture portion of your presentation and found the comparisons between a wow painting and a not so wow one particularly valuable. I could instantly see the difference in the paintings." - Carolyn Starbuck, Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona, Tucson, AZ
"As an abstract experimental artist stubbornly committed to authenticity, I found Julie Bernstein Engelmann's workshop to be one of the best I have attended. I attend workshops to expand my artistic perspective, not to copy techniques. I want to explore my own potential to express that which is unique to me. Julie's methods help me do that.
"Julie is like a good shaman, guiding you to your own truth. She has developed a style of teaching that frees the student to be more. The word 'education' comes from the Latin 'educare' which means 'to lead out.' In that classical sense, Julie is an educator. Her methods activate the creative center of the brain. I am not fast, but thoughtful, and the pace of Julie's teaching gave me time to relate, absorb and apply what I was learning." - Louisa Aragona-King, El Valle Artists Association, Cottonwood, AZ
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