Workshops 2026

Finding Your Focus

The greatest challenge in a painting is finding your focus and ensuring that you support that idea or image fully as you work. In four 3-hour sessions, you will be given instruction in how to choose a focal point, how to compose around it and how to maintain that focus as you work. This approach is what I follow and what gives me the confidence to paint quickly. I hope by sharing my approach I can help you succeed at what you'd like to do. I will set up a still life for the class session and recommend that you work from that (and will require it for at least one of our paintings!) but you can also bring your own object or resource to work from if you'd like.

You can work in any medium you like! The ideas that we need to think about apply to whatever type of paint you are using. You will have an hour of instruction and two hours to paint and work on painting assignments. There will be ample time for one-on-one and group critique of work.

Workshop 1: Saturdays February 7, 14, 21, 28 2 - 5 pm
location: Arts Umbrella, 7330 NE Bothell Way, Kenmore WA 98028
price $325 for the 4 weeks

Workshop 2: Wednesdays, March 4, 11, 18, 25 10 am - 1 pm
location: Studio at Bassetti's Crooked Arbor, 18512 NE 165th Street, Woodinville WA 98072
price $325 for the 4 weeks

Classes will be limited to 9 students

To sign up or if you have questions, please email me at judygilbert.art@gmail.com .