Working in a Series with Kelley MacDonald

Working In a Series is one of the best ways to enhance your skills - no matter if you are a beginner or a more advanced painter. Kelley uses acrylics but students have used water mixable oils, pastels and watercolor to dive deep into a subject and become familiar and comfortable. What you will do is push boundaries and coax your creativity to make paintings that show many sides to your subject. Each week there is an inspirational slideshow that runs through class, giving students ideas on how to dig deep and look at their subject in multiple ways. This is a supportive class and Kelley’s experience in creating a series will enable you to hone your skills more and more each week. Join us and take your imagination for a ride!

About the Instructor: Kelley MacDonald

Kelley has been painting and making art for 40 years. She has won numerous awards and loves being a painting instructor.  She was a watercolor painter first, then an oil painter and now has found her joy in the acrylic medium.  Until 3 years ago she was strictly a representational painter, but discovered the world of Intuitive Abstracts and is enthusiastically exploring this exciting method every day.  Kelley loves to travel and paint plein air as well, and has painted in Holland, Canada, numerous times in Mexico as well as across the United States. She will be bringing plein air students to San Miguel de Allende, along with her friend and fellow artist Paula Villanova in February on a painting workshop.  An Art History major at Wheaton College, she fell in love with the actual making of art. Living presently in Providence RI,  she is an exhibiting member of the Providence Art Club and a devoted member of the North River Arts Society.