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This exciting, new course invites you into a technique born from Olya Losina’s immersive Art Theater experience, an innovative fusion of performance and visual art that brought audiences to the edge of their seats.
At Olya's former art center in San Diego, California, Olya staged six unforgettable painting performances in a transformed studio-turned-amphitheater. Each night featured a different floral arrangement set in a distinct visual style—from dazzling color explosions and romantic elegance to baroque opulence and minimalist white-on-white. Accompanied by music chosen to match each atmosphere (Italian opera, French chanson, American jazz), artists created live, oversized paintings in front of a live audience.
In this course, you’ll get to experience one of the signature techniques from those Art Theater nights: a dynamic combination of painting and drawing. Working from observation, you’ll begin by blocking in the floral arrangement with latex house paint and a large flat brush. Then, while the paint is still wet, you’ll use a skewer, palette knife, or similar tool to draw into the paint, scratching expressive lines that define the bouquet with a loose, energetic, sketch-like quality.
This process is fast-paced and freeing. You’ll work across multiple canvases from the same arrangement to sharpen your eye, build confidence, and develop rhythm. You’ll be encouraged to experiment with canvas size, controlling the intensity and speed of your strokes - learning to loosen up, trust your hand, and develop a bold, gestural approach.
What you will learn:
This is a mind-expanding technique for anyone curious about how to combine painting and drawing.
Get inspired! You'll do similar projects in class.
Frequently Asked Questions
All of our classes are online via Zoom. Our instructors and our students have fallen in love with the online format. Our students are getting incredible results from our online sessions: students attend more classes, make more art, are getting better faster, and still enjoy the benefits of in-person lessons like personalized feedback and a wonderful community, all from the comfort of their home.
Plus, no more traffic, lugging supplies back and forth, or trying to find parking. And now there are recordings of every session!
All live courses come with recordings unless otherwise specified. If you miss a class, you'll be able to catch up by means of the recordings. If you bought the individual course, you'll have unlimited access to recordings for a year.
If you're a member, you have unlimited access to our full recording library as long as you're an active member.
All live courses come with recordings unless otherwise specified. If you miss a class, you'll be able to catch up by means of the recordings. If you bought the individual course, you'll have unlimited access to recordings for life! This is the only course we offer where your access to recordings never expire.
If you're a member, you have unlimited access to our full recording library as long as you're an active member.
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