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Layering with Oil: The Art of the Glaze and Color

Pam McDonnell

$475.00
$475.00
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All Levels

Layering with Oil: The Art of the Glaze and Color

Pam McDonnell

$475.00
$475.00
Sale Sold Out

Layering with Oil is a one-week outdoor intensive, April 19–23, three hours each day. Each student builds one small oil painting in thin, transparent layers, adding one layer a day until it’s finished on Friday.

Starting with underpainting to work out light and shadow, students will build color daily in additional glazes. They’ll learn to thin and mix a glaze, use a fast-drying medium, wipe paint back to let light through, and see how each color changes depending on what’s under it.

Glazing teaches a rhythm of working, waiting and coming back with fresh eyes and gives painters a new way to use oil that they can carry into their own work

No oil painting experience is needed, just some comfort with drawing simple shapes. Beginners get a step-by-step way into oil, and experienced painters who haven’t tried glazing will find it changes how they handle color.

Starts Mon, Apr 19, 2027 - five day class
Class Dates: April 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
1 PM - 4 PM
1 PM - 4 PM
680 Oakleaf Office Lane Memphis, TN 38117
Materials Included: All Supplies Included
Register by: April 12, 2027
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(901) 625-5323
info@shapeshifterartschool.com

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Pam McDonnell
About the Instructor

Pam McDonnell

Pam McDonnell was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1969 and has resided in Memphis, Tennessee since 1996. Her alma mater is the University of Memphis where she completed her BFA in 2005 and her MFA in 2023. She uses sculpture, painting and hand-built stoneware to tell the story of “the body as a container” for the psychic products we develop. Her work uses religious tropes and language to highlight the sacred nature of the psyche and the process by which trauma is alchemized into joy.

She grounds her research in theories developed by depth psychologist Carl Jung and the many post-Jungian analysts who have expanded on his original idea “that the psyche speaks to us through symbol, story and myth.” She has been exhibiting her work in the Memphis area since 2014 and has pieces in the public collections of West Cancer Center, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Church Health Center and Iberia Bank.

She has volunteered her time to serve on the board of ArtsMemphis and has also served in various capacities on committees within the community to support and further the arts in Memphis. Pam is a co-founder and director of Shapeshifter Art School and Gallery. Visit her work at www.pam-mcdonnell.com