Workshop | The Power of Black Oil Paint

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Join Resident Artist Nickki Lewis-Parker for a workshop in which you will explore how to incorporate black into your own pieces! The class will begin with the history black oil paints, their misconceptions in oil painting, followed by an in-depth look at different black hues — Mars Black, Ivory Black, Lamp Black, and Cold Black — and choosing when to use each.

The class also covers creating backgrounds in representational, abstract, and “in-between” styles, allowing for a wide range of creative expression. Finally, you’ll engage in guided exploration using black oil paint, with the instructor drawing on her extensive experience to address your unique ideas and questions and pitfalls of modifying black oil paints.

What to Bring:

• Your own canvas and painting concept/idea

• A selection of brushes suitable for your piece

• Black oil paints (recommended: Mars Black, Ivory Black, Lamp Black, Cold Black and/Or any black pigment you prefer

• Additional colors you plan to use in your work

• Your preferred painting medium

Instructor Biography

Nickki Lewis-Parker

Nickki is a new artist, who despite a lifelong dream of being an Engineer, during her last year and a half in college was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Her first symptom being vision lost in her left eye for nearly a year, although she regained her sight, the growing list of symptoms would make her bed bound for a few years thereafter. As destructive and world-ending at the time, this has come to be a gift, at times. With the death of her Grandmother during the pandemic, a mysterious yearning to create something in hopes of lessening her mother’s grief washed over her, thus she created her first painting.In the two and a half years since, Nickki has attended classes at Boca Raton Museum of Art School and became an Affiliate Artist at Arts Warehouse. During this short timespan, she has met head-on the differences in the world and visual perspectives she lived without for over three decades. It has been an uncomfortable walk towards a new unfounded nor dreamt vision of her life but as well as turmoil of finding praise and pride again after over a decade worth of battling her own body for autonomy. Her hopes are to grow without restrain and creatively be aloud in her experimentation, no longer a prisoner to what Multiple Sclerosis took from her.As a late bloomer to art and viewing the world in a new whole perspective, 32-years of this gift has been lost to me, it has also afforded me the freedom to dive deeper. Multiple Sclerosis gave me the gift of sensitive sight and the realization of how much disability and intimacy are so mutually exclusive in media all around us. Whilst, the historic male gaze presented women in a shallow, one dimensional constraint of limits. My lens and greater hope is showcasing the multitudes of disabilities and the courageous fight to find their sexuality and space despite the constant infantilization of disabled folks. For now it is the warmth and culture of BDSM through one disabled woman’s eye. See the world through the eyes of a woman gazing into the juxtaposition of masculinity and femininity, where men and women are equal entertainment and free from all expectations.

** Please note, Refunds will be processed only if requested 72+ hours prior to scheduled workshop date/time. No refund will be given if requested less than seventy two (72) hours until scheduled workshop time for any reason. Only one ticket transfer will be allowed per person per workshop type, and will only occur if requested outside of the 72 hour mark of the registered workshop. To request a refund and cancel your ticket, please call 561-330-9614**

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