Live painting /workshop inquiries
Available to travel out of state
Interested in me traveling to your state to live paint, sell my work at an event, or teach a drawing or painting workshop? Please email directly kristen@kristenmargiotta.com
My Teaching Philosophy
It's important to me that students of all skill levels learn the principles of art as well as time honored techniques, through practice and application. Students gain an understanding of these principles and techniques through practice and working along side me during our lessons/workshops.
The importance of an arts education is not just to make art, but it helps students to gain problem solving and critical thinking skills, gain self confidence, and value in one’s self. Art helps students to cultivate skills that can be applied to other areas of study as well as their everyday lives. And Art makes life beautiful and better!
I begin all students with life drawing, where they will learn foundation drawing/sketching, and how to "see", just like a musician is learning to train their ears to "hear". I train my students to see, which helps them to draw and paint with great accuracy. After sketching, we move into learning about value and shading, and how to render forms three dimensionally. If students are interested in color and/or painting, we proceed into dry color media where students will learn color theory and mixing, and then proceed into painting. It's the "crawl, walk, run" model that I follow with my teaching style with great success. Students that have continued with me for years, we explore subject matters and materials of their choice.
Students receive the benefit of all of my knowledge of art materials, techniques, as well as art history, all within a safe and comfortable working environment.
