PSC sponsored workshops

Susan Kuznitsky Workshops 2026

Join award-winning artist Susan Kuznitsky for a 1-Day Landscape and/or a 2-Day Portrait/Figure in a Scene workshop. 

No matter the season or the subject, or whether you are a landscape painter or figurative painter you will benefit from these workshops. 

We will be focusing on different aspects of color as well as different approaches to the underpainting. Susan will demonstrate a variety of subjects. 

You will have the option to paint along from the same image or work from your own reference. There will be time for personal and constructive feedback during the course. 

These classes are appropriate for all levels of skill. 

1-Day Landscape Workshop March 17, 2026

We will focus on:

  • Creating lyrical landscape paintings
  • Chroma – how to use the power of strong color without overdoing it.
  • Creating distance or atmospheric perspective
  • Texture and mark making
  • Lost and found edges

Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Workshop Location: Center for the Arts Evergreen Community Room • 31880 Rocky Village Drive • Evergreen, CO 80439

$150 for PSC Members

$200 for Non-Members

Maximum 16 students

2-Day: Portrait/Figure in a Scene Workshop March 18-19, 2026

Day 1: Portrait/Figure

We will focus on:

  • Creating a likeness
  • Drawing tips – line, rhythm, negative shapes
  • Color and Relativity – how color is influenced by the color around it.

Day 2- Figure in a Scene

We will focus on:

  • Telling a story in your painting
  • Working from photos – what to leave in and what to leave out
  • Dappled light
  • Composition
  • Painting ‘white’ – how to create colorful whites in your paintings.

Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Workshop Location: Center for the Arts Evergreen Community Room • 31880 Rocky Village Drive • Evergreen, CO 80439

$275 for Members

$325 for Non-Members

Maximum 16 students

Register & Pay Now for One or Both Workshops
Tony Allain 3-day workshop

Breaking Free: Mood and Atmosphere

3 day workshop with Tony Allain

 in Grand Junction, CO

June 7, 8, 9, 2026

 Open only to PSC members

Tony’s workshop is now fully enrolled. You are welcome to put your name on the wait-list.

The quest for perfection can bring with it fear of making mistakes and can result in a style which can seem inhibited. My workshops will inspire you to fall in love with colour and light! We will experiment and activate the potential of complementary, harmonious and tertiary colours that will lift our work to another exciting level. We will look at ways of how to unlock your confidence and imagination in your own creativity. I’ll share some tips and methods drawn from my own way of working, where colour and light plays a central and passionate part of my personal artistic practice.

Artists use colour, values to express themselves and aim to make you feel something when you look at it. In this demonstration we will concentrate on freedom and spontaneity to add elements of semi abstraction but still keep association with reality. If you ever wanted to bring a looser and more painterly feel to your work loaded with juicy colour and flooded with light? Join me and I will share some of my working methods concentrating on painting the landscape that delight you and excite the viewer. Using our reference material and sketches we can bring some fresh colour and a more painterly feel to your work our aim is to break free from the restraints of perfection and give ourselves permission to capture the essence of the subject in an intuitive way with the freedom of “brushwork” that has its roots in the style of alla prima giving a lively and vigorous mark that is instrumental in expressing mood and atmosphere.

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