Workshop Report: Loosen Up & Get Painterly with Patti Mollica

Seventeen students filled our studio for a week of learning from one of our most popular instructors, Patti Mollica. Patti guided them through a variety of timed and structured exercises – including one which limited their brush strokes – to study both color and value in acrylic and oil paints.

As always, we’ll share a few of the images we captured here on our blog, but encourage you to also check out the full gallery on our Facebook page. You can also scroll back in our Instagram feed to see what we captured during the class and watch the video in our Facebook Video Library.


Workshop Report: Watercolor from Within with Barbara Nechis


While watercolorist Barbara Nechis now visits us all the way from wine country in California. She used to be based out of upstate New York and has been teaching with the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops since close to the founding of the school in the mid-1980s.

As always, we’ll share a few of the images we captured here on our blog, but encourage you to also check out the full gallery on our Facebook page. You can also scroll back in our Instagram feed to see what we captured during the class and watch the video in our Facebook Video Library.