Painting with Acrylic and Gouache with Mike Hernandez
Workshop | Available
A strong understanding of natural color and lighting is an important asset to any painter. Among the challenges of outdoor painting, desert scenes tend to be some of the most difficult subjects to paint. A painter needs to also understand the dynamics of atmospheric perspective to know how to change the color of rocks and foliage as they move back into the landscape. Mike will share his methods for tackling simple and complex desert scenes. Through demos and lectures, he will show students how to address every aspect of their work, from value, composition design, and shape to color hierarchies, paint texture, brushwork, and more. This is a great workshop for anyone interested in painting and wanting to learn how to capture a rich sense of natural lighting and color into their artwork. Students can choose any medium to paint with—Mike will be painting in acrylic. mikehernandezart.com
Mike Hernandez
A native Angeleno, Mike Hernandez is a plein air painter skilled in gouache, oil and acrylic, who’s works have been featured in several on-line publications as well as galleries. His process began as a young child, painting still life images. Influenced by the likes of Edgar Payne, Sorolla and Franz Bischoff, Mike soon explored the foundations of color and light in the outdoors – striving to find the beauty in the ordinary. With a palette that resides at the crossroads between industrial and landscapes, he finds inspiration anywhere from the Eastern Sierra range to the muddy concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. Mike studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, graduating with a B.A. in 1998. Mike was a Production Designer and Art Director as well as a concept artist at Dreamworks Animation and worked on such films as Shrek, How to train your Dragon, Turbo, Penguins of Madagascar and many other films. Mike is also a member of a limited group of the finest painters in the US called PAPA as well as a nation-wide sought-after workshop instructor. His works can be found in several private collections around the world.