Painting Flowers in Oil: Alive with Color, Paint and Passion!
with Pat Fiorello
ALL LEVELS
April 24—25, 2020
Friday—Saturday, 10 AM—4 PM
Cost: $300
Learn to paint flowers in oil directly with a loose and fresh approach. Pat will share a simple approach to painting flowers using a base of transparent paints followed by opaque paints. We’ll cover how to simplify flower shapes, depict form thru observation of light and shadow patterns, mix color and add expressive brushwork to your paintings. On Day One, we'll paint together with photo supplied by the instructor to concentrate on technique. Then you will work from your own fresh flower set-ups on day two.
Artist Bio & Statement
Pat Fiorello is a professional artist and popular art instructor known for her impressionistic landscapes and elegant floral paintings in both oil and watercolor.
Inspired to make the expression of beauty a higher priority in her life, in 2002, she left a successful 20-year career as a Marketing Vice President with major corporations including The Coca-Cola Company, and made a dramatic life change to become a full-time artist. “I was driven by a desire to create beautiful things,” she says. “Through my paintings, I hope to inspire in people a deeper awareness and appreciation of the beauty around us. Pat’s Italian family name “Fiorello” means “one who lives near a wall of flowers,” so she seemed destined to have a passion for the romantic landscapes and exquisite flowers that she captures in her paintings. Based in Atlanta, she teaches in the United States, and has led 17 painting workshops in Italy, France, Spain the Caribbean and New Zealand. In 2015, Pat taught at Monet’s Garden in Giverny France. While there she won First Prize in the annual plein air painting competition and was invited back by the Mayor to exhibit her work at the “Laureate de la Fete de la Peinture” exposition in France.
Pat has studied with noted artists including mentor Marilyn Simandle, Robert Johnson, Betty Carr, Mel Stabin and Charles Reid. A Signature Member of the Georgia Watercolor Society, she has served as President of the organization and Chairman of the Atlanta Artist Center. Pat’s award winning paintings have been in over 75-juried shows and more than 20 one-woman exhibit. Her work has appeared in the book Splash 11, The Best of Watercolor, published by North Light Books. She is author of the book, “Bella Italia, Italy Through the Eyes of an Artist” published in 2013.
Pat’s paintings hang in private collections across the country and internationally.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The heart and focus of my art is to capture the essence of beautiful places and things and to express them in a beautiful, elegant way. Whether painting in watercolor or oil, my emphasis is the same: to create a soft, impressionistic feeling that draws viewers in. I select subjects—classic still life, elegant flowers and romantic landscapes-- that excite and inspire me to create a work of art--an illusion of light and depth, done in luminous, rich color with expressive painterly brushwork. I often include man-made objects or architectural elements as an intentional contrast to the flow and rhythm of the more predominant softer, natural shapes.
For me, the process of creating a painting is magical. I like to work with a direct alla primaapproach in response to my observations and impressions of the subject and the setting. But, as an artist, knowing how to place the right shapes, colors, values and edges of paint allows me to go further, to create an illusion of these real three-dimensional objects or scenes on a two-dimensional surface, and in doing so, evoke in the viewer a mood, an emotion or a sense of place or time, and, most of all, an awareness and appreciation of beauty.
My goal is to create art that instills joy and uplifts spirits through the timeless beauty of art and nature.
Inspired to make the expression of beauty a higher priority in her life, in 2002, she left a successful 20-year career as a Marketing Vice President with major corporations including The Coca-Cola Company, and made a dramatic life change to become a full-time artist. “I was driven by a desire to create beautiful things,” she says. “Through my paintings, I hope to inspire in people a deeper awareness and appreciation of the beauty around us. Pat’s Italian family name “Fiorello” means “one who lives near a wall of flowers,” so she seemed destined to have a passion for the romantic landscapes and exquisite flowers that she captures in her paintings. Based in Atlanta, she teaches in the United States, and has led 17 painting workshops in Italy, France, Spain the Caribbean and New Zealand. In 2015, Pat taught at Monet’s Garden in Giverny France. While there she won First Prize in the annual plein air painting competition and was invited back by the Mayor to exhibit her work at the “Laureate de la Fete de la Peinture” exposition in France.
Pat has studied with noted artists including mentor Marilyn Simandle, Robert Johnson, Betty Carr, Mel Stabin and Charles Reid. A Signature Member of the Georgia Watercolor Society, she has served as President of the organization and Chairman of the Atlanta Artist Center. Pat’s award winning paintings have been in over 75-juried shows and more than 20 one-woman exhibit. Her work has appeared in the book Splash 11, The Best of Watercolor, published by North Light Books. She is author of the book, “Bella Italia, Italy Through the Eyes of an Artist” published in 2013.
Pat’s paintings hang in private collections across the country and internationally.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The heart and focus of my art is to capture the essence of beautiful places and things and to express them in a beautiful, elegant way. Whether painting in watercolor or oil, my emphasis is the same: to create a soft, impressionistic feeling that draws viewers in. I select subjects—classic still life, elegant flowers and romantic landscapes-- that excite and inspire me to create a work of art--an illusion of light and depth, done in luminous, rich color with expressive painterly brushwork. I often include man-made objects or architectural elements as an intentional contrast to the flow and rhythm of the more predominant softer, natural shapes.
For me, the process of creating a painting is magical. I like to work with a direct alla primaapproach in response to my observations and impressions of the subject and the setting. But, as an artist, knowing how to place the right shapes, colors, values and edges of paint allows me to go further, to create an illusion of these real three-dimensional objects or scenes on a two-dimensional surface, and in doing so, evoke in the viewer a mood, an emotion or a sense of place or time, and, most of all, an awareness and appreciation of beauty.
My goal is to create art that instills joy and uplifts spirits through the timeless beauty of art and nature.