Exploring Acrylic Gouache with Suzette Lebenzon

This class is for anyone with or without acrylic gouache experience. If you took “Discovering Acrylic Gouache” with Suzette, this workshop is the ideal next step for continuing your exploration of this medium. But, if this is your first acrylic gouache adventure, fear not! The morning will begin with a module on the basics to get caught up. The class will have a slideshow to outline the process. Suzette will also demonstrate. 

Students will be guided through exercises to gain competence in Suzette’s techniques and methods of creating floral still lifes and landscape using acrylic gouache on paper. Dramatic effects can be made as the pigment allows light to bounce off the surface, intensifying the saturation of the color. This quick drying paint allows you to layer without muddying up the hues.

The results are surprisingly engaging. Methods translate well to watercolor and acrylic painting. Join us to take risks, and explore the wow of this under appreciated medium. Novice and master painters welcome. Be prepared to have fun.

Suzette will bring a bouquet to share as inspiration and a resource but, recommends each painter to bring a small jar or glass with 3-5 flowers to keep at their station.Also: A landscape reference photo will be provided. 

About the Instructor: Suzette Lebenzon

Suzette Lebenzon has painted since her childhood in Scituate, MA. She has kept a studio and shown in galleries most of her adult life. Her home and studio are in Wellfleet.

Suzette was a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council’s Unrestricted Artists’ Grants. In 2023, Suzette was inducted to the National Association of Women Artists, as a Signature Member. Her work has been curated into shows at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Scollay Square Gallery in Boston’s City Hall, and the Galatea Fine Art Gallery in SOWA.

She is represented by the  AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; and the BBLG Gallery in Smithtown, NY.

Materials List:

1. A variety of brushes like: Princeton Real Value Brush Set - 9153, Golden Taklon, Short Handle, Set of 6 -Item #:06223-9153 at Blick’s  ( bring your own assortment too!)
2. Your paint palette or paper palette OR: Masterson Sta-Wet Premier Palette, Item #03029-0000 at Blick’s 
3. Water container
4. paper towels
5. Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Board Pads, 11x14, 20 sheets smooth or Velum 
6. Holbein Acrylic Designer Gouache - Set of 12, 12 ml Tubes Item #:00811-1012 at Blick’s 
7. Small jar/glass with a few (3-5) flowers to paint