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• August Monthly Member Workshop

  • When
    August 08, 2026
  •  
    9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    WASH - 1601 West Alabama at Mandell, Houston, TX 77006
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  Monthly Member Workshop

  Richard Williams

  "Cappuccino Caricatures"

  
  

  Saturday, August 8

  9:30 am - 3:00 pm

  
  

  Basic Members $50

  Premium Members $35

  Gold Members $25

  Student Members $25

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Participants will explore a variety of ways to use instant coffee as an actual art medium.

  1) Cappuccino Calligraphy. Exploring brushstrokes and learning to vary the values within the medium.

  2) Using a Chianti Bottle, participants will be led through a lesson on gradations, washes, and flat washes.

  3) Participant will draw a contour self-portrait from their phones, adding a second image incorporated into the self-portrait. 

  4) A) Using cardboard and brown paper, the participant will create an organized composition to be used for a mixed media.

  5) Lunch

  6) Discussion on the principles of Design and how to use them in mixed media.

  7) B) The participant will create a mixed media composition with a focus on a chiaroscuro study.

  8) Critique and discuss to close with.
  

  
  

  The instructor will bring; 16 oz. of freeze-dry coffee. Cardboard Scraps, 12 oz. of Gesso. An assortment of brushes, salt. Brown paper.

  Participants will need to bring;

  1) an assortment of watercolor brushes.

  2) A simple watercolor set. Water container.

  3) An assortment of paper and collage material.

  4) Ebony pencils, erasers, and a pencil sharpener.

  5) Only if they have them already: Prisma pencil, watercolor pencil, conte, markers.

  
  

  
  

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