Instructor: Pete Hocking
Wednesdays & Thursdays
October 21 - November 12
9am - 12pm 
4 weeks, 8 sessions

Includes open studio (no instruction):
M/T/F 9am-4pm
W/Th 1pm-4pm

This workshop is designed for people who want to paint, but feel like they’ve never been invited to the party. It’s also for people who’re experienced painters, but feel like they could use a refresher in the basics. Focusing on fundamentals of composition and content, materials and technique, and on color theory and color mixing, the workshop will present a range of contemporary painter’s work, offer in some demonstrations, provide resources, and support participants in making a series of small paintings. Together we will look at paintings, talk about painting, and make paintings. The workshop will focus on oil and acrylic painting, but all 2D media are welcome. 

Materials: This workshop requires only basic materials: a kit of twelve basic oil or acrylic colors, 5-10 small canvases or panels (8 x 10 inch or 12 x 12 inch are good), or instead of panels/canvas a pad of 11 x 14 Arches Oil Painting Paper will work. These are suggestions, and you’re welcome to work larger, with more of a range of paint colors, etc.

Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher, curator & writer on Cape Cod. His work is concerned with nature, place, poetics, and identity. He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy.  He taught part-time at RI School of Design from 1997- 2022. From 2003-2021 he was full-time faculty in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1992-2005). On Cape Cod he is represented by Philip Celeste Gallery in Provincetown.

Pete Hocking Studio
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