Capturing Radiant Light in Your Paintings
Master Artist Workshop in Oil or Acrylic
Sponsored by The Huntsville Museum of Art
Master your ability to capture radiance in your paintings and join South Carolina artist Michael Story for this three-day landscape painting workshop. Michael will explain and demonstrate the fundamentals of building radiant color by applying complementary and analogous color combinations. We will also use effective underpainting and layering of color in trees, grasses, sky, and water to simulate light and create interest and authenticity in our subject matter. The workshop begins with an I-Pad step-by-step presentation showing a progression of Michael’s painting techniques from start to finish. Students begin their paintings with an initial charcoal drawing, followed by a color wash applied over the image. Starting with rich shadow colors, you’ll begin blocking in your painting, then progressing dark to light to completion. Building final layers of color and avoiding muddy mixtures, you’ll achieve fresh, bright, radiant color while capturing depth and drama to your work. For more information, visit michaelstory.com.
Michael Story earned a BFA in Fine Art from the University of South Carolina in 1975. He later traveled to New York, studying pastel and oil painting under internationally renowned artist, Daniel Greene. Today, Story is an award-winning artist and member of Oil Painters of America, Pastel Society of America, Southeastern Pastel Society, North and South Carolina Pastel Societies, National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society and the Allied Artists of America. He guest lectures, juries art shows and regularly teaches oil, acrylic and pastel painting throughout the United States.
Michael has conducted workshops at such prestigious art centers as Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL, Hudson River Valley Workshops in Greenville, NY, John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC, Winslow Art Center in Bainbridge Island, WA, Art of the Carolina’s in Raleigh, NC, Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, WI, and Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, FL. Students also travel from around the country to attend his two-day painting classes in his Lexington, SC studio. Michael has work showcased in the Bush Presidential Library in Houston, Texas, and his paintings have been reproduced by major publishers such as Canadian Art Prints of British Columbia and distributed worldwide.
When:
Thursday thru Saturday, September 11-13, 2025 from 9 am - 4 pm
Where:
Huntsville Museum of Art
300 Church Street, SW
Huntsville, AL 35801
To sign up, or for more information, call 256-535-6372 or email: lsmith@hsvmuseum.org.
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Michael Story Workshops
116 Brook Trout Court
Lexington, SC 29072
803-356-4268