Flower Painting: Liberate Your Brushwork and Amplify Your Color
Would you like your flower painting to be more expressive, luscious, and energetic? And enjoy
the color and beauty of flowers in February? Join painter Amy Brnger for a two day workshop
devoted to florals in painting. Flowers are a great muse for exploring energy in brush strokes,
liberating color, and exploring how neutrals can actually increase the potency of the color on
your paint surface. Expand your notion about what flower painting can be. In this workshop, we
will be focusing on:
Liberating and limiting strokes
Creating short session paintings
Experimenting with color, while learning to mix with a limited palette
Using flowers to create an inviting composition
Each day, Amy will begin with a demonstration that shows her color mixing strategy using a
limited palette, some targeted exercises to warm up your mind and body, and then short session
paintings. Our final day will end at 3:00 pm in order to have a group presentation and
discussion of work.
We will break for lunch at 12:30 and participants can either bring their lunch or get a take out
lunch in North Hampton. I plan on a 45 minute break so that your painting time is maximized.
For more information or to register:
http://www.ogunquitartcolony.com/amy-brnger-2-day-workshop.html
2026 Acadia Landscape Painting Workshop June 22-24
Registration will open winter 2026. This will be my third plein air painting workshop on Mount Desert Island, hosted by the Gallery at Somes Sound, in Somesville, ME. To inquire, contact Tyra@galleryatsomessound.com.
2026 Providence Art Club 2 Day Workshop TBA July
Flower painting with Amy Brnger at Providence Art Club, Providence, RI. Dates to be finalized winter 2026.
2026 Plein Air Painting in Rockland, ME 8/10-14
Five days of plein air landscape painting with Amy Brnger. You’ll be exposed to the water, sky and rocks of Rockland, ME. August 10-14, 2026.
Registration will post soon!
For more information, contact Sally at https://cmaworkshops.org/rockland-workshops
2026 Confident color | composition | Brushstrokes 3 day workshop chatham, ma (9/29-10/1)
9/29-10/1/2026. 3 day painting workshop with Amy Brnger. Registration is open! For more information, contact the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA, or click here for registration info: https://www.capecodcreativearts.org/new-products/la5l22tlg48jenqpnjbfpb12c775yl
2026 Plein Air Landscape Workshop, Essex MA 10/31-11/1
Paint for two days with Amy in the beautiful northshore of Massachusetts Oct 31-Nov 1 2026. We will work with open fields and/or marshes and farms. It is a stunning place to paint. Amy will teach how she constructs her landscape paintings, blocks in imaging, organizes her color palette, and incorporates spontaneity and freedom into her strokes. Hosted by Slow River Studio in Topsfield, MA.
Email jess@slowriverstudio.com for registration information.
Sunflowers! Two Sessions Online Sept 16 + 23
Join Amy as she works live, using sunflowers images from her southern Maine garden, exploring the energy of single session paintingusing these magnificent blooms. Each session will hone in on how to describe the sunflower without getting bogged down in every petal. Learn to use saturated, rich color with taming neutrals. She will emphasize stroke energy, patience with building your paintings.
All workshop participants have continued access to all course materials and recordings. You can also take the live workshop but watch the recordings later.
Additionally, you have access to a private forum. Your paintings made during the workshop will be reviewed by Amy. You can also give and receive feedback from other participants. Optional but instructive!
FULL-Expressive Fall Views-Plein Air Painting
Expressive Fall Views, 2 day Plein Air Landscape Workshop with Amy Brnger. Hosted by Slow River Studio, Topsfield, MA.
Full—Exploring Window Views and Still Life-Full
Providence Art Club
Paint vibrant flowers and window views. Explore how to fully engage your painting surface by combining inside flower views with landscape scenes outside the window. Amy Demos in oil but all 2D painting and pastel mediums are welcome.
Garden Blooms and Loose Strokes I-full
Let’s paint what’s blooming in season! Amy Brnger will teach an introductory flower painting workshop using flowers from our southern Maine gardens. Participants will bring their own local blooms and favorite vase (if you don’t have a garden, we will also have flowers for you). Amy will also bring her garden flowers and vase and we will arrange blooms together and then get painting!
Bountiful Peonies Online workshop
Let's work on the big blooms! Garden peonies come in two general varieties: single and double blooms. We will tackle each form, one per session. Together we will examine how each bloom is formed, then we will make loose drawings and paintings of each shape. Amy demos in oil but all mediums are welcome. Live workshop participants can post their work to a private forum for feedback.
Plein Air Landscape Paint in Bar Harbor
Paint with Amy around Acadia National Park in June 2025. It's a great workshop for all, but if you are new to plein air painting, this is a super introduction to it. Three days of plein air painting in this spectacular location. Each day we will explore a new place. Hosted by The Gallery at Somes Sound.