Renee Mueller Workshop: 13 – 22 May 2025
BIO – About Renee Mueller
Renee earned a BFA from the University of Michigan in Dance and Choreography. She danced professionally and was honored to teach dance at the University of Michigan’s Musical Theater and Theater Departments. After a beautiful career in the performing arts, Renee became a full-time working artist and has found the journey from dance to art incredibly inspiring, humbling, and remarkable.
Being a dancer gave her a unique perspective on the creative process, and she is passionate about teaching others how to step into the flow of creativity, embrace the beauty of their unique gifts, and unearth their style and voice as an artist.
She hopes everyone taking her classes walks away with a renewed feeling of confidence, new techniques, and, most importantly, that their creativity matters.
Renee lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband Marc, who continues to support all her creative dreams, and their beautiful daughter Olivia.
Overview of Renee Mueller Workshop 2025:
Transform your artistic approach to reflect how you see beauty in the world around you. During your stay, you will have time to immerse yourself in the natural beauty of France by stepping outside the studio to collect visual imagery as a “way in” to your art.
Take inspiration from the stunning landscape, medieval villages, lavender fields, and dramatic cliffs with your camera and sketchbook. Observe how light and shadow become beautiful dance partners with nature and can inspire beauty and drama in your art.
Back in the studio, you will tap into your sense of beauty and creativity as you examine the places and experiences that mark your heart and find a new way to capture them through painting, sketching, collage, and stitching.
Discover what makes your heart light up and bring those themes to your artwork. You will connect with your art-making on a deeper level when you’re mindful of your experiences, thoughts, memories, and the things that inspire you to create.
Techniques:
- Collecting Visual Inspiration with your camera, sketchbook, and a few art supplies.
- Color Travelogue and Lessons in Mixing Color
- Color Collage Stories
- Mini Inspiration Collage
- Expressive Florals
- Abstract Landscapes
- A series of miniature abstract landscape paintings inspired by the beauty of France.
- Tips on sketching on location to capture the essence of your subject
- Expressive Portraits with stitched florals on fabric
- Sweeping Charcoal & ink florals
- We will transform an ordinary sketchbook into an Art Book. One that is filled with a rich tapestry of ideas, contour drawings, botanical sketches, sketches of local architecture, color studies, painted flowers, and more.
NOTE:
Partners are welcome and are free to explore the various painting locations at their leisure. Local tips can be provided. Note that whilst at our accommodation property, activities include walks, communing with nature or the garden, swimming, relaxing or reading. The nearest town is 5 minutes by car.
*A non-refundable deposit of 1000€ Is required (unless cancelled by Perigord Retreats). Travel insurance is therefore recommended.
**IMPORTANT: Please wait until Renee Mueller workshop is confirmed before booking any flights.
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