Jesse Reno Workshop: Summer 2026
Join us for a workshop taught by Jesse Reno, hosted by LYNN HANSON GALLERY. Jesse will be teaching at ArtWorks in Edmonds again, for three days in August. Edmonds is a charming community by the water, with accommodations and restaurants within walking distance. There is plenty of parking in the ArtWorks parking lot.
Dates: August 29-31, 2026
Price: $650
Details:
Dates: August 29-31, 2026
- Saturday August 29, 11 am-4 pm
- Sunday August 30, 11 am-4 pm
- Monday August 31, 11 am-3 pm
Price: $650
Details:
- Reserve your spot with a $200 deposit -- non-refundable.
- Balance of workshop fees ($450) due Friday July 31 -- non-refundable.
- Materials fee of $25 payable to instructor on the first day.
Registration
What to Bring
All you need to bring is a few brushes; old and worn are best but anything will work. This is about experimenting with what you don't think will work.
For your $25 material fee, the instructor will provide non-toxic acrylic paint primary colors, black colored pencils as marking tools, oil pastels for accent colors and marking, and heavy paper as a surface, so you can roll pieces up for easy transport home.
From your own supplies, bring brushes and oil pastels:
Additional brushes are fine, the sizes don’t need to be exact. Basically you want a few brushes to experiment with, of different sizes and styles. I use Craypas oil pastels as they are very affordable and have a nice level of oil, not too oily, not too dry, but any oil pastels will work.
For your $25 material fee, the instructor will provide non-toxic acrylic paint primary colors, black colored pencils as marking tools, oil pastels for accent colors and marking, and heavy paper as a surface, so you can roll pieces up for easy transport home.
From your own supplies, bring brushes and oil pastels:
- Small brush for details
- 1 inch flat brush
- 1/2 inch chip brush
- Fan brush
- 1 of each: blue, red, yellow and white oil pastel
Additional brushes are fine, the sizes don’t need to be exact. Basically you want a few brushes to experiment with, of different sizes and styles. I use Craypas oil pastels as they are very affordable and have a nice level of oil, not too oily, not too dry, but any oil pastels will work.
What to Expect
“This is an open level class. It's perfect for any level; there is plenty to be learned by those who are full time artists and teachers. It is also accessible and understandable to those who have never drawn, mixed color, or painted before. A mix of demonstration, lecture, and hands-on painting will introduce students to my ideas, techniques and the concepts that motivate my work. This class is perfect for students who want to loosen up. Learn to not be afraid to make mistakes, learn that you dont need to know how to draw', mix color, or paint to be a painter. It's about having fun expressing yourself and learning to change direction. Just because you start painting something doesnt mean that's what you have to finish. I teach you to find new direction and excitement to keep the process moving in unexpected ways. So much of the best work happens on accident."
In this mixed-media painting class, you will learn to create paintings that emerge from an abstract base of markings, colors, line, and shape, to form expressive and organic creations. Students will learn painting and mark making techniques that will encourage imagery and connection to their work. Through a series of painting exercises, you will explore and express your ideas by imagining what could be created from abstraction rather than confining your ideas to predetermined outcomes. Within the process, we will create narrative dialogue by noting what we see and feel in our work . Through the practice of subtractive painting, we will remove the parts that are no longer relevant or keep us trapped from progress. This teaches us choice and freedom to change direction in our work. We continually build layers within our paintings, combining fragments of passed ideas with the new until we arrive at a feeling of completion . Through this engagement we learn to experiment, take risks, re-associate our work from perspectives unconfined by our expectations. This allows us to see things DIFFERENTLY and move to a more expressed and personal engagement when painting. Using simple materials and techniques, you will be free to express yourself within your paintings in new ways: learning from the raw base of art, discovering your personal likes and dislikes, connecting you to your practice and imagery from a position of experimentation and instinct.
I want to teach you to imagine the unimaginable. For me, painting is an experience in every way, i love the feeling of each of my mediums and methods, drawing clenched fisted, wrong handed, without looking, using my hand and palms to smear and mix acrylic paints, using brushes, scrapers, oil crayons, and pastels in any way that comes to mind. I'm always looking for a new technique to inspire me. Painting in many reckless layers searching for a meaning in random intentions, then pulling out the images i begin to see. This is what I will aim to instill in all of you: the excitement of the unexpected, creating in ways that don't seem logical. This is a key step towards understanding intuitions.
In this mixed-media painting class, you will learn to create paintings that emerge from an abstract base of markings, colors, line, and shape, to form expressive and organic creations. Students will learn painting and mark making techniques that will encourage imagery and connection to their work. Through a series of painting exercises, you will explore and express your ideas by imagining what could be created from abstraction rather than confining your ideas to predetermined outcomes. Within the process, we will create narrative dialogue by noting what we see and feel in our work . Through the practice of subtractive painting, we will remove the parts that are no longer relevant or keep us trapped from progress. This teaches us choice and freedom to change direction in our work. We continually build layers within our paintings, combining fragments of passed ideas with the new until we arrive at a feeling of completion . Through this engagement we learn to experiment, take risks, re-associate our work from perspectives unconfined by our expectations. This allows us to see things DIFFERENTLY and move to a more expressed and personal engagement when painting. Using simple materials and techniques, you will be free to express yourself within your paintings in new ways: learning from the raw base of art, discovering your personal likes and dislikes, connecting you to your practice and imagery from a position of experimentation and instinct.
I want to teach you to imagine the unimaginable. For me, painting is an experience in every way, i love the feeling of each of my mediums and methods, drawing clenched fisted, wrong handed, without looking, using my hand and palms to smear and mix acrylic paints, using brushes, scrapers, oil crayons, and pastels in any way that comes to mind. I'm always looking for a new technique to inspire me. Painting in many reckless layers searching for a meaning in random intentions, then pulling out the images i begin to see. This is what I will aim to instill in all of you: the excitement of the unexpected, creating in ways that don't seem logical. This is a key step towards understanding intuitions.