Five Day Workshop – Painting the Streets – Provincetown

“Woman Walking, Barcelona”
20″ x 30″, oil on wood panel, 2015

For this 5 day workshop (June 27 – July 1, 2016), Firmin will be taking her students out on the streets of Provincetown, instructing them in working quickly with big brushes and bold color to capture the energy of the streets. This workshop is structured for both beginners and advanced painters who want to expand their painting skills. The first day the class will meet and paint at the Provincetown Monument. Firmin will be giving a demonstration at the beginning of each class, and there will be a critique at the end of each session. The next four days students will meet at assigned locations in Provincetown.

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist whose paintings and monotypes explore the relationship between people and their urban environment. Her urban landscapes, following in the tradition of earlier realists, depict a feeling of human solitude, of people headed somewhere undisclosed. Recent exhibitions include “Reflections”, new oil paintings, and the Hofstra University’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition, “The Lyon, the Which, and the Warhol.”