V.I.E.W: Virtual Interactive Escapade Workshops
V.I.E.W: Virtual Interactive Escapade Workshops
Paint Live from your home with a master and fellow artists. We are working hand in hand with our team of high-end artists/instructors to present you unique interactive live online painting workshops where you can paint along and get feedback from the comfort of your home. Check our V.I.E.W. calendar with all the online classes we offer with different instructors.
Painting for the class
V.I.E.W. by Kim Minichiello: Magic Yellow Mushrooms
Level: High Beginner and Intermediate- Max 16 participants
Dates: May 26 & 28 (9am-noon PDT). Orientation meeting-3o min on May 24 at 9am.
Join international award winning artist, Kim Minichiello as she shares her techniques painting colorful hallucinogenic yellow mushrooms. Kim will share a variety of techniques that she uses in her work.
This course will follow a step by step process and focus on:
As Kim demonstrates, step by step, quiet time is provided so that you can paint along with her. Critique and feedback is an important part of the time in class. Since the class is interactive, you will be able to ask questions directly to Kim, show her your work through your camera to get personal feedback and critique and see your fellow artists’s work too.
Rate: US$ 178 for 2 sessions of 3 hours (total 6 hours)
The price includes:
After you have registered for the workshop:
You will receive the supply list, a drawing and a photo of the subject matter. Please print your reference photo for the class.
Kim Minichiello’s Biography:
Kim Minichiello is an internationally recognized award-winning artist whose career in art and design has spanned more than 30 years. As a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering, she worked on the concept development and design for Disney parks worldwide.
Kim is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, American Woman Artists, and the Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Florida Watercolor Societies, and was 2019 President of the Florida Watercolor Society. She is also an Artist Member of the prestigious California Art Club. She is a member of thirteen professional painting societies and is a founding member of the Orlando, Florida Chapter of the worldwide Urban Sketchers Organization.
She has exhibited her work in Europe, Japan, China, Hong Kong and throughout the United States, winning numerous awards, most notably the Winsor & Newton Award in the 151st American Watercolor Society Exhibition and the Southwest Art Magazine award in “Making Their Mark: American Women Artists at the Booth Western Art Museum. She has been featured in global publications including the Watercolor Artist Magazine, Plein Air Magazine and American Art Collector. She was chosen one of fifty six artists worldwide for The Fabriano Watercolour 2020 /2021Exhibition at the Museo della Carta e della Filigranna, in Fabriano, Italy. Her work will also be featured in Splash 22: The Creative Spark. She was also a faculty member of Watercolor Live 2021, a global virtual art conference produced by Streamline Publishing, publishers of Plein Air and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazines.
More Info about Kim Minichiello:
Website: https://www.kimminichiello.com
Instagram: @kimminichiello
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim.minichiello.9
You Tube Channel: search Kim Minichiello
V.I.E.W. Registration Form
French Escapade has been dedicated to bring the artist community together since 2004 by offering plein-air painting workshops in amazing settings abroad or in the US.
In today’s challenging times, we want this sense of community to continue even though we are all confined in our homes and isolated from one another.
So V.I.E.W., our Virtual Interactive Escapade Workshop, is a program whose goal in not only to offer online painting classes, but also a sense of camaraderie in small groups of people painting together as friends. Like in our plein-air painting workshops, we wish to recreate this congeniality that we lack so much when sheltered in place. Our wonderful team of instructors has jumped on board with enthusiasm and has at heart to bring art and comfort to you in this trying time.
From your home, you will participate in our Virtual Interactive Escapade Workshop hosted by Jackie and instructed by one of our art instructors on your laptop, desktop or Ipad.
You can mirror the screen of your Ipad or computer to your TV screen (smart TVs, Apple TV, …). We will help you for the setup if you do not feel comfortable. We will also do a group test prior to the first online painting session to make sure you are comfortable using the application.
With V.I.E.W., you can sign-up for a live online workshop from a wide variety of artists, media and levels all in one place.
Save money by becoming recurrent V.I.E.W. participants with our fidelity program.
We offer 2 types of V.I.E.W. Master Classes:
How are our V.I.E.W. workshops different than other online classes?
Email us at contact@frenchescapade.com and make sure to let us know for what teacher you want to sign up. We will send you a registration form to fill out.
1- If you sign up over a week before the online class, you can send us a US check, payable to French Escapade LLC. Address is: 2389 Blackpool Pl, San Leandro, CA 94577.
2- You can either send your payment using ZELLE. It is free. All big US banks offer ZELLE. It is very easy to set up. Go to your online bank account and you will see the option “ZELLE”. It will only take a minute to set it up. Choose contact@frenchescapade.com as recipient.
3- We can use Paypal and use your credit card. Choose contact@frenchescapade.com as recipient.
You will need to download an application. We will let you know which one when you sign up. The application is free and very easy to use. You can download it on your mobile, your tablet or your computer. We recommend using a computer (PC or Mac) because the screen is bigger and it will allow you to see the demo better.
You can contact us and we will help you but it is really a 3 min straight forward process.
We organize a short meeting with all the participants the day before the first session to make sure everyone knows how to use it. It is very simple to use.
We send you an invitation to the meeting via email ahead of time with the date and time of the meeting. When it is time, you just need to click on the link to enter the online session. The moderator will be able to see that you are trying to join and will let you in.
Don’t worry, that won’t happen. There is always be a member of French Escapade facilitating the session. Everyone have their microphone muted and the moderator lets people ask questions one at the time when it is appropriate in the session.
Yes, you paint during the session. After a short demo from the teacher, everyone has time to paint for a specific length of time. During that time, you can ask questions to the teacher if you encounter a problem with your painting. After the painting time, the teacher proceedes with more content (demo, techniques,…) and then again, after that demo, you paint what you just learned and so on. The goal is for you to have finished a painting (or close to that) at the end of the session. During the third session, everyone can share their work with the teacher and the other participant and get feedback from the teacher. You don’t need to share if you don’t feel comfortable but we encourage you to do so in order to receive feedback.
We send everyone the teacher’s recommended painting supplies list ahead of time.
You can turn off the camera via the application. We will still see your name in a black box.
Unfortunately we can refund you. You pay for a 3 session package.
No. The V.I.E.W. workshop is only for registered participants. The moderator can see everyone accessing the session and will only accept the people who are registered.