A Starry Night: Painting Fireworks in the Night Sky - 8th to 12th Graders

The class “A Starry Night; Painting Fireworks in the Night Sky” will guide you through the galaxies using abstract techniques to paint colorful fireworks surrounded by a sea of stars, using acrylic paints. Hood River artist Laurel Bushman will push your imagination and techniques using NASA approved deep space photography as inspiration into your own artistic space exploration. This exciting process will give you skills to apply to other abstract painting styles creating new orbits for your artistry. Regardless of your current level, Laurel’s enthusiastic teaching style will launch you into out-of-this-world creativity.

Laurel Bushman is a classically trained artist who lives in Hood River, OR and Scottsdale, AZ. She has studied with numerous nationally recognized artists, primarily at Scottsdale Artists’ School. She enthusiastically emphasizes her love for movement, rhythm, color, texture, and contrast, utilizing a combination of palette knife, brush, and other mark-making tools. Laurel’s paintings are filled with her energy and hang throughout the USA and abroad.

This class is for students going into 8th through 12th grade.