Barbara Benda Nagle

The beautiful Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hopkins, MN, was the location for my latest art event,The Festival of Artists, held on March 25th to promote Dillman’s Art Workshop Retreat in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.  I will be teaching Drawing and Watercolor for the Beginning Artist  this coming September 24th-28th at Dillman’s! I am excited!

I was given the privilege of giving a one-hour demonstration and encouraging artists of all levels to sign up for a workshop at Dillman’s.  In the photo, I am showing brush technique to my new young artist friend! I met so many people and was so happy when I found out two women signed up that day! Thank you, Stephanie, Todd, and Lynn for your assistance and accommodation at this event! I look forward to teaching in the beautiful forests on a peninsula in Wisconsin during a time of great beauty of autumn colors and cool breezes from the lake.

I’ll see you in September….at Dillman’s!  To learn more, please click on this link: http://www.dillmans.com/dcaf/2018/barbara-benda-nagle.html. 

The  Explorations in Drawing and Watercolor Workshop was held at the North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) on March 12-15th,2018. What an amazing group of artists! Some stated they had never painted before and some were seasoned veterans. It did not matter. It does not matter where you are on your creative journey. My workshops unite all levels, erase all lines between them, and connect artists on a deeper plane of friendship, sharing, honesty, and affirmation. We all helped one another get to the next level of painting. Each day we progressed from one skill to the next and met Day 4 with confidence in being able to begin a final painting that may need to be fine-tuned at home. I received suggestions to make this workshop a 5-day course and I am planning that for next year when I teach the week of March 11th,2019.  NDSCS was a fabulous venue for us-great lighting, large tables, state of the art technology so lessons were not shared around a table, but all could sit at their own tables and  view a large screen with techniques presented with a document camera. Immediately after the demo, the artists would practice what I showed them.  Thank you, Fargo workshop artists, for being a blessing to me and my wonderful assistant, Beverly. Thank you, NDSCS, for providing a fabulous venue for a drawing and painting workshop. Your staff was so helpful and accommodating. Yes, we will be returning to light the fire for those of you who simply want to better yourselves as artists or dive in to a new passion. Everyone can learn, everyone can draw, everyone can paint. That is my belief and I’m sticking to it!

What a fabulous week Beverly and I spent with this fabulous group of artists in East Grand Forks Jan.23-26th! It was a time of connection, learning, sharing, improving, thinking, laughing, and of course, drawing and painting. I enjoyed each of these women who were at varying stages in their creative journey of drawing and painting. We worked hard each day with many practice exercises and progressed toward learning how to design,compose, and infuse dramatic value into our own compositions. By Day 4, we were mentally tired, but also energized because, beneath it all is HOPE…..hope that this investment in ourselves is going to make us better at meeting our own individualized needs to create something that is unique and personal. The workshop was held at the beautiful Campbell Library in East Grand Forks. We had great lighting, spacious tables, and a fabulous projection system with huge screen. I want to thank all of you for making this past week an exciting and enjoyable week because each of you added to the flavor of this workshop and made it successful! Many, many thanks!

If you are interested in attending a workshop, please look at the previous entry with my complete 2018 schedule and choose the location that suits you best. I hope to see you there! If you have no supplies, we have a supply kit for you to purchase for your own ease of shopping. Please contact Beverly today to sign up!