Workshops at the Atelier
At Texas Hill Country Atelier, we offer several different workshops each year. You do not have to be enrolled in the Core Atelier program in order to register for a workshop. Enhance your painting and drawing skills by attending an Atelier workshop this year.
Upcoming Workshops
VISITING ARTIST
Painting Mediums
David Heskin
Dec 9 - 11, 2026
We are very pleased to welcome David Heskin to our studios! David has extensive experience in several mediums including oil and egg tempera. He has created his own line of hemp mediums for oil painting. Come meet David and gain rare knowledge about oil paints mediums.
Read more about David Heskin.
VISITING ARTIST
Landscape Painting in the Studio
Roger Parsons
Mar 22 - 25, 2027
Explore color, light, and atmosphere in this landscape painting workshop with Roger Parsons! Learn to mix accurate color values, develop expressive mark-making, and create a painting that reflects your personal vision.
All experience levels welcome! Some painting background and a basic understanding of perspective and composition are helpful.
Coming Again in 2027
MASTER INSTRUCTOR
Seeing Value
Holly White-Gehrt
June 2027
Seeing value (dark to light) is the key to understanding light. Learn how value is key to composition and is THE way to create three dimensional illusion in drawing and painting.
CE credit and discount is offered for teachers. Open to all artists.
CORE PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR
Youth Atelier Program
Matthew Fielder
July 2027
In this intensive two-week program, Matthew Fielder, assistant teacher for the Core Atelier, will teach the fundamentals of excellent drawing with a special focus on the portrait. Students will work from a live costumed model in the second week.
MASTER INSTRUCTOR
Egg Tempera
Holly White-Gehrt
August 2027
There is no better way to understand pigments than to make your own paints! Get hands-on experience with this historic technique. Egg Tempera paintings are more durable and luminous than oil paintings, and are sometimes described as a "mosaic of semi-precious gemstones."
All levels welcome.
Examples of Past Workshops
CORE PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS
Ambi Drawing
Holly White-Gehrt & Matthew Fielder
July 18 - 19, 2026
This workshop explored drawing with the Left Hand/Right Brain and the Right Hand/Left Brain. Artists explored the power of the divided brain, using both hands to develop a drawing. This ambidextrous approach was sure to surprise!
For beginners and seasoned artists alike.
VISITING ARTIST
The Mentler Methode
Michael Mentler
Aug 31 - Sept 3, 2026
Master Artist Michael Mentler brought his distinctive approach to figure drawing to the Atelier in this four-day intensive. Called the “modern day Leonardo da Vinci” by Richard Schmid, Mentler shared his approach to studying the figure from the historic Master perspective.
This workshop was for artists ready to take their figure drawing to the next level.
VISITING ARTIST
Imaginative Realism
Tenaya Sims
Jul 9 - 12, 2024
Tenaya Sims taught time-tested techniques for creating luminous form and skin in oil painting. Students learned to “sculpt with the paint” to mimic the way skin pulls over muscle, using underpainting, overpainting, translucent glazes and layers of paint. The workshop also explored brush selection, paint viscosity, tiling and blending to achieve the desired effect.
We are a Nonprofit Organization
The Texas Hill Country Atelier is a nonprofit art school, funded by program revenue and by the generous support of people like you. Your gift helps enables us to provide opportunities for artists and art enthusiasts to expand their abilities, knowledge, and appreciation for classical art.
We are grateful for your support. As a 501(c)(3) organization, your gift is tax deductible.
Financial records are available upon request.