PcPs Potato Chips Paint Shop
A Little Time to Make Art Every Week
In its 13th session
Live Online Art Courses
Learn to Paint
With Sam Payne
A time each week to slow down and pay attention to the poetry and creativity of painting - For all levels.
What is Painting Really?
You scroll through social media and see so many styles and methods to make a painting -
You try it on you own -
But it just feels like some things aren't clicking. You can't get the color right, you don't know how to start, the paint seems to be drying too fast, the objects look flat ...
Sam teaches the fundamentals and various styles of painting so that they rhyme with the content and carry meaning.
Sam has designed each exercise, demonstration, and slide show to connect the dots.
If you want to learn about color, composition, creativity, the history of art, create meaningful moments...
These workshops are for you
At the end of each class you will have taken creative risks, learned new skills, engaged in new ways of talking about art, and experienced fresh ways of seeing.
Take Some Time to Paint Each Week With Sam
What You Will Learn
Painting foundational skills as containing myriad ideas and possibilities from Art History
Creativity and Experimentation as self - trust and risk taking
Visual Language to describe and talk about art.
Contemporary understandings of painting today
Various Perspectives on what art is.
What Sam's Students Are Saying About The Workshops
“I was resistant to learning to paint on Zoom but it is actually wonderful. I can keep my studio setup and Sam has the 2 cameras dialed in with incredible art history slide shows and easy to see palette and canvas demonstrations.”
Claire R - Spring 2023 Student
"Sam sets a nice positive tone in the class. He modeled having fun, experimenting, and discovering in a unique way.”
Bill S - Winter 2024 Student
"Sam helped me to see color differently. The activities in his classes helped me to not just see color, but to experience it. I look more closely now at how light, and the proximity of other colors can change my perceptions."
Sandra F - Winter 2026 Student
Current Workshops
Next Workshops Start April 22
All Workshops are Live.
They are conversational, improvisatory and interactive.
7 to 10 Students per Workshop.
Painting Foundations
Learn to paint objets in a loose and alive style.
Week 1
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Materials and Mixing
Week 2
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Color and Beauty
Week 3
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3 Value Paintings
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Systems that set up for a relaxed painting environment.
Week 4
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Wet on Wet exercises in color.
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Monochromatic and brush work.
Week 5
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Copy problem or
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Final Still Life Project
Who Is This Workshops For?
The Student who has a goal in mind : They want to learn to paint paintings of things in a loose wet style. Great for students wanting to improve their current paintings or those who are just starting. No Experience Necessary.
What is Painting
Begin with the possibilities and discover what paint has to offer.
Week 1
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Painting as Breath
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Limits as Creative Jumpstart
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Mixing Paint
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Application Skills
Week 2
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Palette Knife Painting
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Blending
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Color Mixing
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Color Systems
Week 3
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Complementaries
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Intention
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Brush Skills
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Fine Art and Craft
Week 4
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Invention
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Painting Clouds
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Editing and Open Processes
Week 5
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Transparency
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Abstraction
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Design
Who Is This Workshop For?
The student who wants broad introduction to painting from representation to abstraction. Great for students wanting to improve their current paintings or those who are just starting. No Experience Necessary.
Why Paint Flowers?
Learn To Paint Flowers in a loose wet-on-wet intuitive style.
Week 1
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Materials, Mixing, Fresh Vision (Values and Shapes), Paint Application.
Week 2
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Getting Loose, Drawing with the Brush,
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Wet-on Wet Techniques.
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3 Value Method and Form
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Backgound and forground processes.
Week 3
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5 Value Paintings, Wet-on-Wet Techniques -
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the land of no mistakes.
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Getting values right.
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Local color and emotional color.
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3 fundamental concepts of color.
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Monochromatic
Week 4
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Simple Color and Complex color
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Composition
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Brush size, dynamics and direction of mark.
Week 5
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Independent projects.
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Play and Challenge.
Who Is This Workshop For?
The student who wants to dive into painting flowers in a loose wet-on-wet style. No Experience Necessary. Great for students wanting to improve their current paintings or those who are just starting.
Cost
All Virtual Workshops cost $245.00 for 5 classes 2 hrs each class.
Sliding Scale and Payment Plans available.
Registration is confirmed by payment.
Supplies
Supplies list for all workshops provided on registration.
Includes links for simple one click online purchase from Dick Blick Art Store.
You can also use any supplies you already have.
Basic Kit = $100
Where
All Virtual Workshops Meet on Zoom.
Link will be provided on registration.
How Are Virtual Workshops Taught?
Next Workshops Start April 22
2 cameras (palette and teacher views)
Rich Art History Slide Shows
Individual and Group Crtique
Visiting Artist Talks
PDF's From Class Provided
Some REcordings of Lectures Provided
Typical Workshop Schedule
All Virtual Workshops Are Live and 2 hrs
Group Share (15 min)
Students are asked to send pictures of work.
Sam compiles these into a slide show for conversation.
Slide Show (20 min)
Slides from art history pretaining to the current weeks topic and leads a discussion.
Demonstration by Sam (15 min)
Palette and Surface view of Sam walking through techniques and exercises.
10 min break
In Class Project (50 min)
Take some time to paint!
Review of Suggested HW Assignment (10 min)
*Depending on the class some sessions we might opt out of the slide show, group share, or Demonstration in order to make more time for painting.
Meet The Artist
Sam Payne
Working in Mexico, USA and France, Sam is well respected for his diverse body of work including installations, videos, paintings, collages and drawings.
His work has been defined by a deep understanding of art history and the systems of image construction and representation. He has now made his custom class projects based on his extensive knowledge available to students in an easy to understand and relaxed manner.
His record includes solo and group exhibitions in NYC and across the United States, 10 years working in galleries and over 10 years teaching University and Continuing Education levels.
Not Your Typical Painting Classes
Sam built Potato Chips Paint Shop
as a way to inspire students to make time for art each week,
a space for poetry and process.
Engage with a wonderful community interested in learning about the history of thinking through painting.
Sam does not teach a cookie cutter technique. He inspires each individual to follow their own path in art and creativity.
He has the rare ability to teach the basics and at the same time give these foundations deep historical and creative meaning.
"Some of the best moments for me have been when I realize there has been silence for 30 minutes except for the sounds of brushes and paint mixing as each student is in this kind of intense private and shared vitual space. It is a great feeling when students realize that there is a conversation to be had around preconceptions of beauty and when it feels like the are in a space of listening to what each of them are trying to make sense of."
