Elisabeth Marsch: Mini Masterpieces! 2 Day Workshop September 5 & 6, 2025.
Elisabeth Marsch: Mini Masterpieces! 2 Day Workshop September 5 & 6, 2025.
September 5-6, 2025
Friday and Saturday
9:30 am-4 pm
$250 includes a selection of small panels
Learn the art of the miniature!
In this two-day workshop we will learn to paint mini masterpieces while developing skills to strengthen paintings of all sizes. Painting small we will learn to simplify compositions, block in color, and grasp essentials quickly and efficiently, opening ourselves up to painting larger works with a simple plan and clear vision. You may find these jewel-like miniatures capture your heart and become your favorite new way to paint!
Intimidated by painting small? Have no fear; we will work in a variety of sizes from 6x8” down to 1x1” according to each person’s comfort level. Painters of all levels and subjects are welcome, as we will cover portraits, animals, landscape, and still life.
With mini paintings you can:
- participate in a rich history of miniature art
- paint tiny jewel-like artworks that fit anywhere
- transport and sell work more readily than with larger paintings
- make finished artwork with less time and fewer resources
- learn skills that strengthen your art practice
- make mini sketches to grasp ideas and work out problems before beginning larger paintings
Supply List
Painting miniatures is more about approach than specific materials. For that reason, this supply
list is flexible, so don’t feel stressed about getting exactly what’s listed. You’ll learn what you like
to use as you go. We will be working in sizes such as 1x1”, 2x3”, 3x4”, and 6x6”.
Substrate
- a sketchbook
- a few medium or small panels, any size from 2x3” up to 11x14”. The larger panels can be
gridded out into mini sizes and multiple paintings can be practiced on one panel.
- painting paper or loose canvas for making small sketches. (optional)
I will provide a selection of mini panels in sizes such as 1x1”, 2x3”, 3x4”, and 6x6”, so the
substrates you bring will be primarily for practice.
Palette
Any palette of colors you enjoy using is fine. My usual palette is:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Medium (portraits) or Lemon Yellow (landscapes)
- Hansa Yellow Deep
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Alizarin Crimson
- Burnt Sienna or Transparent Red Iron Oxide
- Burnt Umber
- Raw Umber
- Viridian
- an additional Green such as Sap Green, Permanent Green, Earth Green (landscape)
- King’s Blue Light (which is just Ultramarine Blue plus White, easy to mix it instead of buying)
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ivory or Mars BlackWorkshop Info, Bio, Supply List
@Warehouse 521
September 5-6, 2025
Brushes
- any small to medium brushes from your normal painting set
- a few big brushes from your normal painting set
- a selection of 6-8 miniature brushes. Most supply stores such as Jerry’s Artarama, Blick, and
Plaza will have mini brushes, just get a selection of the smallest in a variety of shapes. A few
good starter sets are:
- https://www.jerrysartarama.com/princeton-velvetouch-series-3950-synthetic-blend-mini-
brush-set-6
- https://www.dickblick.com/products/princeton-select-series-3750-value-brush-sets/ - set
15, set 20, set 22, set 23
Other supplies
- palette. Wooden, glass, and disposable are all fine. I use Grey Matters disposable palette paper.
- palette knife for mixing
- oil or medium (I use walnut or linseed oil mixed with gamsol)
- gamsol
- paper towels
- pencils for sketching
- a small ruler for measuring (optional)
- masking tape or similar (optional)
Elisabeth Marsch
Artist Bio
Elisabeth is a portrait and figure painter specializing in miniatures and in painting on reacted copper panels. She works with acids, metal, and unusual materials to create rich substrates for her paintings, which explore the human psyche and its relationship to other people and the world.
Since taking her undergraduate degree in painting, aesthetics, and philosophy from Union University (Jackson, TN), she has worked as a metal smith, artist, and art tutor while showing in solo and group exhibitions and giving talks on the practice and philosophy of art. In 2016 she attended a residency at the New York Academy of Art in lower Manhattan, upon completion of which she moved to Franklin, TN to further develop her work in portraiture. Over the past decade she has created hundreds of commissioned works for clients throughout the US and around the world. In 2024 she moved to Spring Hill, TN where she continues to develop her work in the human figure and experimental media.
Elisabeth is a member of ACWC, NOAPS, the Chestnut Group, the Portrait Society of America, the Spring Hill Chamber of Commerce, and is a member with Distinction of American Women Artists.
To see more of Elsabeth’s work visit, www.marschstudios.com