Painting Pollock Workshop with Kevin Larkin | Friday 8/15-8/22 10am-1:00pm | Summer 2025
Workshops | Available
Paint in the style of one of America's most famous artists, Jackson Pollock. Instructor Kevin Larkin will guide students through a discussion of the life and career of Jackson Pollock before moving into the hands on fun of pouring paint! Students will create two large Jackson Pollock inspired paintings with the guidance of Kevin Larkin in different techniques, color choices, and stylistic methods. At the end of the workshop, students will take home their masterpieces created by dripping and pouring acrylic paint into complex webs of interlacing lines of color.
Please wear clothes and shoes that you won't mind getting paint on.
- SUPPLY LIST:
-1 plastic drop cloth 9ft x 12 ft
-4 or 8 oz tubes of acrylic paint (no craft paint)
Students choice of colors but must include black & white
-2 stretched canvases 18" x 24" or larger
8-10 cheap brushes - 1" china hair brushes, plastic or wood handle (sold at Home Depot in the paint section for less than $1)
-12 solo cups for pouring
Kevin Larkin
Kevin Larkin has exhibited his award winning paintings throughout the NY metropolitan area, and is currently the President of the B.J. Spoke Gallery in Huntington.
" The artist advances by pursuing both complexity and simplicity. Often a breakthrough somehow discovers the one in the other, along with new ways of perceiving and managing both. Kevin Larkin’s latest works are his strongest: more than ever the picture and the painting are one and the same. There is no excess, nothing to demonstrate technique or to prove good work – only the success of the painting. Such simplicity is a risk: when there is no display of prowess, one risks the charge of not knowing what one is doing. Kevin Larkin is indifferent to charges: his only concern is to make a picture that works well.
Even when one’s tested and proven approaches demand work that is greatly challenging, the