Bryan Memorial Art Gallery

"The workshop with George Van Hook was a great experience. He was an indefatigable teacher giving multiple demonstrations and positive encouragement to all. I hope there will be more workshops with him."

"This was a great workshop! George was wonderful. His demonstrations were great along with his ongoing dialogue and he came along side each one of us. This was my first workshop so I really didn't know what to expect. Everything was well done and being with the other fellow painters was great fun"

"I learned valuable painting principles from George in the two days. He is a wonderful oil and watercolor painter— and has original masterful techniques to help us have fun painting and to achieve results plein air without much touch up in the studio. George did oil and watercolor demos each day and honest and helpful critiques of my attempts. It was exhausting but well worth my time. Great experience!"

"I have been an amateur oil painter at a retirement community for fourteen years but never had the motivation or supplies to seriously try acrylic painting. Robert Brunelle’s two-day course provided just such an opportunity. Unlike many art teachers who don’t really offer a planned course of instruction, Mr. Brunelle offers a carefully designed approach to the challenges inherent in the handling of acrylics. He illustrated techniques for addressing different subjects by actually painting examples as we watched. Here, surely, a picture was worth a thousand words. And he is also very good with words."

"Robert was a great instructor. His knowledge and skill were impressive and he was a good teacher. He combined lectures and demonstrations and gave us time to practice. I had been painting with acrylics for about a year, but I still learned so much! The small class size meant that we could all ask questions and get feedback on our work."