Instructor: Teresa Oaxaca
Saturday | November 14, 2026 | 10:00 am-5:00 pm |all levels (adults) | $190 | oil (acrylic, watercolor, pastel welcomed also) | Falls Church Arts Gallery
Explore the beauty of birds and flowers in this one-day painting workshop. Students will work from live flowers, taxidermy specimens, and the instructor’s own bird photography to create lively, expressive paintings from nature. The instructor will demonstrate her painting process, with an emphasis on composition, color, light, and capturing the character and gesture of natural forms. Individual instruction and critiques will be provided throughout the day.
Teresa Oaxaca
Teresa Oaxaca is an American-born artist based currently in Washington, DC. She is a full-time painter whose works can be seen in collections and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. Her talent has been recognized and rewarded by museums and institutions such as the American Museum of the Cowboy, the former Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Art Renewal Center, the Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Posey Foundation, and the Portrait Society of America as well as the Museu Europeu D’Art Modern in Barcelona.
Her training includes a four-year diploma at the Angel Academy of Art (Florence Italy), graduate studies at the Florence Academy, an apprenticeship with Odd Nerdrum in Norway, and studies at the Art League of Alexandria, VA, where she trained with Robert Liberace and Paul Lucchesi and took many other courses. Currently she teaches workshops around the United States and in Europe.