Go BIG! Bigger, Bolder, Braver: Advanced Oil and Cold Wax with Karen Sako

Concept

Ready to stretch your ambition - and your canvas? Go BIG! invites experienced oil and cold wax artists to supercharge their practice with scale, gesture, and bold visual storytelling. In this advanced workshop, embrace the physicality and strategy behind working large while balancing intuitive exploration with thoughtful structure. Learn to translate your existing process into expansive, powerful work that commands attention.

Experience

Through daily demonstrations, presentations, and personalized guidance, explore how composition, color, texture, and movement shift when you increase scale. Refine your editing strategies, push atmospheric depth, and create surfaces that feel alive with energy. Together, revisit foundational principles - then stretch them to new extremes. Leave with multiple large pieces, a sharpened understanding of how to present oversized work, and the confidence to take your artistic voice further and larger than before.

Skill Level

Designed for artists already familiar with oil and cold wax who want to deepen their skillset, expand their scale, and push the boundaries of their artistic practice.

Instructor

Fusing traditional art principles with exploratory techniques and materials, Karen Sako's abstract work examines the elusive quality of light and the complexity of nature. She brings enthusiasm and optimism to the classroom, where she continually invests her time and shares her trade secrets and findings with her students. Her goal is to ignite the next generation of pioneering creative visionaries and thinkers. Karen holds a BFA in Visual Communications from the Illinois Institute of Art and is an accomplished abstract artist, graphic designer, and instructor.