KAREN OFFUTT – FIGURE PAINTING ESSENTIALS – 3 DAY WORKSHOP February 2018

A native Texan, award winning, figurative artist Karen Offutt was primarily self-taught until her mid-twenties when she began to take a more formal approach to her education focusing on drawing and painting with oils at Austin Fine Arts Classes.  She has studied with some of of today’s most nationally renowned artists.  Karen is a true painter’s painter!  Her lush use of brushwork with constricted values creates an ethereal atmosphere within her figurative paintings.

Karen’s work has been featured in various publications such as Southwest Art Magazine, American Art Collector, International Artist Magazine, Artist on Art among others.  Her work has also won awards and received recognition nationally from Salon International, the Portrait Society of America, and Oil Painters of America.  Over the years her work has shown in various invitational and juried exhibitions and can currently be found in galleries such as Jack Meier Gallery in Houston, TX, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO, and the Principle Gallery in Charleston, SC.

Karen and her husband, along with their two young boys, currently live in Austin, Texas.  www.karenoffutt.com