Virginia, United States
I guess you could say I was born an artist! My intrinsic artistic abilities appeared around the age of 1½ years old when I began scribbling colorful imagery on my bedroom walls, later carving designs and cryptic messages on my parent’s fine furniture. Over the years, I have continued my artistic endeavors working as a monotype printmaker, painter, mixed media artist, and jewelry maker.

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Gina Louthian-Stanley- Cold Wax and Oil-NEW CLASS LOCATION-FLOYD, VA

NEW CLASS LOCATION-FLOYD, VA

The Happy Shack Art Studio Cold Wax and Oil Painting- 

2 days: September 28 and 29 • 10:00 a-3:00 p.


Discover the beautiful layers, textures, and marks that only oil and cold wax can achieve
finding inspiration within your own marks, compositions and intuition using non-traditional ol techniques. We will explore various techniques such as working methods, substrates, drying times, opaque and transparent color, pigments and powders, blending, color schemes, glazing, solvent reduction, transfer and printmaking techniques, creating textures, adding collage and more. Plenty of demos and individual discussions. A great class for beginners and those who want a refresher with advanced options. Gina will provide cold wax, some oils, tools, and R&F pigment sticks for class use, samples of Arches Oil paper, birch panels, various mark making tools and other samples of substrates.

Additional tools and wax will be available for sale.
Participants are welcome to bring beverages, snacks and lunches. 

The kitchenette in The Happy Shack will be available with refrigerator and microwave.
279 Bobcat Trail NW, Floyd, VACall 540-763-3202 (leave a message) 
or email Selena at selenamccolley@gmail.com with questions
or to register.

or Gina at lougael@gmail.com 
Upon registration you’ll be provided a short material list.






Friday, February 23, 2024

Painting With Fire 2024-2025 Lessons with Gina Louthian-Stanley


Good day friends,

I’m super excited to be invited back for my second year as a featured artist and instructor in Painting with Fire!

Thanks for purchasing a previous session from me.

I hope you'll choose to purchase Painting With Fire 2024 through my affiliate link, https://tinyurl.com/bderucze. You’ll also find that link on my website www.ginalouthain-stanley.com, email, and social media as well as updates on classes and workshops. 

BONUS: My 2024 bonus is a chance to win one of 5 creative coaching sessions with me! We’ll chat one-on-one over Zoom about any art topic of your choice for 30-minutes. I’m excited to connect and help. When you join PWF, you will also get materials discounts, a private facebook page where we can all connect and gather support, and more. 

I look forward to sharing another year of exciting classes, great artists, and an encouraging online community. Don’t worry if you haven’t watched all of the classes from the previous season(s). You’re not behind! Think of it as instant access to a reference library with lifetime access to instruction and advice from professional artists around the world. I hope to create with you this year. 



Here are the lessons I will be teaching:

Intuitive Nature!

These lessons will focus on the use of thumbnail sketching and viewfinder technique, specifically for observing and considering nature at a variety of scales. 

We will begin in the garden looking at the flowers and foliage creating thumbnails in our sketchbooks. 

We will then take those thumbnails and we will add color using collage and a variety of materials. 

 

 

Lesson Two: 

Intuitive Nature - Part 2

From the ‘Thumb’ to the Substrate. 

We will return to our sketchbooks from Intuitive Nature Part 1 and choose an image(s) and create on to the substrate using encaustic mediums and pigments along with 

mixed media and a plethora of tools to create and enhance our pieces to create the cultivation and evolution of our own botanical visualizations.