I will run a one-day workshop at my studio on painting drapery and fabric, Saturday, Dec. 7 at 144 Moody Street, my studio in Waltham. The cost will be $110. Please use the comment section to let me know you’re coming, or write to me at wilson7945@gmail.com

Simply put, painting drapery and fabrics is beginning with modified simple forms in rhythmic combination. Specifically the cylinders, cubes and cones that make up the bulk of how fabric folds and bends.

Next is building those simple shapes into dimensional forms by adding a light source and shadows. In the workshop we’ll be learning to see shapes (2D) and develop them into forms (3D). Shading and blending show how the light hits a form and describes how it exists in space.

Complex forms are made by combining simple forms, and overlapping forms create palpable space. A soft flowing form bends and changes direction, which both terry cloth and silk do, yet they are very different from each other. In order to describe different fabrics, we will study painting textures, which is all about which brushes to use, how to handle the brush to blend values and colors, finding the right viscosity of the paint for your image, and more.