The Shape of Water
BOOTH MUSEUM ACADEMY · ARTIST TALK · 2026
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This 4-day studio workshop will focus on painting realistic water with deep reflections. Learn Kami’s approach to creating beautiful water and the roll light plays in the scene, as she shares her techniques used in painting water by employing shapes of color.
Workshops
Realism Live
REALISM LIVE · DEMONSTRATION · 2024
Painting Demonstration with Kami Mendlik
A painting demonstration exploring Kami’s approach to color, observation, and creating the illusion of light.
Plein Air Live
PLEIN AIR LIVE · DEMONSTRATION · 2025
Painting the Morning Light
Kami demonstrates her approach to capturing early morning light through color relationships, value, and observation.
Bell Museum
BELL MUSEUM · GALLERY TALK · 2024
Moments of Memory: Minnesota Landscapes Painted from Life
Kami leads a gallery conversation exploring painting from life and the principles that inform her approach to landscape painting.
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM · EXHIBITION · 2023
Creating the Illusion of Light
An exhibition featuring Kami Mendlik and Frederick D. Somers, exploring contemporary approaches to landscape and the illusion of light.
4/5/2027 - 4/8/2027
SCOTTSDALE ARTISTS SCHOOL: THE SHAPE OF WATER
This four-day studio workshop will focus on painting realistic water with deep reflections. Learn Kami’s approach to creating beautiful water and the role light plays in the scene, as she shares her techniques used in painting water by employing shapes of color…
YORKSHIRE ENGLAND - CAPTURING COLOUR AND LIGHT IN THE LANDSCAPE
6/27/2027 - 7/3/2027
Colour is relative! No colour stands alone; it appears to look a certain way because of the colour next to it. This is relativity. The first step is to see this, the next is to make the color…
8/15/2027 - 8/20/2027
Plein Air to Studio in Vermont
In this workshop, we will begin the first morning with students watching me paint ‘en plein air’ as I demonstrate how I capture the essential elements of color, light, and shapes, while I work from life. We will then move into the studio, and I’ll be using that plein air study to demonstrate how I use the piece along with a photo reference of the scene to paint a larger studio piece…