Workshop with Amanda Milliner

September 12, 2026 from 10 AM – 5 PM

Paint Annapolis 2026 Juried Artist Amanda Milliner will be teaching a live flower painting workshop!

Learn the essentials of plein air still-life painting, see a demo, and brush up on your painting skills!

Students will learn how Amanda uses paint to bring light and life into her incredible floral 

Learn plein air florals from the incredibly talented Amanda Milliner! This workshop will teach you the basics of capturing a vibrant bouquet of flowers and transforming a plein air still life into a gorgeous painting. A returning Paint Annapolis artist, Amanda paints with vibrant colors that infuse a sense of joy into her work. Get an inside look into her process and receive personalized instruction while creating your own plein air still-life! 

details

what

Plein air still-life painting workshop with Amanda Milliner, Paint Annapolis Juried Artist

who

Open to all artists who pay the $135 registration fee

Minimum 8 people required; maximum 14

No previous plein air or painting experience required

when

September 12, 2026 from 10 AM – 4 PM 

where

Location TBA

why

Brush up on your still life skills

Take inspiration from and learn from the incredibly talented Amanda Milliner

what to bring?

Please click the button below to see Amanda’s recommended supply list!

Artists are also recommended to bring a hat, water, paper towels, q-tips, sunscreen, bug spray, and whatever else you need to be comfortable outside for a gorgeous day of painting.

About Amanda

Amanda is an award winning, professional oil painter, working out of her home studio located in Severn, Maryland. A true local to the area, Amanda grew up outside of Annapolis and has spent the last decade challenging herself to work ‘en plein air’ to describe scenes of everyday life around the Chesapeake Bay region. She paints in a representational style using modern Impressionist techniques like broken color and loose brushwork.

The artist has been showing her work for over 20 years and is known best for her vibrant color palette. Amanda strives to describe everyday scenes with her own impressions of color and light. She finds the process of oil painting to be expressive in itself, mixing and moving the paint around to get the desired effect. As a representational painter, she is endlessly fascinated by the challenges of piecing together a cohesive image, from one decision to the next. The artist is most inspired by rich color. Amanda enjoys getting lost in comparing each color and value, trying carefully to preserve the moment; to really see the essence of her subject. She keeps her colors as intuitive as possible, sticking with her initial impressions. Amanda explores a variety of subjects in her work including landscape, still life, and figure.

Amanda’s plein air technique involves careful consideration of her subject, composition, and color through the use of small sketches and a limited palette. She paints on location, within a small window of time of only several hours, to create her plein air works. Sometimes she returns to the same location, at the same time of day to complete her larger paintings.

Milliner holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. She has studied both classical and high renaissance art history on location in Florence, Italy at Studio Art Centers International (SACI). Amanda shows her work at the member-owned gallery, Artists’ Gallery Ellicott City, where she also served on the Board of Directors from 2022-2025. Amanda is currently the Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Plain Air Painters Association (MAPAPA). In addition to her studio practice, Amanda also teaches adult art classes at the Columbia Art Center in Howard County, Maryland. The artist competes and displays her artwork at national juried exhibitions for the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and the American Impressionist Society (AIS).