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Michelle Winick

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Art Classes at Boys & Girls Club Begin Soon

Painting and drawing classes designed to introduce students to art.

The Boys & Girls Club of Wayne will host two art workshops for children beginning in early October. The Art Workshop will give children to learn and use paint, markers, and colored pencils to create collages. Supplies will be provided. The workshop is for children in kindergarten through second grade. Michelle Winick will teach the workshop. Winich is an interior designer and artist. She launched her own line of interior paints earlier this year. The Pencil Art Workshop will allow children to be taught how to create artwork using pencils. Winick’s father Jerry will lead the Pencil Art Workshop. His work has been shown at The Paterson Museum and in many art galleries in New York and New Jersey. The class is for children in third through …

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Designer Creates Her Own Line of Paints

The Michelle Winick Collection features very subtle, muted, almost peaceful, colors.

For Michelle Winick, art and design begin with color. Winick, a Wayne resident, has used her appreciation of color to create her own line of paints, the Michelle Winick Color Collection. The collection is sold in several North Jersey paint and home improvement stores. Winick’s father was a pencil artist and was always drawing. She often attended museums and took note of the way color enhanced the artwork she saw. She has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and design. “What I started to see was how something like the colors of a painting can affect the look and feel of a room,” Winick said. “That’s the power that color has.” The 45 colors that Winick has created are very subtle, muted, almost peaceful tone to them. The paints are manufactured…

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