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Painting with Mimi

Love to Paint with Mimi demonstrates the joy of painting and creating. Even while painting beautiful pictures throughout this series of 13 half hour shows, Mimi Sammis provides insights into the creative process, discusses fine art painting techniques and offers new ways to see the world around us.

You will learn watercolor and acrylic painting techniques and explore the wonderful world of art through Mimi’s eyes. If you want to experience the thrill of being inside an artist’s head as she creates a painting, you will not want to miss Mimi Sammis in her latest TV series, Love to Paint with Mimi.

Mimi’s knack of showing us how to unlock our creative energy is amazing. Her wise and witty teaching style and enthusiasm for art inspires viewers of all ages and has won her fame as “the Julia Child of Painting”.

Watch Love to Paint with Mimi, to discover your own vision and how it will give energy and life to your paintings. Observe how Mimi uses different brush stokes and color to get desired effects in different paintings.

Join Mimi on her weekly TV show or purchase the DVD’s so that you can view the shows anytime.

Love to Paint with Mimi will be aired in the Rhode Island area at 1 PM on Saturdays on channels 36 and 8.

With a tax-deductable donation for the next series, you will receive a signed edition of Mimi’s work. Mimi and the children who benefit from these programs appreciate your support. Contact, mimi@mimisammis.com, or phone 401-741-0278. Checks payable to: PBS, Love to Paint with Mimi, PO Box 335 Narragansett, RI 02882.

“Mimi is an inspirational teacher who unlocked the creativity that is within us all." — A. Richardson

Love to Paint with Mimi airs Saturdays at 1 p.m. on WSBE Rhode Island PBS.

Over the air: 36.1 • Verizon and Cox Cable: Channel 8 • Direct TV: 36 • Dish Net: 7776

2nd SERIES - Thirteen Episodes

To download any of Mimi's episodes or the entire series, visit the "Love to Paint With Mimi" website!

Each show—filled with interesting painting techniques is one half hour long. They are aired weekly on your local PBS station.
Check your local listing for times and stations. You may also purchase DVDs of one or of all of the episodes.
Purchase of the DVDs helps support the program and provides you the opportunity to review information that is of particular interest to you.

	Show number 1: Tools of the Trade Walking into an art supply store can be a little daunting – especially for artists who are just starting out. In this episode, Mimi shows viewers how to choose exactly which supplies they need, while also keeping it simple. Back in the studio, she paints a scene of a peaceful pond.		Show number 2: Winslow Homer Mimi visits the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design museum to view the work of two great American artists – Winslow Homer and Frank W. Benson. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a seascape inspired by Homer’s On a Lee Shore.
	Show number 3: All About Mimi Ever wonder how Mimi became involved in art? In this episode, she’ll talk about her personal journey along the road of life and creativity. Back in the studio, she’ll paint a spectacular sunrise inspired by the view at her Narragansett Rhode Island home.		Show number 4: The Power of Art In this episode, Mimi visits a school that has used art as an extraordinary means to transform and heal. Back in the studio she paints a scene inspired by a stunning Rocky Mountain vista.
	Show number 5: Perspective In this episode, Mimi interviews renowned illustrator and author David Macaulay, who demonstrates the exciting ways in which perspective can be used. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a country road using one point perspective.		Show number 6: Paint Like No One’s Watching We’re all born with an innate impulse to create. In this episode, Mimi visits Sophia Academy in Providence Rhode Island where she conducts a creativity exercise with a group of students. Back in the studio, Mimi continues to show viewers ways they can access their creativity, without fear of judgment.
	Show number 7: Composition Guest artist Kerstin Zettmar joins Mimi to explore how composition can be used to guide the eye into and through a painting. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a Spanish country road using the ‘C’ curve.		Show number 8: Finding Inspiration Connecting with nature is one of the most powerful ways to be creatively inspired. Mimi found inspiration for this week’s painting on a recent trip to Hawaii.
	Show number 9: Dancing With Color Guest artist Rebekah Cook demonstrates how she uses primary and complimentary colors to create vibrant compositions. In the studio, Mimi demonstrates how different color schemes can create completely different moods and effects, even when the subject remains the same.		Show number 10: Value What is value? How do artists create interesting shapes? Why is it important to squint? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Mimi answers in this episode. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a dramatic scene of the ocean at full moon.
	Show number 11: Creating Together In this episode you’ll meet Mimi’s artists’ circle – a group of artists who inspire and encourage each other to create. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a beautiful scene inspired by Hawaii.		Show number 12: Starry Night Mimi visits the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design museum to study the paint strokes of Georges Lemmen and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a scene inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
	Show number 13: Trying Something New Trying something new can be liberating and lots of fun! In this episode, Mimi joins a group of students who are exploring printmaking for the very first time. Back in the studio, Mimi paints a vibrant, tropical scene from the Bahamas.

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