Action is gearing up for this year’s Gloucester Arts Festival, which will be held throughout June, and registration is now open for a demonstration and workshop by award-winning artist Robert Johnson of Vienna, Virginia.

Johnson will give a demonstration on painting a still life and conduct a workshop on color and composition from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, at Holly Knoll, home of The Gloucester Institute, 6498 Allmondsville Road, Gloucester.

The morning session will consist of a two- to three-hour demonstration, after which there will be a quick lunch (ordered in advance). During the afternoon session, students will do their own painting with assistance from Johnson.

Johnson said he has a firm idea of how his next oil painting will turn out from the moment he applies the first brushstrokes to one of his “meticulously prepared canvasses or boards.”

“I know at the outset how I want it to look,” he said. “I establish the basic mood and color scheme right at first,...