August Workshop: Paint Me a Picture: The Power of Imagery with Cynthia Owens Begins Mon Aug 3
Join us for this four-week workshop to learn how to paint word pictures that will plunge your readers into your fictional world and make them want to stay. Read on for details and register today!
Paint Me a Picture: The Power of Imagery
Instructor: Cynthia Owens
Start Date: Monday, August 3, 2026
End Date: Friday, August 28, 2026
Location: Hearts Through History Website platform
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: $20 HHRW Members/$30 Non-Members
Register: https://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/portal/course/paint-picture-power-imagery/lessons
About the Workshop
Using imagery in your story brings it to life. It paints pictures in your reader’s mind and allows them to connect with your fictional characters and their world. It’s also one of the strongest literary techniques an author can use.
Paint Me a Picture: The Power of Imagery is a four-week workshop that shows authors how to paint word pictures that will plunge your readers into your fictional world and make them want to stay.
The workshop will cover:
- Lesson One – What is Imagery
- Lesson Two – Types of Imagery
- Lesson Three – Image vs. Description
- Lesson Four – Show-Don’t-Tell
- Lesson Five – Sensory Imagery, Part 1
- Lesson Six – Sensory Imagery, Part II
- Lesson Seven – Kinesthetic Imagery
- Lesson Eight – Organic Imagery.
About the Instructor
I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17th-century “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.
My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII. A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.
I’m the author of The Claddagh Series, The Wild Geese Series, the Irish Hearts Series, and the Children of the Swan Series.
A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.
About our Classes
Hearts Through History workshops are open to everyone. Classrooms remain open for one month afterwards allowing you time to catch up and save any material. All our remaining 2026 courses are open for registration on our Workshops Page.
Questions? Ask them here in the forum or contact Kim at Workshops(at)Heartsthroughhistory.com
Sign up today and join us in August.
Kimberly Pride
Education Chair | Workshop Moderator
Hearts Through History
I'm interested in some of your online workshops, and they state a date but not time. Are these workshops live through zoom or open to take any time in the timeframe? Can someone explain how they work so I can see if I'm available to participate? Also, do they have the coursework available after the date for those who wish to watch without active participation once the dates are over?