Upcoming Workshops – At A Glance

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MULTI-DAY WORKSHOPS

Watercolor Simplified, Saturday & Sunday, May 18 & 19, 2013, Cranford, NJ - Download Class Information and Registration Form here. This class meets at the The Artist Framer, 7 North Avenue East, Cranford, New Jersey.  For information, directions, etc. contact The Artist Framer, at theartistframer@hotmail.com or by phone : (908) 931-1133.  This is my most popular watercolor workshop and is suitable anyone who wants to get a good handle on this unique and beautiful medium. Over the course of two days, we’ll cover the fundamental elements of successful watercolor painting, including the “secret” to create glowing, transparent washes, mixing the color you want every time, understanding  tonal value and value structure and planning your painting for success.  Class Fee $185

Watercolor – Master the Medium, Saturday & Sunday, June 15 & 16, 2013 – Geneva, NY - Download Workshop Information and Registration Form here.  This class meets at the Billsboro Winery, 4760 West Lake Road (Route 14), Geneva, NY.   Get a good handle on the fundamentals of this beautiful medium in this two day watercolor workshop.  The unique characteristic of watercolor is its transparency, which is a result of light bouncing off the paper and back through the layers of color.  Maintaining this unique property is easy once the basic working characteristics and processes are understood. In this weekend long workshop, you’ll learn and practice the simple techniques and skills that will enable you to master the watercolor medium.   Class fee $185

Sketching & Painting The Outdoor Landscape, Saturday & Sunday, July 27 & 28, 2013, North Bennington, VT - Download Class Information and Registration Form here. This class is designed to ease you into the art and unique experience of  painting  “en plein air” – both the pleasures and the challenges. We’ll begin by learning to use our sketchbooks to record the impression of the landscape and to quickly capture changing light effects, since the changes in the intensity and quality of light during the course of a summer or autumn afternoon can be very dramatic.  From there we’ll move on to more ambitious paintings of the plein air landscape.  We’ll focus on the skills and techniques needed to and to make plein air paintings successful in varied conditions.  Class Fee $185

Wet into Wet Watercolor, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, August 13, 14, & 15, 2013, Gibson House B&B, Haverhill, New Hampshire - Download Class Information and Registration Form here. This is an extended, three-day session of one of my most popular workshops! Wet-in-wet watercolor is one of the most basic and yet most beautiful techniques and produces a look that is impossible in any other medium.  This class will teach you the basic techniques and how to use them to produce loose, flowing washes while still retaining control over shapes.  As a bonus, the class will have the effect of loosening up the look of your paintings and give you confidence and courage in your watercolor work!   Class Fee $275

Sketching & Painting The Outdoor Landscape, Saturday & Sunday, September 28 & 29, 2013, 2013, North Bennington, VT - Download Class Information and Registration Form here
This class is designed to ease you into the art and unique experience of  painting  “en plein air” – both the pleasures and the challenges. We’ll begin by learning to use our sketchbooks to record the impression of the landscape and to quickly capture changing light effects, since the changes in the intensity and quality of light during the course of a summer or autumn afternoon can be very dramatic.  From there we’ll move on to more ambitious paintings of the plein air landscape.  We’ll focus on the skills and techniques needed to and to make plein air paintings successful in varied conditions.  Class Fee $185

DAY CLASSES 

“Creating Your Own Original Greeting Cards with Watercolor” – Thursdays 11-12:30, May 2, 9, 16, 23.  OFFERED AT EQUINOX VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, MANCHESTER, VERMONT.  CLASSES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. CLASSES RUN REGULARLY ON THURSDAY MORNINGS.

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Learn to create fun, compelling and unique greeting cards. You’ll learn easy methods and simple watercolor techniques that can be used over and over to make your own original cards.  Class Fee – $50   Materials Fee — $10

 NEW – Sketching and Painting the Outdoor Landscape – Wednesday mornings, 9am – noon, July 10, 17, 24,31 & Aug 7, 2013.   Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.   Class offered through IS183 of Stockbridge MA. Register for this class through IS183 – click here to go to their website.

This five week class is designed to ease you into the art of “plein air” painting.  What exactly is plein air painting?  “En plein air” is a French phrase meaning simply, “in the open air”.  Landscape painters have long painted outdoors but painting in natural light became especially important to painters of the Barbizon School and others in mid-19^th Century France.  The tradition was learned by 19^th century American painters including those of the Hudson River School.  George Inness, a well-known and important American painter of the late 19^th Century was influenced by both the Barbizon and Hudson River painters and adopted the habit of painting “en plein air”.  The plein air painting tradition continued with other American painters in the early 20^th century, particularly those of the realist movements. One of the most important of these was Edward Hopper who painted en plein air in both watercolor and oil.  The work of both Inness and Hopper will be on exhibit at the Clark Art Institute during at the time of this class.  Click here to download an information flyer.