UPCOMING! 2025 – Febuary 21 – 22 – Friday/Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pM

Materials Classes – DIY Prepare Your Own Panels, Paper and Mediums
Learn to prepare panels, linen over panel,  and prepared paper with traditional gesso for oils. What every painter should know about paint, brushes, supports, grounds, and mediums.

Go home with recipes, panels and mediums. Demos on applications and best use. Bring your lunch. Coffee/tea/water available.

• Easels, natural lighting (north light) and daylight fixtures.
• Bring your lunch and beverage. Coffee, tea, water on hand.
• Bring your own paint, brushes. We can provide solvents, mediums, and panels.
• Some workshops require additional studio materials fees.
• Materials list provided on registration. Instruction in primarily in use of oils
• Private instruction available.
• Let’s talk, daytime, evening, weekend slots available.

Weekend Workshop. 10 am – 5 pm  $350.

Demos and Discussion Topics include: Under-painting (imprimatur), seasonal pallets, composition, atmosphere in landscape, glazing, and layering, making panels, finishing, framing.

Preparation for studio and plein-air using traditional materials: oil-rich mediums, painting on panel, and natural grounds.  Topics may include layering, glazing, foliage, atmosphere, reflections, building sky,  texture, and more.

Ongoing instruction – In studio and on location

 Plein Air – Weather permitting…if not, we meet in the studio…on location area gardens, parkway, fields, mountains, waterfalls, lakes. 10 am – 4 pm.

 Color & Atmosphere: Phenomenal Painting & Special Effects
Learn to add atmosphere to your paintings to capture natural phenomena fog, mist, reflections, rain, shadows, and snow using a tonalist approach to oils. TBA 3 Days

Studio Composition   This class is to prepare the student to work and make decisions on location by building skills.  Prior planning in the studio can ground students before they attempt to take on plein-air work.  Ongoing.

Keeping Color Clear & Bright  Class and demonstration of ways to keep color bright, using oil-rich mediums, varnish, and layering with traditional materials of oil painting to achieve rich and luminous colors. Special class with materials available for purchase.

Natural Textures-Bring Them to Life   One of the challenges of painting nature is rendering texture in a convincing manner…bark, fur, grass, foliage, foreground…to produce natural patterns quickly and realistically based on observation of pattern and form. If you are interested in painting wildlife, birds, or family pet, this class will help you bring your painting to life.  We will be working on texture studies from still-life setups.