Workshop: Haysville, NC – October 2013

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  • Mountain Arts Association sponsored event
  • Learn more-Register:  Great Artists’ Retreats
  • Natural Painting in Oils with John Mac Kah
  • October 14 – 18, 2013
  • Tuition fee: $259.

Experience and capture the fall color in the mountains using layering of colors, rich in oil and varnish mediums to create maximum depth and control in response to our vibrant autumnal palette.

Employing methods and recipes of Florentine and Flemish masters, the student will develop an understanding of how to use oils to their full advantage. We will be using traditional materials provided by instructor, including mediums, prepared panels, paper, and canvas. Using a three-step process: toning the foundation, under-painting and over-painting to gain rich depth of color and luminosity in your paintings.

Instructor demos, discussion, and plein-air on location, weather permitting. Workshop: Mountain Arts Association hosts this workshop out of a private studio in Hayesville, NC in the Tusquitee Valley, at the peak of the fall color season, October 14-19,  2013. Three day painting intensive in oils.Tuition: $259. Catered lunch. Lodging and accommodations arrangements available. Materials list provided on registration.

Asheville Workshop Schedule

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Special effects...sky & trees

Make it Real!  Studio Workshops Here in Asheville     

Learn more about these special techniques in oils

  • Studio Composition
  • Nature’s Texture
  • Painting Atmosphere
  • Expedition to Cold Mountain
  • Color, Paint & Pigments

Join me for one or a series of weekend painting workshops in my studio or on location. These are affordable and convenient classes here in Asheville beginning in March.

Summer workshop studentView the schedule and descriptions with information on how to sign-up. These are small classes for 6 to 8 people and are in my studio. Easels are available. You can bring your lunch (we have a limited kitchen, coffee, microwave) or take time to visit local area restaurant.  One class will be a special expedition to paint Cold Mountain.

Please contact me if you have questions or need more information.

 

 

Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC

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Along with Ben Long and other faculty members of the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, I will be  exhibiting work in their fundraising event sponsored by the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. Pass this along to friends in Charleston.

Luce et Colore

Feb 10-12, 2012

Opening: Friday night

Noon – 7pm Saturday

Noon – 5pm Sunday Sunday

FALC faculty work will be displayed at the home – studio of Jill Hooper, a guest teacher at FALC here in Asheville. The artists will all donate a percentage of sales to benefit  the  Gibbes Museum of Art’s fund-raising campaign.

Artists along with Jill Hooper will  include: Ben Long, John Dempsey, Roger Nelson, Michael Smith, Rebecca King, JP Sullivan, Nick Raynolds and Christopher Holt.  I will have three pieces on exhibit.

Jill Hooper’s  studio is located at 13 Broadstreet, Charelston, SC:  2nd floor, between Oak Restaurant and East Bay Street.