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2011-2012 Workshops
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Still Life to Landscape with Jeanette LeGrue
March 26 - 30, 2012
TUITION: $ 575
Join award-winning artist and gifted teacher Jeanette Le Grue for this 5-day workshop (3 days still life, 2 days plein air). The goal of this workshop is for you to learn and practice principles and techniques that will enable you to become a better plein air painter... Click date of workshop for more information |
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Plein Air Painting in Oils with Jennifer McChristian
April 2 - 6, 2012
$ 600
Join this award-winning California artist to learn how to interpret nature in terms of paint, using light and color to create form. The aim of this workshop is to teach you to think, see, and express light and form...
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All Media Plein Air Workshop with Michael Chesley Johnson
Apr 9-12, 2012
$ 450
In this workshop for all levels, Michael will work with each student individually in the medium of the student's choosing. Learn to work quickly and effectively - making the world your studio. Demonstrations will be in oil and pastel...
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Painting the Landscape with Michael Workman
April 23 - 27, 2012
TUITION: $ 850
For Michael Workman, the act of painting usually starts with an emotional response to the landscape and is ultimately completed by the viewers through their emotional responses to the painting. A delicate balance is achieved in his paintings between realism and abstraction... Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Plein Air Painting with Jill Carver
May 7 – 11, 2012
$ 600
Join award-winning artist and popular instructor, Jill Carver, in this five-day plein-air painting workshop. Jill will focus on teaching you how to break down the process of producing a painting into its core components – identifying a motif, selecting a design to complement that motif, identifying main masses, observing and...Click date of workshop for more information. |
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The Perceptual Moment with Stuart Shils
May 15 -17, 2012
$ 850
This workshop will concentrate on deepening and cultivating our visual sensitivity by looking critically at nature and painting with the loaded brush - aspiring to broad yet particular summations of form, naturalistic color and clarified visual mood...Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Plein Air Painting in Oils with William Scott Jennings
May 19 - 21, 2012
$ 450
Paint in the magic landscape of the Sedona desert. William Scott Jennings, a master plein air artist, will demonstrate his outdoor painting techniques and design concepts. Demonstrations will offer students an in-depth look into the artist's thought process and the technical applications needed to become proficient in plein air painting... Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Creating Effective Illusions with Joshua Been
October 17 - 19, 2012
$ 450
Joshua Been will clarify the mystery of creating effective illusions in the context of plein air painting. Through demonstration and one-on-one attention, the goal will be to comprehend the relationships between VALUES, the importance of SHAPE and design and how to see and execute differences in EDGES....Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Creating Beautiful Outdoor Pastel with Bruce Gomez
October 17 - 19, 2012
$ 450
Bruce Gomez is known for capturing the sparkling beauty of nature with the immediacy of pastels. Students will learn to choose an appropriate paper and apply the lessons of building a pastel painting while working from life in the beautiful Sedona landscape... Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Pochade Sketching with
Kath Macaulay
October 17 - 19, 2012
TUITION: $ 350
Is getting started scary? Does carrying everything keep you from painting/sketching? Whether you're a raw beginner or a professional, Pocket Sketching is for you. The format is only 4 x 6 inches and can go anywhere. When you're working, everything fits in your "personal space". In a café, on the subway, on a horse, who's to notice but you?...
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Painting the Sedona Landscape with Kathryn Stats (Keynote speaker for SPAF2012)
October 24 - 26, 2012
$ 600
Kathryn Stats is one of the most sought after instructors in plein air painting. She is known for her beautiful color and brushwork that bring her stunning compositions to life.
This workshop is for those with some experience in landscape painting who wish to focus on issues particular to plein air painting in oils. Focus issues will be the selection of the subject, design of the canvas and blocking in of values... Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Architectural Plein Air with Larisa Aukon
October 29 - November 2, 2012
$ 575
If old architecture, majestic temples, and picturesque streets fascinate you as an artist, then this weeklong workshop in Sedona is for you!
In addition to the basic principles of painting such as composition, design, values, edges and color, this class will teach you how to paint a credible and convincing architectural motif...Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Plein Air Watercolor Workshop with Tom Lynch
October 29 - 31, 2012
$ 350
Every painter will tell you that an important (and most enjoyable) part of being an artist is to paint outdoors. For centuries many of the world's great artists have painted on-location to capture fleeting moments of exquisite color and light. These artists often translated their sketches in the studio to become the most important works of art... Click date of workshop for more information. |
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Sedona Fall Colors - Watercolor or Oil with Betty Carr
October 29 - November 2, 2012
$ 575
Learn to capture the beauty of light! Betty Carr teaches students to accurately portray the effect of light on any subject, both in oil and in watercolor. Students can work in either medium and will explore a variety of locations in beautiful Sedona. This weeklong workshop begins directly following the 8th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival... Click date of workshop for more information. |
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