Plein Air Workshops - Master Artists

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	Virginia Pendergrass In this workshop, you may choose to paint from live models or still life set-ups, or both, and in the medium (oil or pastel) you prefer. Demonstrations will be in both oil and pastel. You will also be encouraged to "paint from the heart" by recognizing and then developing your own distinct style. Individual attention and personal guidance at your easel throughout each day will address your particular concerns and personal choices and build confidence in your ever-expanding abilities.
	Joseph Paquet "The parade of seasons with their simultaneous, multilayered challenges of drama, value, shape, color and character keep me in a constant state of awe. Anyone who says, 'it's been done before,' has not seen for themselves the changes which take place in a simple field from season to season. The great joy is learning to see subtly. To elevate the common place and make people take another look at what they generally take for granted — that's what interests me."
	Barbara Parish Barbara is a colorist, capturing the essence of my subject with a painterly touch. Watercolor painting En Plein Air is her passion. "The landscape with it shapes, values, and color scheme awakens my creative spirit. I am painting the essence of nature at its best, living, breathing, and growing. The sun moves, shadows change, I have a short time to capture the landscape. Painting on location means putting up with the environment, painting with bugs, rain, wind, and dive-bomber seagulls who steal my brushes."
	Sara Linda Poly Sara teaches plein air painting classes and workshops in Alexandria, Bath County, and Virginia Beach, and on Maryland's Eastern Shore as well as several travel workshops. Sara's students concentrate on simplifying the complex elements found in nature as they produce their plein air paintings. Learning to see differently, students will explore their personal reaction to the landscape. Demonstrations, critiques, personal attention and encouragement are generously given.
	John Pototschnik "I enjoy depicting simple, common, everyday life and its objects as things of beauty and worth. I intend to show the dignity and value of the subjects I paint - just as my artistic influences have. Through continued hard work I want to give to society paintings that transcend the culture and it's ever changing tastes... paintings that speak to the heart."
	Scott Tallman Powers Scott is a board member for the Oil Painters of America, member of The Portrait Society of America, and The American Society of Portrait Artists. Scott is currently working as a professional portrait painter, and he also teaches landscape, and portrait painting at The Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago. Scott is also the founder of "The Plein Air Painters of Chicago" group; a weekly outdoor painting organization.
	Morgan Samuel Price Morgan is an accomplished plein air painter who has been collected by domestic and international collectors and corporations and is exhibited in galleries across the United States. Using nature as her inspiration and primary reference for observing the nuances of light, Morgan creates representational scenes painted with a beautiful sense of design and simplicity. Paintings are started and finished on location with deft brushstrokes and quickly observed sophistication. She presents to us equally well the softness of spring, the sensuousness of summer, the glories of fall and the chilly solitude of winter.
	Camille Przewodek Impressionism, which has come to mean “the effect of light on color,” demands that the artist pay conscious, careful attention to what she sees and how she sees it. Like playing scales on the piano, practice is critical to understanding and expressing both how light creates color and how color notes convey light. Camille struggles against formulas and tries to keep a fresh eye when exploring the color of each scene. That’s why she continually does outdoor studies, and why she stops working on a painting when the light changes, returning to it only when the weather and light conditions are the same.
	Lori Putnam In her European workshop, follow master oil painter and workshop instructor Lori Putnam off the beaten path to the hill town of Cortona, and the surrounding Tuscan landscape. Add strength to your composition, excitement to your brushwork, and learn to see and mix fresh color in the breathtaking light of the Tuscan sun. This workshop will include demonstrations, group work, individual instruction, and critiques. A study guide will also be provided.
	Barry John Raybould Barry is the Educational Director and Chairman of the Virtual Art Academy, a publisher of online self study art tutorials for both artists and collectors. He is also an award-winning artist on the central coast of California. He seeks to convey the mood and atmosphere of natural landscapes using a contemporary fusion of impressionistic and expressionistic elements. A key characteristic of Raybould’s work is his integration of color, design and brushwork to convey a strong sense of mood and feeling in his work.
	Lesley Rich Lesley is a colorist who recreates the landscape and the figure with lavish brush stroke and rich color. "My paintings, even my landscapes, are more about people. Hopefully, they are an honest glimpse into the beauty of people's lives."
	Mark Roberts However beautiful, there is an evocation of loneliness to Mark Roberts' paintings. Roberts offers, "the visual world is beautiful, but fleeting; it is constantly changing, youth fades, seasons change, day turns into night - there is a sadness to this". The artist finds a heightened sense of beauty in the emotions of loneliness and sadness. Indeed, his most powerful works strike a chord with these two universal human emotions.
	Ray Roberts Ray's vibrant use of color, bold textures, and sensitivity to shifting patterns of light give life and movement to his paintings. They are to be experienced, not merely observed. Inspired by such early California impressionists as Hanson Puthuff, William Wendt, and William Ritschel, Ray seeks to capture the luminous, golden light and the magnificent, vanishing landscapes.
	Bob Rohm Bob's style reflects his discovery of the southwest: "Although my work is representational, I simplify textures and surfaces to dramatize planes of light and color. My use of color is impressionistic and expressive. I contrast both hard and soft edges, as well as transparent and opaque paint," he explains. Each painting seems to capture an element beyond reality. Each moves the viewer beyond the subject itself. "A painting fails if it does not induce the viewer to experience some form of emotion, not only about what the subject is but why it is." And while not all of his paintings have a typical southwestern theme, they demonstrate the focus of style which evolved through his realization of the southwestern image: razor-sharp contrasts and vivid colors.
	Marilyn Rose "I am privileged to have as a friend the renowned California Impressionist Karl Albert, who in his youth studied with plein air icons Edgar Payne and Sam Hyde Harris. At 94, Karl is sharp of eye and mind, and he thoroughly enjoys it when I bring him my paintings for a serious critique. He tells me graciously that my color is beautiful and compositions excellent, but often with a gentle suggestion as to how I can improve, which always turns out to be a valued lesson from a respected master. My goal is simply to become the best painter that I can be and to produce quality work that reflects the beauty that I see."
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