SALIDA COLORADO

The Plein Air Landscape:
“Practical Advice to Better Your Landscape Painting”
Salida, CO October 2-5
4 Days
Price: 550.00
Max Enrollment: 10
Contact: Joshua Been (719) 221-8964

In this workshop, through clearly explaining concepts, using a very intuitive and simple limited palette, multiple demonstrations, and individual attention, I will clear up some of the mystery in the process and language of painting. I teach a 4 pronged approach that is both easy to remember and an effective way of breaking down difficult subject matter in to manageable visual information on the picture plane. SHAPES, VALUES, EDGES, and TEXTURE are the four prongs from which all visual information can be organized. I will help you comprehend the relationships in your VALUES which includes all of the COLOR elements. We will talk about the importance of SHAPE to design, believability, readability, perspective, and how see and understand EDGES and their relative importance. I will show you some different ways of applying paint in order to juxtapose TEXTURE and brush effects. I am careful to give each student “effective” time allowing for students of various abilities to benefit greatly.

Day Planner:
Tuesday, October 2
9:00 Meet at Virtuosity Gallery (204 North F Street, Salida, CO 81201).
9-10:30 Overview of SHAPES, VALUES, EDGES, and TEXTURE as well as discussion of the various art definitions, relationships, etc. Also a color mixing demonstration.
10:30-11:00 Carpool/convoy to a destination around Salida.
11:00-12:30  Demonstration.
12:30-1:00 lunch break (sack lunches; not provided)
1:00-5:00 Group painting session, I will be helping individually.

We will meet at Virtuosity Gallery where I will do a quick demonstration on color mixing and color relationships and talk about design, values, edges, and the importance of shape to composition.   We’ll then carpool/convoy to a destination around Salida.  I’ll do another demonstration, this time of the location. We’ll break for a lunch (please bring a sack lunch) and continue. After lunch everyone will work on a painting of their own choice while I walk around and work with each person individually. This will go on to 5:00 pm.

Wednesday, October 3: “START TO FINISH TIMED”
9:00am meet at Virtuosity Gallery.
9-9:30 carpool/convoy to a destination around Salida.
9:30-10:00 Painting Demo start to finish with Timer.
10:00-12:30  Group Painting sessions with TIMER and me walking around helping individually.
12:30-1:00 lunch break (sack lunches; not provided)
1:00-3:00  Demo and TIMED group painting with me walking around for individual attention .
3:00-5:00 Larger painting session (please nothing larger than 11×14)

We will meet at Virtuosity Gallery and carpool/convoy to a destination around Salida.  I will do a demonstration with a timer, a small canvas, a big brush, and a pallet knife. The timer is meant to loosen people up, forget detail and focus only on the effects of light.  After the Demo, everyone will pick out their spots and paint start to finish with 20 min. on the timer. Work small, no larger than 6X8 please. We’ll continue 20 min. sessions until lunch. We’ll take a lunch break(please bring a sack lunch). After lunch we’ll repeat the morning timed activities until 3pm. At 3pm we’ll work on a larger painting (no larger than 11×14 please) and do this painting until the end of the day.

Thursday, October 4: “START TO FINISH”
9:00am meet at Virtuosity Gallery.
9-9:30 carpool/convoy to a destination around Salida.
9:30-10:30 Painting Demo start to finish.
10:30-12:30 Group Painting session with me walking around helping individually.
12:30-1:00 lunch break (sack lunches; not provided)
1:00-3:00  Demo and TIMED group painting with me walking around for individual attention .
3:00-5:00 Larger painting session (please nothing larger than 11×14)

We will meet at Virtuosity Gallery and carpool/convoy to a destination around Salida. We’ll work on some AM field study work and I’ll be walking around to give assistance where needed. I’ll also demo again if there is interest. Usually by this time of the workshop, students know my teaching style and like me to work on that which suits their individual needs best. From 3-5pm we’ll work on another larger painting (not larger than 11×14 please)

Friday, October 5: ” ENLARGING PAINTING DEMO and IN DEPTH STUDIO/DESIGN LESSON”
9:00am meet at Virtuosity Gallery.
9-12:30 Enlargement of field study along with in depth studio painting and design lessons.
12:30-1:00 lunch break
1:00-4:30 Continue on enlargement demonstration and design lessons.
4:30-5:00 Question, Answer, and Critique session.

We’ll meet at Virtuosity Gallery and I’ll be spending the day demonstrating the enlargement of a field study. I’ll talk at length about designing the canvas to accommodate a pleasant viewers experience.

Paper towels (Viva brand works great)

Brush cleaner jar with agitator (a jar needs something to scrub the bristles on, that’s the agitator. A spring, or piece of hardware cloth folded up in the bottom works great.)

Odorless paint thinner (I recommend Sunnyside or Gamsol brand)

15 6×8 canvases or panels for the field timed studies.

3 8x10s or 11x14s for longer field studies.

A Portable Easel (I have one available called the “Prolific Easel”. To check it out click HERE)

Brimmed Hat (painting Back or even Side Light is nearly impossible with out one)

Sunscreen

Bugspray

Paint: (I recommend Utrecht brand oil paint)
Titanium White

Cadmium Yellow Lemon

Cadmium Orange

Cadmium Red Medium

Burnt Sienna

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Dioxizine Purple

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