SEDONA ARIZONA
The Plein Air Landscape:
“Practical Advice to Better Your Landscape Painting”
Sedona, AZ October 17-19
3 Days
Price: 450.00
Max Enrollment: 15
Contact: Joshua Been (719) 221-8964 or Vince Fazio (928) 282-3809
click HERE to sign up through the Sedona Art Center website.
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:
Wednesday October 17
9:00 Meet at Sedona Art Center (SAC).
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 Sedona.
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 SAC 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 Sedona. 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.
Thursday October 18: “START TO FINISH TIMED”
9:00am meet at SAC.
9-9:30 carpool/convoy to a destination around Sedona.
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 SAC and carpool/convoy to a destination around Sedona. 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.
Friday October 19: “START TO FINISH and ENLARGE FIELD STUDIES TO LARGER CANVASES”
9:00am meet at SAC.
9-9:30 carpool/convoy to a destination around Sedona.
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
1:00-4:30 Meet back at SAC for the demo in the studio of blowing up the field study to a large canvas.
4:30-5:00 Question, Answer, and Critique session.
We will meet at SAC and carpool/convoy to a destination around Sedona. The last day 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. After a lunch break we’ll meet back at SAC to enlarge a field study in the studio.
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:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Medium
Burnt Sienna
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Dioxizine Purple
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