Plein Aire Landscape Painting
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Jan 16-Feb 20, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
on Sat
Tuition: $270.00
Level: BEG-ADV
Status: This program is completed
Visual Poetry is what plein aire is all about. The exhilaration that comes from expressing the emotions you feel about your subject matter. Painting on location is all about simplification and control. This class teaches high percentage success ratio techniques. A simple series of steps help you to turn out a successful painting more often. Some of the main points stressed will be on variety in all aspects of the painting to create interest, controlling values and intensities with proper relationships to each other in order to create atmospheric perspective, and how to finish a painting by knowing where it is going from the start. It is the “Design that makes the painting, NOT the subject matter” will be the motto. Contact instructor about outdoor materials, before you buy.
Instructor -- James Coulter
James Coulter received a BFA in oil painting from Arizona State University, and later graduated from the Certified Teaching program at the University of Phoenix. Awards include: Southwest Art Emerging Artist Award at the Sonoran Arts Show in 2004, the Phippen Museum Foundation Award for museum quality work in 2000, and he has had his work has been published numerous times in Southwest Art Magazine. Life and art have long merged into one for James. His priorities are now based on the enjoyment and challenge that comes from chasing a passion. It is that continuous search for inspiration in art and life that keeps James going.
- OIL PAINTS: Ultramarine Blue; Rembrandt Permanent Red Medium or any brand Cadmium Red Light; Cadmium Yellow Light; Titanium White ; A small tube of Black.; A waterproof paint bag.; LARGE inexpensive tubes recommended
- OIL BRUSHES: A few large bristle brushes (8 - 10); A few mid sized (2 - 6) Flats or Brights; A brush carrier.
- PANELS: Small canvas panels no larger than 12x16 (6x8 and 8x19 preferred); A wet panel carrier
- MISCELLANEOUS: Sketching equipment: Copy paper with clip board is fine, soft lead pencil, eraser. No little sketch books or pens.
- An outdoor easel set up (I recommend my “Coulter Plein Air System“, sold at the Scottsdale Art School) comes with palette.
- A LARGE painting palette (not paper) recommend a piece of ¼” birch plywood 18x24.
- Palette knives
- Odorless mineral spirits (a quart or gallon)
- Brush cleaning container (recommend a medium size waterproof metal container with hanging handle)
- Paper towels
- Wide brimmed hat
- Sun Screen
- Bug repellent
- Some sort of back pack or bag to carry all supplies.
- Viewfinder