Landscape Painting: Plein Air to Studio

Workshop | This program has been canceled

All Levels

4/22/2019-4/25/2019

9:00 AM-4:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th

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$450.00

This workshop is designed to help students make sense of the chaotic landscape. Since painting is about creating a work of art, learning to interpret what you see and not just copying what you see will be emphasized. Students will learn how to find a subject and then compose and simplify the information. Value, color, and edges will be used as students work towards larger studio paintings. Daily demonstrations by the instructor as well as individual attention will be given. Plein air studies, reference photographs, and sketches will become inspiration for larger studio work. Some experience in plein air is helpful, but there is something for everyone in this workshop. In the event weather prevents outdoor work, photographs will be used. Since painting from life is the intent of the workshop, still life subjects may be employed. www.annlarsen.com

*Portable easel and transportation required

Larsen, Ann

Ann Larsen is an award winning Contemporary Impressionist plein air and studio painter working in oil. She has lived in Oklahoma, New England and Colorado, but currently resides in upstate New York. Ann holds a degree in painting and has studied with well know landscape painters Skip Whitcomb, Frank Serrano and Randall Sexton. Ann is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of American, American Impressionist Society and a Master Signature Member of American Women Artists. Larsen thinks landscape painting is about making a solid, simplified statement by distilling down the chaos of the subject. She says that working from nature is both exciting and challenging, but ultimately there is a dichotomy between painting and creating a work of art. Having done hundreds of sketches and oil studies in the field, she says the final statements are made in the studio.