Painting Intensive
Youth Teens | Available
Learn the basics of oil painting during an intensive two-week painting course! Through exercises in observation, both from life and reference images, this camp will tackle value, composition, form, and color in paint. Students will learn the fundamentals of color theory and how apply them to achieve their individual painting goals. Instructors with both contemporary and classical painting backgrounds will teach various brush and paint handling techniques to help students develop their own personal artistic styles! This intensive will also offer figure painting sessions from a model for students to further hone their skills. All experience levels are welcome!
Erin Besch
Erin Besch is a painter and multidisciplinary artist who recently completed her MFA in Studio Art at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. Besch's work delves into the concept of 'place' as a pivotal element in anchoring memories and shaping individual and collective identities. Through her paintings, landscapes become not just physical representations but also reflections of her emotional and psychological connection to them. Besch holds an MA in Art Education from the University of Florida and a certificate from the Kang O’Higgins Atelier at Gage
Academy of Art, Seattle, Washington, both earned in 2022. She completed her undergraduate studies with a BS in Psychology and a BA in Visual Arts from Union College in Schenectady, NY, in 2019.