Simplify the Landscape: Light and Shadow
Adult Online Art | Available
ONLINE on Zoom | November 12,19 & 26th, 2025 | 10am-1pm Arizona Time (*always on Mountain Standard Time) | Recording available for 2 months
Move between representation and abstraction with award-winning artist Anton Nowels. Attain an understanding of how to simplify the landscape with a focus on Light and Shadow. Artists’ will discover that using the notan and color contrast speeds up the painting process both in the studio and en plein air. The workshop will include discussions of artist using both plein air and abstraction in their work including: Sergei Bongart, Maynard Dixon, Franz Kline, Monet, Josef Albers, Joan Mitchell and More. Anton will demonstrate his studio approach. All levels welcome. Medium: All 2-D mediums (instructor will teach in oils.)
Day 1: Design - Notan, Intervals, Tonal Plans
Day 2: Color - Contrast and Harmony & Building a Palette
Day 3: Interpretation - Memory and Deconstruction
Anton Nowels
Anton Nowels has exhibited both representational and abstract work in Arizona and Southern Utah. Recently his work was juried into the American Impressionist Society’s 20th Annual National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York. Nowels is a two-time Guest Artist at the Thunderbird Foundation’s Maynard Dixon Country event in Mt. Carmel, Utah. In 2019 he was the best in show winner at the Arizona Plein Air Painters juried members show. In 2017, Anton won First Place at the Bisbee Plein Air Festival. He was the Second Place winner at the prestigious Scottsdale Artists’ School’s Best and Brightest Show in 2018. Additionally, Anton won Second Place in the Sonoran Plein Air Festival’s inaugural show in 2018.
Nowels has been practicing art since 2000 and had his first solo show at age 24 on Grand Avenue in Downtown Phoenix. In 2007, he was juried into a solo exhibition at Burton Barr Public Library’s Central Gallery. Nowels continued to show work in downtown Phoenix in several locations, including the Herberger Theater Center and First Studios, before returning to Arizona State University to finish his BA in 2008. His work is experimental by nature and is reflective of his Interdisciplinary Art and Performance degree.
His goal is to develop outdoor paintings using the Impressionists’ approaches taught by Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche, and Sergei Bongart. Nowels is a workshop Instructor at Scottsdale Artists’ School, an Associate Member of Oil Painters of America, a member of the American Impressionist Society, and a Juried Member of Arizona Plein Air Painters.