A FIGURE AND PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The two main objectives of this 3 day workshop is first and foremost developing stronger shape concepts, gestural interpretation (remember gesture is felt more than seen) and your visual language (your visual marks and what do they mean in relationship to graphic description). Second to push the sophistication and completeness of your paintings and remember realist painting and drawing is a total improvisational i.e. like jazz you are always working from the seat of your pants.

PLEIN AIRE WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this two day workshop are three. To improve the students ability to isolate and frame their desired focus of interest from their complex visual field; and help the student to bring more understanding and clarity to the process of translating their focus of interest from the visual field to the picture plane. The main component in this process is the "lay-in" which will be our main focus; and lastly to bring the "lay-in" to a point of finish i.e. finishing wet into wet (oil painting).

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 2010

Rip Caswell Gallery: Troutdale, OR Augusut 6-8 2010 "Drawing What You See"

Keizer Art Association: “Plein Air Landscape Painting” June 26 and 27 2010.

Dahmen Barn,Union WA, “Drawing the Head” Sept 18,19, 2010

Kings Cottage SLC, UT “Figure and Portrait Painting” Sept 30, Oct 1,2, 2010

Crossroards Art Center Baker City, OR “Drawing What You See” Oct. 15-17 2010

Plein Aire Painting Workshop' Wenatcee Museum Aug 28-29 2010

Wenatchee Valley Museum & Culture Center Wenatchee, WA Aug 29-30 2010

Emerald Art Association OR “Responsive Figure Drawing” Nov 1-3 2010

Art in the Mountains, Mehama,OR “Oil-Figures in Landscape” Aug 22-26 2010