Jack Richeson
and Company, Inc.
Fine Art Materials
557 Marcella Street,
Kimberly, WI
1-800-233-2404
557 Marcella Street,
Kimberly, WI
1-800-233-2404
Not for the faint of heart! This workshop will be a unique combination of in–studio instruction and independent or small group field (plein air) work. Composition, instructor and selfcritique, color harmony, brushwork, edges, developing a personal point of view and enlarging a field study into a studio painting will all be explored. Any medium is welcome! Demos will be directed at oil painters, but concepts would apply to other media. This workshop is open to painters of all levels, but those with some experience would benefit most.
More about the workshop from Dawn:
“Some landscape classes that I have been a part have been frustrating to me because the best hours to paint outside are not the hours that the class meets.”
“Monday morning we’ll meet in the classroom for a demo and lecture. Lunch, more instruction, and get your ‘assignment’ for Monday evening/Tuesday morning. About 3:00 students will go out to several locations to paint with at least one other class member. I will go to one of the locations and paint, but not go from easel to easel with a critique. Students should have time to paint two studies, one in the evening and one the following morning. In the morning, we’ll meet back at the studio at about 11:00 and each painting will get a one on one critique. There will be exercises for students to work on while I critique each painting.
“The reason I think that the easel to easel critique out in the field is not effective is that there is only about 1½ to two hours to be spent on a plein air sketch. The light moves so fast. The concentration of the painter is intense and should not be broken. I want the students to have ownership of their paintings.”
“After students have several sketches, we will use the middle part of the day to begin translating one of their sketches to a larger ‘studio’ painting. One of the days, we will all go out together to one location and paint.”
The hours will be long for both Instructor and students but you WILL learn a lot from one of the country’s best Artist/Instructors. It will be a week you’ll never forget!
Dawn Whitelaw maintains a studio at “The Factory” in Franklin, Tennessee. The opportunity to paint landscape plein air with colleagues from Alla Prima International and The Cumberland Society of Painters adds richness and honesty to her studio work. For over twenty five years she taught basic principles of oil painting as an adjunct instructor at David Lipscomb University. She credits the community of teachers and students around her for both her success and growth as an artist. Among her influential teachers are Scott Christensen, Cedric Egeli and Jim Pollard, but most of her instruction and inspiration comes from nationally preeminent artist Everett Raymond Kinstler. She considers one of her career highlights to be juried into two sessions at the Santa Fe Institute of art with Kinstler as the instructor.
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