Summer Workshop Schedule for 2012

Our summer Plein Air painting workshops are a marvelous way to experience the San Juan Islands through the eyes of an artist. Each painting location presents particular challenges and opportunities. We will visit different sites each day, setting up on location and painting. Pastoral views, island vistas, shorelines, gardens, dockside, and homes of islanders offer exciting places to paint. I teach with oils, however artists of any medium are welcome to join.
Friday evenings will start with chats about materials, demonstrations and painting exercises, a good time for discussion of any art questions. Saturday morning we will head out to begin on location, working with the natural color palette. Sunday, we try new techniques, expanding to be more expressionistic, pushing color and simplifying form. Some concepts we will be covering are how to see a painting on location, sketching an idea, simplifying the idea, establishing the color palette, laying in a composition, setting up a good working palette, mixing paint, ways to apply paint and working with new techniques that can lead to letting exciting things happen on the canvases.
Here are the dates for 2012
JULY......... July 13,14,15
AUGUST........August 10,11,12
SEPTEMBER.....Sept 7,8,9
Click here for more info about materials and photos of previous workshops.
Contact Annie at 360 378 2638 to sign up for workshops or anniehowelladams at gmail.com. Cost for the weekend workshop is $225. Registration is now open.

Final Summer Workshop, Paint the San Juans September 12 & 13

September is my favorite time of year with it's beautiful light. September 12 & 13 will be the last outdoor painting workshop for 2009. We will go out on location and develope our compositions,and then work on a larger canvas. My workshops are open to any media, though I demonstrate in oils. Outdoor or plein air painting lends itself to any medium. With oil paints, a painting is usually completed in 2 to 3 hours.
Demonstration painting from August workshop 15 X 30" oil over black gesso.
Call me at 360 378 2638 or stop by Funk & Junk in Friday Harbor if you would like to sign up. Scroll down to see photos of previous workshops.

July 18 and 19th Workshop filling up August and September Workshop Added

This coming weekend's workshop is filling up. I'm adding a second summer session August 22 and 23, as well as the September 11th and 12th dates. Workshops are open to artists of any level. I demonstrate with oil paint, though artist may work in the medium of their choice. Typically, we go out on location, often a farm followed by a shoreline. I try to pick scenic and diverse locations. There, artists will sketch and paint a completed plein air painting each day. Through out the workshop, I help each artist individually at their easel. Call me at 378 2638 or stop by Funk & Junk for more information.