2013 Workshop Schedule

Summer schedule July 14 one day August 11 one day, in time for the Fair! September, Weekend, 13,14,15

The Presses are Rolling.....

I've taken a little breather from the Hospital Heritage Mural project to do some linocuts. With not much printing experience, I'm learning something new with each one. All small about 4" x 6"-ish. I've been reading a lot about printmakers over at Linosaurus, well researched blog by Gerrie in Holland.

3 color print

2 color print on chart with color stamps

3 color print

single color on abstracted acrylic+ collage on paper

2 color print with seamless spliced in correction What's next? Reduction Prints, more fishing prints, more printing, more to follow.

Peace Island Hospital Heritage Mural is done, done and done!!! Except for one final piece, so I guess it's not quite done.Finished a few hours before the opening.....with a couple of hours to spare!

New Hospital Mural Design

Working out design ideas for my next mural project for the new hospital here in Friday Harbor. I'll be posting mural panels as they are completed this summer. Here is a scale model of the project, 63 inches which will translate into 63 feet for the finished mural.Lots of painting in my future.....

Painting out on location in the San Juans

Got out on a late spring morning and painted with my friend Dana Nunnelly out at False Bay. There's a great view across to the Olympic Mountains. The weather sits on the straights and the snow capped mountains peak over the top. Low tide at False bay, 7" x 11" Plein air oil.

Mural Panels installed at Roche Harbor

2 big painted panels just went up at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island. Based on historic photos, Here is my interpretation of what the busy harbor might have looked like over 100 years ago. This panel was painted in acrylic with light fast pigments and clear coated, size 5 x 10' Mounted outdoors near the Roche Harbor store.

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.