PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN PASTEL OR OIL
August 18-22, 2008
Michael Chesley Johnson, PSA, PANM
In this week-long plein air landscape workshop, Michael demonstrates a variety of materials and techniques and explores methods for abstracting the landscape with intuitive, expressive color. Each day starts with a lecture and demonstration, followed by plenty of time for student work. Michael gives personal attention at the easel, complete with helpful tips and suggestions. Each day will end with a critique. He covers plein air equipment and techniques and shares his expertise for successful outdoor painting. He teaches you how to mass the landscape into value groups and to use this as a foundation for your work. He covers the uses of local and reflected colour, and shows how you can achieve believable landscapes through atmosphere, colour harmony and dominances. Weather permitting, the class will paint on-location, otherwise be prepared to paint from photos in the studio. We'll paint all day, so bring a bag lunch. The workshop is for every level of student, from beginner to advanced in Pastel or Oil.
Fee: $375 plus HST Member / $400 plus HST Non Member
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Michael Chesley Johnson
Michael Chesley Johnson is a Signature Member of Plein Air New Mexico and Pastel Society New Mexico, and a juried member of Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, the Pastel Society of America, and Pastel Artists Canada, among others. He has exhibited his award-winning work in many venues, and it has appeared in American Artist and Plein Air Magazine. Noted for his expressive, intuitive use of colour and his ability to talk about the act of painting in easy-to-understand terms, Michael has become a popular teacher who gives workshops across the country. He is represented in New Mexico by Benson Fine Art in San Patricio and Cloudcroft Gallery & Gifts in Cloudcroft; in Colorado by the Ago Gallery in Ouray; and by the Ridgehouse Gallery in Lubec, Maine. Michael lives and paints in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico and on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada.
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