Plein Air Painting Classes & Workshops

 

 

EN PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE

PAINTING WORKSHOP with Sean Beavers is a 4 Day Intensive, Friday - Monday, June 19 - 22.  Each session will be split into two parts, an in-studio discussion of materials and techniques, and painting on location in the seacoast area. Students will need a portable easel, painting supplies, drinking water, food and sun protection.            

 

 

 

SKETCHBOOK WONDER with 
Bill Paarlberg, is a 6 week class on
Tuesdays, 9- 12, beginning June 16. In this class you will learn to draw faster and better, to use thumbnails and value studies to improve your work, and, whatever media you work in, to capture scenes in your sketchbook. You’ll visit beaches, working waterfronts, historic mansions, gardens, and private oceanfront estates not open to the public.  

   

TREES & ROCKS: PAINTING THE COASTAL LANDSCAPE with
Joshua Langstaff

3 Days, Friday, Saturday & Sunday July 17, 18

& 19, 10 – 4 

Join us for a three-day plein air painting workshop set on a remarkable private estate on the Maine coast. With access to rocky shoreline, wooded groves, and expansive gardens, we’ll have a wide range of compelling subjects to explore. Focusing on trees and rocks, this course emphasizes approaching the landscape through clear, specific points of interest. 

 

 Studio Seashore & Ocean Workshops & Classes

 

 

 

Two Sanctuary Arts instructors are offering seashore and ocean workshops and classes in two different mediums. Carol Ann Morley’s Treasures from the Seashore; Drawing with Colored Pencils is a 4 week class meeting Wednesday afternoons from July 15 through August 5. Carol invites you to bring the seashore inside and have fun drawing sea shells, stones, seaweed and beach treasures. Learn how to create a colored palette to bring your images to life and create a compelling composition. 

 

  

 

Margaret Dwyer offers a one session Gifts from the Ocean- Cool Watercolor Techniques (SA 9) workshop on Saturday June 6. Her workshop highlights the  technique of glazing, layering transparent paint to create depth and unique, luminous colors. Learn to save whites (and “lights”) including the use of masking fluid, as you focus on ocean treasures such as shells, rocks, fish, seaweed and sea creatures.

      

Hand Carving: Wood or Soft Stone

(SA 16)  

Antoinette Schultze offers a 6 week Saturday class at her Eliot studio. Students will learn to visualize and trust what they see as they learn to block out the object of choice in Wood/or Stone.  

 

 

 

Introducing New Instructor: 

Robert LaBranche

  

Robert Labranche will be teaching Monotype & the Abstract Landscape (SA 8) for 4 Weeks on Thursday afternoons from June 18 – July 9. Robert has an MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire and is a former Adjunct Instructor of Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design, and at The University of New Hampshire.  Robert’s studio practice includes painting - in both oils and acrylics, monotype, and woodcut printmaking. Monotype is a way of making a unique print by pressing paper against a painted or inked surface.  Monotype lends itself to playful experimentation and abstraction, and to drawing and painting simultaneously onto the working surface. With the landscape as subject, students may use photographs and sketches to explore expressive and gestural means of making images. In addition to the basic technical aspects of learning monotype, students will explore making dynamic compositions derived from observing the landscape, allowing space for the unexpected outcomes that often result from the monotype process.  

 

 

 

Learn how to approach portrait painting in oils with confidence and clarity in Joshua Langstaff’s Portrait Painting from the Heart (SA 6) 8 week class on Tuesday evenings in June and July. Create a meaningful, lifelike portrait, working from a reference of your choosing. You’ll learn how to take and select strong reference images using a live model, and how to translate those references into a clear, dimensional painting. Joshua is a master portrait painter who is able to pass on his expertise in a clear and structured process, including drawing, proportion, underpainting, and flesh tone development. He also offers his popular Fur Real: Animal Portraits in Oil (SA 12) 3 day workshop on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday June 12 – 14. 

 

 

 

  

Jewelry!

Alice Carroll offers an eight week Intro to Jewelry (SA 13) beginner class on basic jewelry making techniques. Alice covers traditional techniques and their variations, with some helpful bench tips. Through demonstrations and lots of time to work, students will learn basic techniques such as sawing, soldering, riveting, forging, forming, and stone setting. Alice is also offering two workshops, Spinner Ring (SA 14) and Fisherman's Knot Bracelet (SA 15)