Maddine Insalaco and Joe Vinson
Introduction to Plein Air Painting in Oil
June 21-22
Monday & Tuesday,
10:00 am – 4:30 PM
Fee: $290
Instructors present each day
Enrollment limited to 15 students
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The qualities of fugitive light and shifting atmospheric conditions in the landscape make “plein air” the most challenging type of painting. The need to work quickly requires that the technique and approach adopted be distinct from studio painting. This short workshop will focus on the formal elements of spatial construction in a carefully observed landscape. Students will be shown how to analyze natural space in terms of light (value) and air (atmospheric perspective). The technical method introduced will derive from the 18th-century open air tradition in the sequence of paint application and use of paper as a surface but will stress contemporary abstract principles of color contrasts to create form and space within a composition.
Image: Maddine Insalaco, Civita Castellana, 2020, Oil on linen, 7” x 10”