Sept 12-14 | 10am – 4pm | Steamboat Art Museum
Get yourself ready for the Steamboat Art Museum Plein Air event this September.
Whether you are a participating artist or just want to learn more about painting out
on location, this class will give you those solid basics. This is a fun studio workshop
that will fine tune the invaluable painting skills used for successful plein air painting.
Plein air, ‘in open air,’ painting can be a challenging venture. The class will help you loosen up and
become more spontaneous and expressive with your paint strokes. Often, we paint ‘plein air’ style with
a sense of bravado and then tighten up when we work from a photo inside. During this class we will
use photo references while learning how to treat them as if painting a scene on location. You will learn
to…
• quickly establish a great composition from the vast 360-degree options.
• nail down those basic and correct values in front of you.
• pick up the pace as the sun and elements change.
• practice completing short color studies with colors that sing.
• identify what makes a great reference photo and hot to take them.
While the demos and painting process will be in oils, mediums in acrylic and pastel are also welcome.
This course is designed for all levels of art students.
About
Jeanne Mackenzie is a Colorado resident living in the Fort Collins area. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Teaching Credential from San Diego State University she has enhanced her teaching expertise with a Masters of Education/Adult Education from Colorado State University. She is one of the founding members of the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters. She shares her love of art by teaching national and international workshops (Italy, Guatemala, France, Mexico) and has been on the staff at the Denver Art Museum teaching color theory, composition and painting.
Her artwork has earned Merit Awards and shown at juried shows throughout the United States including Oil Painters of America Show, CM Russell Invitational Show and Arts for the Parks-Top 100 (award of excellence). Jeanne has been featured in Southwest Art Magazine’s Best of the West and My World, American Artist’s Workshop Magazine, Plein Air Magazine and International Artist Magazine- Master Artists. Her work has hung in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Minnesota’s Tweed Museum, and Corning Rockwell Museum.
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