MORNING WORKSHOPS
Painting the Landscape
w/ Alvin Ouellet
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Alvin will demonstrate his approach to the logistics of plein air painting from materials to composition, drawing, color mixing and paint application. Alvin will be painting throughout the event and participants are invited to join in and paint and draw under his instruction.
BIO: Alvin’s paintings, prints and digital collages explore the interactions of the built and natural environment and result from the close observations of light, value, color and form. Alvin earned a Master of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has taught numerous courses in painting and printmaking at several higher education institutions.
https://www.alvinouellet.com/home
Sketching the Landscape in Pastel
w/ David Lane
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Step into a world of color and texture . . . and paint with the ease and immediacy that comes with the medium of chalk pastel. David will walk participants through questions of composition, underpainting, color theory, and application techniques. The workshop will begin with a demonstration followed by one-on-one instruction.
BIO: David is a North Adams based painter, sculptor and theatre artist. His 2006 blog, Porchlight Paintings, captured his daily efforts painting a small still life on his screened porch in the evenings. David has studied painting and drawing at the Grand Central Atelier with Dale Zinkowski, Diana Buitrago, Dan Thompson, and landscape painting with Berkshire’s own John MacDonald.
http://www.porchlightpaintings.com/
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
Plein Air Painting: Experimental Techniques in Watercolor
w/ Suzette Marie Martin
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Join Suzette Marie for an afternoon of painting and experimentation with new techniques to add to your watercolor painting practice.
Learn how to create expressive, spontaneous textures and effects through the addition of common household materials to your art supply toolbox. Hands-on demonstrations using watercolor in conjunction with various traditional and non-traditional media will be followed by the opportunity to try out new abstract and naturalistic techniques in a beautiful plein air setting. A variety of experimental materials will be available, but please bring your own paints, brushes, boards and paper (shared Paint Out materials also available for a small fee).
BIO: Suzette Marie Martin is a figurative painter based in the Berkshires. Her mixed media work on paper and canvas combines layers of imagery, symbols, text and data to explore topical subject matter.
An experienced and supportive arts educator, Martin’s recent solo exhibits include 6018North Center for Experimental Arts and Culture, Chicago, with resident artist solo exhibitions at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass, Amherst and the Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY. Martin was a keynote speaker at the “Never Not in Crisis: Forms of Calamity in Catastrophic Times Symposium”, Myers Foundation, Northwestern University. Her “Naiads of the New World” drawings have been featured in Orion Magazine.
Shell Sketchbook Making and Nature Drawing
w/ Sarah Pike
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Join Sarah for the afternoon and create a unique Shell Sketchbook suitable for watercolor, pen, and pencil media. Then take to the forests and fields and capture the foliage, hills, and pond in your newly created travel companion with tips from Sarah about responding to the natural world in color and line.
View examples of her Shell Sketchbooks here:
https://www.instagram.com/sarahpikesarah/
BIO: Sarah Pike is a contemporary artist of paintings, prints, and drawings and someone who marvels at the natural world. She maintains a practice in drawing outdoors, as part of her daily walks in the woods. She describes returning to the landscape as a way to get back in touch with something deep inside . . . and as a way to connect to the artists in her family who have come before her. Read more at her website:
