Plein Air Sketches: Fine-Tuning to Finish
Instructor(s):
Catherine Puccio
Dates:
Tuesdays, July 8 - August 12
Times:
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Fees:
$325
Class Cap:
12 people
Although it is essential to begin a Plein Air sketch on site, you are working against time — light is fleeting, shadows are shortening or lengthening. A Plein Air painting might be completed in one outing, but more likely, it needs some finessing — maybe a tree needs to be added or removed, maybe you need to simplify shapes, tweak the composition or make design changes.
This class allows Plein Air painters time to improve their work IN STUDIO where cooler heads prevail. You can bring your work to completion or enlarge a sketch into a studio painting. If early 19th Century landscape painter, John Constable, arguably considered the “Father of Plein Air Painting”, could finish a painting indoors, so can you!
HIGHLIGHTS:
* How to fine-tune your draftsmanship
* How to strengthen your composition
* How to unify light and shadow for greater impact
* Determine what to edit out or simplify to more effectively convey your message
* How to use color and temperature to create atmosphere
About the Artist: Catherine Puccio started painting at the age of 13. She taught art at the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, NJ and in the public schools in CT. An award-winning artist, she has taught workshops at Lyme Art Association and most recently has become an Elected Member at LAA. She recently had a solo exhibition in the Mile Brook Gallery featuring many of her animal portraits. www.catherinepuccio.com