Develop your plein-air painting skills focusing on the art of capturing the “Feeling of Night” in a August workshop with artist Thomas Van Stein.
Learn techniques that will help deepen your understanding of how to articulate, “Night Light,” and how to express it more poetically on canvas. This hands-on plein-air workshop includes PowerPoint lectures focusing on historic and aesthetic context, an emphasis upon design and composition. Warm/cool color relationships, tonal harmony, unifying values, and the theory of relativity in art. There will be demonstrations on specific approaches to the nocturne concept of chiaroscuro. Basic choices of consistent palette and easel set-ups for easier lay-in, and painting development, plus finishing techniques; utilizing principles of glazing with transparent color in order to achieve greater atmosphere and glow.
Class is designed for any level of artist with plein-air painting experience. Participants must provide their own plein-air set-ups: including easels, palettes, brushes, mediums, and paints. Oils, Acrylic, and Pastel mediums are accepted.
*Color-balanced booklights will be available for use.
Hours for Workshop:
We will meet on two consecutive afternoons/evenings on location in safe areas along the beautiful Greenbelt flanking the Boise River, Idaho. Plus, final critique/finishing secession on the third day.
August 28: 6-10pm Meet on location
August 29: 6-10pm Meet on location
August 30: 12:00-2pm Final Critique, Finishing Demonstration PowerPoint
*August 30: Possibility of Moonset Painting 5am-8am (Depending on Weather)
*Prospectus provided upon enrollment
