KIM CASEBEER

Oil/Pastel
Landscape-indoor/outdoor
October 15-18, 2021
Tuition $595

Confident Color in the Landscape

Choosing color can seem like a mystery to a beginning landscape painter.  Beginning painters paint “what they know.”  For example, painting a tree trunk brown because they believe it to be so.  Students need to get past painting what they know and get to painting what they really see.  To do this, we start by going outside to gather information.  Our plein airs are our color notes.  We will spend about half of the workshop outside studying the landscape to gain color knowledge.  Photos do not give us accurate color and usually show the value of color as extremes where darks are black and lights are white.  Students will work on value, color temperature, color intensity and relativity to gain a better understanding of what they see.

Back in the studio, we will revisit what inspired us to paint a particular scene. Concentrating on this one idea will help you through the painting process.  The foundation of a strong design will make a strong painting.  Students will use drawing exercises such as notans and value sketches in order to experiment with composition. We will keep our plein airs close to remind us of the light, atmosphere and excitement of the outdoor experience.

Kim will give pointers on how to proceed and visit with each student before moving on to their studio piece.  Kim will offer demonstrations in both pastel and oil, and offer one-on-one help at your easel.  We will also conclude most painting days with a group discussion in a positive environment so that we can learn from each other’s work.

BEGINNER WITH SOME DRAWING AND PAINTING EXPERIENCE TO ADVANCED
INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATIONS
INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
PORTABLE EASEL NECESSARY

Kim Casebeer was born and raised in Kansas on a family farm.  As part of a fourth generation farm family, she has been connected to the land for a long time.  Kim still lives in Kansas and draws her inspiration from the simplicity of the Flint Hills, an area of wide open ranch land.  “It’s a simple landscape,” she says.  “You have to spend some time and let it speak to you.”  These days Kim travels to paint throughout the United States.  “I think the simplicity of the Kansas landscape has helped me find the essence of other places.  I’m able to focus on what’s important in a composition.”  

Kim received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Kansas State University in 1992.  She worked as a graphic designer and art director, while spending evenings and weekends painting until 2002, when she was able to make the leap to full-time artist.  Kim has continued to study with artists such as Albert Handell, W. Scott Jennings, Michael Albrechtsen, Scott Christensen and Matt Smith.

Kim’s work has been featured in numerous nationally recognized magazine articles including American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, Southwest Art, Art of The West and PleinAir Magazine, among others. 

Kim is a Master Signature member of the American Women Artists, and a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the Oil Painters of America.   She has won numerous national awards in these and other national prestigious shows.

Kim has work in many private, corporate and museum collections throughout the United States.  She is represented by Mountain Trails Gallery - Jackson, WY http://www.mtntrails.net; Brandon Jacobs Gallery – Kansas City, MO www.brandonjacobsgallery.com; Montana Trails Gallery - Bozeman, MT www.montanatrails.com, among others.  Additional work can be viewed on her website at www.kimcasebeer.com.

MARK FEHLMAN

Oil Painting-Study To Studio
November 1-4, 2021
Tuition $650

We all want to become better painters…as soon as possible. Mark will explore five aspects of creating a painting that can dramatically improve your work. 

This five day workshop will be outside for two days and in the studio for the last three days. Mark believes that an artist at any skill level, needs to periododically go back to revisit basic concepts that provide the foundation for a really good painting. As artists, we rarely spend much time on developing the best composition to express a scene, especially when painting outdoors. By finding the right dark/light pattern, the right viewpoint, or editing the scene, a really strong painting can be created.

Each day, Mark will teach a concept through demonstration. Students will be given exercises that will strengthen skills that are beneficial for capturing scenes in the landscape. Exercises will deal with such issues as limited values, design of composition, and editing.

Fredericksburg  is an amazing place to paint in the spring. The weather should be perfect for this outdoor portion of the plein air workshop. The class  will paint for two days outside to create a series of 9x12 studies that become the basis for paintings to be created in the studio in a larger format.

With this being a study-to-studio workshop, students will need to be prepared for both parts of the workshop. Listed on the supply list are supplies for the outdoor portion and students will need to bring photos and/or a laptop to work from in the studio portion of this workshop.

For those working from photograph prints, it will be best to work from the largest size possible and to have different exposures for lights and darks of their selected subject matter. Local stores offer quick turn-around print service and that can be easily figured out. 

Those using laptops will benefit from using photos that they have taken of the scenes where the studies were painted. be working and ideally, the class will be working from photos and sketches from the week. It's okay if students would rather try to work up something from a different location (in case of less than ideal weather), but absolutely must have thorough and quality photo reference to work from as well as a good accompanying color sketch. Cell phones are not adequate to work from in the studio.

Follow Mark on his recent podcast:

https://www.outdoorpainter.com/pleinair-podcast-episode-100-mark-fehlman/?fbclid=IwAR1AwCcOLgzTyIMLOFPxiStOSbg7ne1FLuHzjojsvM0AtYsHrcw0A0eIO3Q

SOME EXPERIENCE OUTDOORS TO ADVANCED
PORTABLE EASEL NECESSARY
INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATIONS

Mark Fehlman practiced as an architect for 35 years, as the design partner for the San Diego based firm, Fehlman LaBarre.  Mark started painting in 2000 and within 5 years left architecture to start a new career as an artist. He trained under many great artists, but the two who were most influential were Ray Roberts and John Asaro. Like both artists, Mark is equally comfortable in figurative and landscape subjects that feature strong composition, well defined value relationships and vibrant color. 

He has won numerous awards in various shows, including the “Grand Award” for the LPAPA 2014 Best of Plein Air, First Place in the Borrego Springs Plein Air Festival, as well as many other awards and recognition. 

Mark has been an invited artist in the Laguna Invitational, the Maui Invitational and The Forgotten Coast Invitational in Florida.

His work has been included in the California Art Club “Gold Medal” show, the “On Location in Malibu” show at Pepperine’s Weisman Museum, the “Tejon Ranch” show at the Bakersfield Museum of Art, and the Maynard Dixon Country Show in Utah. He is an artist member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and the California Art Club.

His work can be seen at www.markfehlman.com.

DANIEL GERHARTZ

PORTRAIT-Training The Eye To See
November 8-11,2021
Tuition $1,250 + $60 Model Fee

The focus of this workshop is on training yourself to see accurate relationships and record them in the process of portrait painting.  Dan will demonstrate two portraits in differing lighting situations.  He will lead discussion using slides of masterworks to demonstrate principles of accurate edge control. value control and color temperature.  Students paint a variety of models in these same lighting situations each day throughout the workshop.  During painting time Dan  will teach and critique as you are working.  The week will end with some discussion of how he develops a larger composition with a figure in a studio/still life piece and students hace the same model and set up for the full day of painting and the opportunity to work through some of those principles.

BEGINNER TO ADVANCED
INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATIONS
INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
PORTABLE EASEL REQUIRED

Daniel began his art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he studied in the classical tradition and immersed himself in applications of technique and design. After a brief stint in commercial art, he began pursuing fine art; visiting museums to study master works and painting alongside contemporary artists.  Daniel found his passion in painting from life.  This direct approach to working with the figure and the landscape allows him to see and attempt to capture the infinite nuances of light, color, and form. This continues to drive his enthusiasm today. 

The artist’s skillful and technically adept work celebrates the created world, the human form, personal relationships with a connection to landscapes and environments of special importance. Many of his figures are dressed in dramatic clothing which he often chooses for its aesthetic appeal and lyrical quality so as to achieve a sense of other worldliness.  His sense of intimacy and honesty with regard to his subjects are a direct result of his closeness and proximity to his family and friends. 

Emotions are a vital part of his express design, while his mastery of anatomy, the human form and complex surfaces combine to make his canvases very powerful visual experiences. 

 Dan’s work has been featured in numerous national invitational exhibitions as well as in public and private collections nationwide.  He has been featured in solo and group shows across the country and has won several awards at prominent national invitational exhibitions and his work has been collected both nationally and internationally.

His work is represented by InSight Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX www.insightgallery.com , Meyer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM www.meyergalleries.com , Eckert Ross Fine Art, Indianapolis, IN,  www.eckertrossfineart.com, among others.  Also see more work on his website at www.danielgerhartz.com .

CHARLIE HUNTER

Composition and Values in Plein air Painting
November 16-19, 2021
Tuition $800
Class Limited to 12

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

“Color gets the credit, but value does the work!” It’s a phrase you have probably heard before, but what does it mean? During this intensive four-day workshop, dive into the world of values and composition with master artist Charlie Hunter.

We will focus on how to build stronger paintings through values, edges, drawing and composition -rather than color. We will paint landscapes from life, and also explore an often-overlooked step that pays off in spades - creating drawings, from life or personal photographs, and using those drawings to create memorable and dynamic paintings. By simplifying forms and emphasizing composition, your work can take on a power that will truly make it stand out.  

Multiple demos by Hunter will show how he goes about creating his award-winning work. Students are sure to leave this class laughing, challenged, and armed with an arsenal of pointers and tools to strengthen their painting and create the best work of their life. 

STATEMENT:

I strive for my paintings to reside in an uneasy calm, half way between a photograph and a memory. The work of photographers such as Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans resonate in manner similar, yet distinctively different than -say- the paintings of Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella or Franz Kline. All, however, coexist in our collective visual language. 

I use a variety of moderately unorthodox techniques, such as manipulating paint with a window washer’s squeegee to achieve a suite of effects or impressing the pattern of paper towels into a painted surface to evoke the halftone screens and ben-day dots of classic photographic reproduction. I want these to be noted, almost subconsciously, by the viewer.  Concurrently, the thin, semi-transparent paint film allows for somewhat random mark-making to appear almost photographic in detail. 

The limited palette, near monochromatic nature of my paintings are, I hope, somewhat analogous to the stripped-down writing approach of a Raymond Carver or Ernest Hemingway, attempting to eschew extra verbiage for imagery that is pared down to sinew and bone.

INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED -not suitable for beginners-outdoor painting experience preferred
PORTABLE EASEL NECESSARY
INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATIONS

Charlie Hunter’s distinctive limited-chroma paintings have won wide renown for their distinct, evocative sense of place. Combining spare, elegant draftsmanship and haunting atmospherics, Hunter’s works evoke both the worlds of Hopper and Kline, Sheeler and Keifer.

After emerging on the national scene in 2012 with a feature in PLEIN AIR, Hunter has quickly leapfrogged to the forefront of that world, routinely winning awards at plein air events around the country.

 His work is now appearing with increasing frequency in museums and larger art shows. Collectors include MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and Tampa Bay football player Logan Mankins. He has curated the traveling exhibition BOXCARS: RAILROAD IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY REALISM, in partnership with the Center for Railroad Photography and Art.

Hunter grew up in small-town New Hampshire and Vermont, and often returns to the themes of rural deindustrialization in his work. His studio, appropriately, is in the former mill town of Bellows Falls, Vermont, which provides almost unlimited subject matter, though he is also fond of decrepitude wherever it may be found across America.

His work has been published in numerous publications including Southwest Art Magazine; Landscapes In Oil,Ken Salaz, Monacelli Press, 2019; Rule Breaking Landscapes, Streamline Art Videos, 2019, among others.

He is represented by McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.M.  www.mclarryfineart.com,; West Branch Gallery, Stowe, Vt. www.westbranchgallery.com.,; Authentique Gallery, St George, Ut.  www.authentiquegallery.com. , among others.  Visit his website at www.hunter-studio.com.

JOHN P LASATER IV

Landscape - Making Art Outdoors

November 30-December 3 2021

Tuition $575

Using the outdoors as your art studio isn’t always ideal, but there’s no reason it can’t be the place where you create timeless works of art.

John P. Lasater IV will help you approach outdoor painting with better focus. He will teach you: 1) how to find your intention, 2) how to plan your design, and 3) how to capture the essence of what you see.

Known for his string of awards in national competitions with a staggering variety of landscape subjects, John excels at pictorial concepts, open-form painting, naturalism, sophisticated color mixing and design principles.

With his years of painting and teaching experience, expect to be enlightened by his hands-on help and challenged by his lectures and demonstrations.

Teaching Objectives: • How to choose a painting spot that has pictorial potential • How to reduce the visual information to its essence • Ways to start and sustain an outdoor painting • Creating a sense of space in a painting • When and how to utilize atmospheric perspective • Eyeflow in design • Finding harmony in the color relationships • Wet-on-wet oil painting, and ways to use your tools.

BEGINNER TO ADVANCED

INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION

INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATIONS

2021 "2ND PLACE", Plein Air Southwest, Galveston, Texas (Judge: Roger Dale Brown)

2020 "Award of Merit", Door County Plein Air Festival, Wisconsin (Judge: Randall Sexton)

2020 "Judges Award", Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta, Georgia

2019 "1ST PLACE", Door County Plein Air Festival, Wisconsin (Judge: Tim Newton)

2019 "Top 100", BP Portrait Award

2019 "3RD PLACE" ANA Celebration of Art Exhibition (Judge: Dean Mitchell)

2018 “2ND PLACE”, Door County Plein Air Festival, Wisconsin (Judge: C.W. Mundy)

Recent Articles by or about John: The Artful Painter Podcast Interview Plein Air Magazine Podcast Interview Lori Putnam Blog - John's article about calling yourself an artist In The Artists Studio Blog - Interview about painting nocturnes John Pototshnik Blog Interview 2015.Southwest Art Article Parka Blogs - Art Tools Interview Artists Helping Artists Radio Interview - about John's 24-hour events Oil Painters of America Blog - John's article about the state of art in the 21st century

MEMBERSHIPS
Outdoor Painters Society – Master Signature Member, 2018-
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association – Signature Member, 2016-2019
Oil Painters of America, 2009-
Portrait Society of America, 2019-

RICK HODGINS

STILL LIFE PAINTING FROM LIFE

December 6-9, 2021

Tuition $525

Students are often nervous about what they don't know. However, not knowing is where the real learning occurs. Artists educate their eyes to see beyond what is normal. There is so much more to developing as an artist than the craft. The most important aspect is the developed ability to see as an artist. Becoming an artist opens up a very special relationship to the world. One of structure symmetry, color harmony, edges, shapes and the sensuality of paint and line. Art, the magic, the mystery come amidst a new way of seeing and the thrill of discovery within the relationship with your subject.

BEGINNER TO ADVANCED

INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION

INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATIONS

Rick paints in oils and watercolors. He started watercolor painting under the tutorage of Gerald Brommer of California.  He has studied extensively with Robert A. Johnson, David A. Leffel and others including Jeff Legg and Gregg Kreutz and other nationally recognized artists.

He is a member of Oil Painters of America and G.A.S.

He is represented by The Gallery at Round Top, Texas, The M.A. Doran Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Buffalo Trails Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Rick Hodgins was born in 1944 in Holdenville, Oklahoma and resides at Lake Travis in the Hudson Bend area with his wife, Sherron.

See more examples of his work at www.rickhodgins.com