This workshop is for the studio artist who would appreciate guidance in exploring the open-air experience. Gay will explain and demonstrate solutions to the challenges posed by plein air painting. Topics will include which equipment works best, how to choose a time and location, how to secure your work in various weather conditions and other tips and tricks that will benefit the artist who is ready to explore painting outside the studio. The class will be introduced to the Impressionist palette, and explore the importance of establishing values in your work.

MATERIALS:

French easel (ideal) or tripod easel

Canvas board, 9x12 or 11x14, minimum of 5

Stiff hog hair bristle brushes, two each of #2, #4, #6, and #8

Flexible metal palette knife

Oil paint, either oil or water based, in the following colours: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Medium or Light, Cadmium Red Light, Quinacridone Violet, Permanent Rose, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Viridian, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.

Turpentine (for oil based paints) & a solvent jar

Bungee cords

Paper towels and Wet Ones

Visor or wide-brimmed hat or cap.

Introduction to En Plein Air Painting with Oil

Instructor: Gay McNeil

Saturday September 11, 2010

9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Break for lunch

1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Cost:  WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

We regret we will be unable to present this workshop due to an injury to the Artist.

BIOGRAPHY:

Gay studied Fine Arts at the Green Mountain College and the University of Connecticut; and from 1991 – 1997 at the Cape Cod School of Art; followed by five years of private study under Peter Granucci. Gay’s paintings are in collections in Sweden, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. In 2001 the producers of Virginia’s Run commission 12 paintings for the film. “I have always been over-whelmed by the beauty of the world around us, and all I’ve ever wanted to be is an artist. It’s been a journey of discovery to learn how to paint. How exciting it is to never stop learning.”