Come practice your skills at capturing the beautiful landscape of the Connecticut shoreline. Learn to keep your equipment to a minimum while capturing a variety of motifs available at Hammonasset Beach Park, including rocks, water, vegetation, beachgoers on the sand. Our emphasis will be on how to capture the dynamic and essential qualities of simple images, with an emphasis on value structure, scale, and composition. Learn how these studies can be developed into larger works at a later date, and how the Great Masters of painting have done so in the past.
First class will meet in the very last parking lot at Hammonnasset Beach Park, in front of the rocky shoreline area of Meigs Point.
Come to the first class with:
a lightweight folding stool
a sketchbook or other surface to work on
a small set of black and white media (such as charcoal; pen; or pencil)
and one color media of your choice, such as watercolor, or pastels, or colored pencil
a can of permanent fixative for charcoal and pastels if needed
eraser, paper towels, low-tack artist tape