Plein air painting at TAG on the Elderfields preserve with Megan Euell
Adult Classes | Available
2 day workshop, Thursdays July 30 & August 6, 10-1pm
Join experienced landscape painting instructor Megan Euell on the beautiful grounds of The Art Guild to learn or improve your plein air skills. With over 15 years of plein air painting expertise, Euell will explain the entire process to help students feel comfortable and prepared to create a beautiful painting outdoors. Euell’s approach involves focusing on the primary colors to teach students about color harmony. Expect tangible guidance to improve your compositional design, your value structure, and clean, vibrant color mixing. The TAG property features many wonderful scenes-from the historic building, to mature trees and gardens, complex textures and colors- truly a plethora of options for all artists!
Euell specializes in oil painting, and students are welcome use oil paint, water-based oil paint, or watercolors for this workshop.
Upon sign up, a comprehensive pdf guide will be sent to all students, with a wealth of knowledge distilled down from Euell’s 20+ years of study with various academies and instructors.
- Open to all levels
- This will be held outdoors at TAG on the Elderfields Preserve. In case of inclement weather we will move it indoors and work from reference materials.
- A comprehensive painting guide by Euell will be emailed prior to the workshop for participants to look over prior, printing if desired.
For the workshop, you will need the following supplies, or similar. I have everything I use or the most similar that’s available linked at the end of this list:
- sketchbook or paper and pencil
-Palette- hands free palette is ideal, similar to this https://www.dickblick.com/items/sienna-palette-box/
-palette knife
-panel or canvas- any rectangular size between 11 x 14-up to 16 x 20 (I often paint on 12 x 16)
-Vine charcoal
-odorless turpentine
-cup/jar for turpentine with lid
-assorted hog bristle brushes (filberts and rounds preferred)
-oil paint (no Winton by Winsor and newton, otherwise brands are flexible)- titanium white, yellow ochre, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, terra rosa/english red/burnt sienna, alizarin crimson, cerulean blue, ultramarine blue, ivory black, raw umber or van dyke brown
- paper towels
-baby wipes
-garbage bag
-water, snacks, lunch
My list is linked here:
https://www.dickblick.com/lists/wishlist/THRSXUJFL...
The easel I use the most is linked here: **Easels will be provided by TAG as well as small black art tables
great for plein air and travel: Easel-Camera Tripod- I’ve been using this easel for the last few years, great to travel with, as it collapses quite small. NB, if you opt for this, you will also need the Leder Easel (linked next), which essentially is a mast/holder for your panel, and has a support for your palette box
Leder Easel attachment- goes with
Camera Tripod to hold palette
Megan Euell
A representational oil painter based in Brooklyn, Megan K. Euell is inspired by light, texture and rhythm. Her work showcases her keen sense of observation as she paints from life. She aims to capture the character of a place through richly layered scenes, blending the timelessness of the medium with modernity.
Euell is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design and The Florence Academy of Art. She is a member of the esteemed Salmagundi Club and the Portrait Society of America and has received recognition through various awards and grants from organizations including the Art Renewal Center, The Salmagundi Club, The Artist’s magazine, The Stobart Foundation, The National Cowboy Museum, Savannah College of Art and Design and Florence Academy of Art. Her work is in both private and public collections in the US and Europe.
Euell paints plein air throughout the United States and Europe, and teaches drawing and painting in New York City, Glen Cove, NY at the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, and on the East End of Long Island. Euell works out of her studio space at Industry City that she shares with her husband, Francis Waplinger, a shoemaker.