A Plein Air Approach to studio painting

A Plein Air Approach to studio painting

Workshop | This program is completed

All levels

3/30/2019-3/31/2019

10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sun Sat

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$295.00

$275.00

As a landscape painter today, you have the advantage of being able to gather a lot of reference photos quickly and easily with a digital camera. It makes all the sense in the world to get all the visual cues you can to help jog the memory back in the studio for help with finishing touches or to work up studio paintings. As useful as photos can be, the truth is that a camera is not able to capture what your eyes are capable of seeing and your heart is capable of feeling. Merely copying a photo will never result in a real sense of depth, and colors and values will be untrue to what nature gives us.
As a painter, who has been immersed in the national plein air scene for more than twenty years, I have formulated concepts and truths about how I can achieve a feeling of light, atmosphere and emotion in paintings that I work up in the studio. I will share these concepts with you in this two day workshop. Through demos, handouts and a lot of discussion, both as a group and individually, you will learn how to interpret photos and make changes based on the truths found in nature and how to fill your paintings with a real sense of light and atmosphere. Composition, color, values, line and edges will all be discussed. I want to help you to not only interpret photos correctly but how to make marks that are expressive and uniquely your own. You can work from your own photo choices or look through my library of hundreds of photo references

  • Schoolhouse: Upper Level.
  • 87 Mountain Road, West Hartford, CT
  • Suggested Supply List
  • OIL PAINT
  • We use Rembrandt Oil paint except where noted.
  • Rembrandt Titanium White in Linseed Oil, 150 ml tube
  • Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd Titanium White, 200 ml tube
  • Winsor & Newton Liquin Impasto, 200 ml tube
  • Rembrandt Permanent Madder Deep
  • Rembrandt Permanent Red Light
  • Rembrandt Cadmium Yellow Light
  • Rembrandt Viridian Green
  • Rembrandt Ultramarine Blue Deep
  • Optional colors: Rembrandt Cad Red Deep, Rembrandt Venetian Red and Rembrandt Burnt Umber
  • Brushes
  • Robert Simmons Signet Series 42 Filberts in even sizes 2, 4, 6 & 8
  • Robert Simmons Signet Series 40 Brights, Sizes 4 & 6
  • Robert Simmons Sienna SNSO Script, Size 6
  • Robert Simmons Titanium Filberts, Sizes 2, 4, 6 & 8
  • Miscellaneous
  • Palette Knife-Creative Mark Painters Edge, Style 3T
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels-Bounty
  • Gamsol or other Odorless Mineral Spirits OMS. No pure turpentine either as a brush cleaner or in painting mediums.
  • Painting Medium - Made with 2 parts Gamsol to 1 part each of Stand Oil & Damar Varnish.
  • Brush Washer
  • Medium Cup
  • Trash Bags
  • Canvas - 9x12 and 11x14 inch panels are good travel sizes.
  • Alkyd Primed 359 or A600 Linen from Wind River Arts is recommended
Lussier, David

David Lussier is an award winning contemporary impressionist and nationally recognized plein air painter and workshop instructor. He is a painter in the purist sense of the word. In his poetic and intimate oil landscapes he strives to capture the essence and sense of place of his subject matter. His use of bold broad brushwork brings the surfaces to life and begs the viewer to return for a second look. David started his career as a commercially trained illustrator, but he quickly realized that his passion was in the fine arts. He has been painting professionally for more than twenty five years, has garnered more than 75 prizes for his work and is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States. His work has been featured in many art journals and he is a professional member of some of the finest art associations and groups in the country. David is also an official U.S. Open artist for the United States Golf Association. Four of his paintings hang in the permanent collection of the USGA Museum in Far Hills New Jersey.