MEMBER NEWS

IT’S NOT EASY PAINTING GREEN
Workshop Dates: Friday, April 17 – Sunday, April 19, 2020
Location: Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave, Durango, CO 81301 

Fee: $350.00

Learn how to easily and successfully capture the greens of spring and summer in your landscapes! This three-day studio workshop will explore an approach to color and painting systems that will help you to understand and achieve the effects of atmosphere and light in your paintings. Topics will include basic color theory, understanding chroma, understanding color value, relative color temperature, atmospheric perspective, the effects of light, pigment characteristics and mixing paints. Field studies, photographs and sketches will be used to study and develop pieces that explore landscape scenes. Reference materials will be provided but students are encouraged to bring their own as well.  Daily demonstrations will be in oil but other media are welcome. This class is open to artists of all ability levels.

“The very best part of teaching a workshop is seeing a fellow artist’s AH HA moment.” - Peggy Immel

MAKING YOUR PAINTINGS SING
Workshop Dates: Friday, March 6 – Sunday, March 8, 2020
Location: Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM
Fee: $350.00
If you struggle to bring your paintings to a lively, satisfying, finish this three-day studio workshop will give you tools to help you reach that goal. We will focus on using a simplified approach to color and values that will provide insight into how you can achieve luminosity and the effects of atmosphere and light in your paintings. In addition, attention will be given to composition, shapes and brushwork. Field studies, photographs and sketches will be used to study and develop pieces that explore landscape scenes. Reference materials will be provided but students are encouraged to bring their own as well.

Daily demonstrations will be in oil, but other media are welcome. This class is open to artists of all ability levels.

“The very best part of teaching a workshop is seeing a fellow artist’s AH HA moment.” - Peggy Immel

I just received the happy news that I was selected as a new American Impressionist Society Signature Member.

Joe Anna Arnett

PAPNM member, watercolorist, author and illustrator:

Erik Speyer’s book, Kubi Meets Rosita, won best Picture Book for New Mexico and Arizona at the 2019 NM and AZ Book Awards. Erik illustrated the book first, then wrote the story. The Spanish version got a medal from the 2019 International Latino Book Awards in LA earlier this year. Erik's book is available on Amazon.

Listen to the Plein Air Podcasts sponsored by Eric Rhoads and the Plein Air Magazine. Visit: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/category/pleinair-podcast/. I have just begun to listen to them on my daily walk. Very informative with many painting AND marketing tips for Plein Air painters.  I highly recommend this podcast series.  Karen Halbert

Nancy Silvia will be spending two weeks in September as an Artist in
Residence at Cape Cod National Seashore.  She will stay in one of the
historic "dune shacks"  on the outer Cape, listening to the surf and
returning to her roots painting seascapes.

2 photos attached:  "Boris' Shack"  and "Almost Evening" 8x6"

New Works at 7 Arts Gallery, "Inhabitants of the Land" hangs for the month of July at 7 Arts Gallery, 125 Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe, near the plaza. Please join us for an artist reception on Friday, July 12, from 5 to 7 pm.

7 Arts Gallery at 125 Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe will host Nancy Silvia's June Exhibition "NIGHT AND DAY - Recent Paintings". The Opening Reception will be Friday June 7, from 5 to 7pm.

Peter Grab's painting "North of Santa Fe" was selected as part of the FAV15 % in the March 2019 Bold Brush Painting competition.