Express yourself and find the media you love most. Every day of this camp is different, allowing students to experiment with different media. Collage, acrylic painting, drawing, mixed media, print-making, watercolor, pen and ink, and other non-traditional techniques are all options. This camp is for 6-12yr olds.
Painting
Plein Air Painting: The Living Landscape
How do you translate the wild complexity, vibrancy, and constant motion of the natural world into a painting that actually feels alive?
Join Johnny DeFeo for three immersive days of plein air exploration, where landscape becomes both subject and teacher. Together, we’ll investigate how to identify the essential qualities of a place—its light, rhythm, atmosphere, and energy—and transform those observations into fully realized works of art.
The workshop blends short lectures and demonstrations with both quick studies and longer-form paintings, all created on location. Rather than a traditional “paint-along,” instruction is intentionally intimate and responsive, with frequent mini-critiques and one-on-one guidance. The focus is on helping you develop your own visual language and body of work.
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Confidently identify and articulate the essence of natural elements
- Generate meaningful prompts to guide future studio practice
- Create paintings that feel personal, descriptive, and deeply connected to place
Participants should bring their own supplies and have prior painting experience, such as a beginner class, and are ready to deepen their practice. This workshop is designed for artists ready to deepen their relationship with landscape and push their work beyond observation into expression.
$325 early bird until May 1st! Price goes up to $375 after.
Plein Air Painting_ Material List
Painting and Drawing Club Session 1
This eight week course will mentor 6th -9th graders in painting and drawing. Get inspired from different artists, find your own voice while developing concrete skills and techniques. This after school art class is for young artists that love drawing, want to connect with other young artists and grow their abilities in 2D art.
Painting and Drawing Club Session 2
This eight week course will mentor 6th -9th graders in painting and drawing. Get inspired from different artists, find your own voice while developing concrete skills and techniques. This after school art class is for young artists that love drawing, want to connect with other young artists and grow their abilities in 2D art.
Painting Concepts Session 3
Find your own painting style.
Develop your own unique style while exploring the tools and techniques to make a great painting from start to finish. Practice the elements of art and design, composition, color theory, and brushwork, while drawing inspiration from artists around the world to learn new approaches to creativity and expressing emotions with paint. Techniques like priming, layering, glazing, and varnishing will be demonstrated. Students will walk away with a finished painting as well as confidence to continue to explore the medium. All ability levels benefit from this class.
Materials:
– Sketchbook
– Pencils
– Eraser
– A pad of Canvas paper (Oleo, thick watercolor paper, or canva paper is fine)
– Oil Paints / Acrylic Paints
Kits are fine, but if you choose to purchase individual tubes of color, please include these:
- Titanium white
- Ivory black
- Cadmium Red
- Permanent Alizarin Crimson
- Ultramarine Blue
- Phthalo Blue
- Cadmium Yellow
- Lemon Yellow
– Optional additional colors Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber
– Firm Bristle Paint Brushes Please select one or two small, medium, and large round brushes, as well as flathead brushes
-Palette A palette is any surface on which you can mix your paint. I prefer to use a covered palette which preserves paint for longer use. You want a palette big enough to mix all your colors on
– Odorless Gamsol, Turpenoid, or other odorless mineral spirits
-Linseed Oil Linseed oil increases the transparency of paint as well as the fluidity, while maintaining the paint’s oil base.
-Glass Jar To hold our solvent. You may want to purchase one with a metal coil inside to help clean brushes. Bring an extra empty, sealable jam jar as well.
-Palette Knife If you prefer to mix your colors with brushes, that is fine.
-Rags Used for cleaning/drying brushes
-Painting Clothes These are clothes you don’t mind getting paint on
-Canvas Canvas boards are very economical but you may want to choose a stretched canvas. The stretched canvases one can purchase at art stores are already primed and ready to paint on. If you are stretching your own canvas, you will need to prime your surface with an acrylic gesso. Bring at least one of a smaller dimension, for example an 8” x 10” canvas board, and one larger surface, for example a 16” x 20” stretched canvas.
Painting Concepts Session 2
Find your own painting style through landscape painting !
Develop your own unique style while exploring the tools and techniques to make a great painting from start to finish. Practice the elements of art and design, composition, color theory, and brushwork, while drawing inspiration from artists around the world to learn new approaches to creativity and expressing emotions with paint. Students will walk away with a finished painting as well as confidence to continue to explore the medium. All ability levels benefit from this class.
Please bring several photos of possible scenes you would like to paint. We will also have photos in case anyone does not have any.
Instructor: Beverly Brown
