Advanced Plein Air Painting (Rockport, ME)

JULY 7-11, 2025
$750

You’ve taken classes and workshops before. You want more than a recap of skills you’ve already mastered, and more than change of scenery for a week. This intensive workshop is designed for experienced painters looking to push their boundaries and explore new techniques.

The week concludes with an opportunity to show your work in my gallery. All participants will be invited to share their accomplishments with the public at a closing reception.

Advanced Topics Covered:

• Development of personal themes, narratives and concepts
• Directing the viewer’s eye through the painting
• Taking drawing seriously
• Advanced color concepts and applying them to your design
• Scumbling, impasto, and other advanced painting techniques
• Repairs and revisions (ouch)
• Critical Analysis
• Developing a cohesive body of work
• Showing your work in a gallery setting

Admission Requirements:

Class size is kept small to allow for personal interaction and individual guidance. To ensure a high-level learning environment, all interested students must submit a portfolio for review prior to acceptance. Your portfolio should include:

• Up to 5 of your best recent works
• Your artistic goals for the workshop

Please submit these via email here.

Location:

The Maine coast is an artist’s paradise, with its stunning scenery, vibrant colors, and ever-changing light. In the height of summer, the days are long and sunny, and the nights are cool and refreshing, providing ideal conditions for plein air painting. Under the guidance of an internationally acclaimed artist, you will learn to capture the beauty of the Maine coast in your paintings.

A Few Details

Each day will include morning and afternoon on-site painting and lunch-time discussions and demos. We will paint in a number of locations so transportation (perhaps car pooling with other participants) will be required.

Students will need to bring a portable easel as well as the other art supplies necessary for painting. A list will be sent to registrants.

Cost: $750. This covers all painting instruction, lodging and meals are the responsibility of the student.

Requirements: Portable plein air easel, paints, brushes, etc., rain jackets, plein air umbrella, sunscreen, insect repellent, stool suggested. Maximum: 14 participants/workshop.

Mediums: All mediums are welcome: oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor.

Time: 9 – 4 pm each day.

Location: Centered in Rockport, ME.

Refunds available up to 60 days prior to start, less a $50 administration fee.