WORKSHOP: JESSICA SCHIFFMAN - Plein Air Painting

WORKSHOP: JESSICA SCHIFFMAN - Plein Air Painting

Saturday February 4 and Sunday February 5

9:00 – 4:00 and Sunday 9 - 4:00 with a lunch break

$200

To reserve, or with inquiries, contact Jessica Schiffman at jscaschiffman@gmail.com

Painting the landscape from life is thrilling and can be challenging as well. The world is filled with an infinite variety of color and value, and an overwhelming amount of detail. Patterns of shadow and light are changing each moment.

This workshop will help you to simplify and organize what you see, and go on to create satisfying, dynamic paintings with strong, logical dark and light patterns. Topics will include composition, focal point, perspective, and value (dark and light), as well as color theory.

We will also focus on managing oil paint. We will explore underpainting, painting ala prima (layering wet paint without making mud), mixing paint, and more.

Some painting experience is advised.

Bio

Jessica Schiffman has been a working artist for nearly thirty years. Her paintings, including hundreds of plein air studies, as well as abstract and figurative paintings, are widely collected, and she has also created murals and illustrated numerous children's books. She has taught workshops and classes at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program, the Desert Art Center in Palm Springs, the Create Center for the Arts in Palm Desert, the Trilogy Country Club, Sunnylands, the Annenberg Estate, Shadow Hills Country Club, The Desert Institute at Joshua Tree, and outdoors in Idyllwild. She studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute.