Plein Air Workshop

PLEIN AIR | 3 DAY ON LOCATION WORKSHOP on June 28th, 29th & 30th from | 9:30AM-3:30PM | for $275.00 + Tax

Each day everyone will meet at the Artisan in Santa Fe: 2601 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505.

One hour break each day. Whenever is convenient for everyone while out on location.

This class is open to students working in all media and all levels are welcome.

Anita Louise West will be doing on location demonstrations in watercolor/water media, acrylic paint and oil paint.

Please bring what you would like to work in.

Bring your own materials, easels, and a chair if needed. Be ready to be on the go and make yourself portable. Anita will have more suggestions of how to be successful with this. Bring your own lunch, snacks and water.

Locations for the 3 day workshop are as follows:

1. Day 1  Harvey Cornell Rose Park 1320 Galisteo Pkwy, Santa Fe, NM 87505
2. Day 2 Fort Marcy Park 490 Bishops Lodge Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87501
3. Day 3 Cerro Gordo Trailhead

While these locations are planned, changes may happen depending on availability and weather. 

DAY 1 : Harvey Cornell Rose Park

• We will discuss how to become portable with supplies. This involves how to set up, considering the three light situations, and the conditions outdoors. Including tips and tricks to painting on location.  
• I will show you how to find a subject in nature. We will focus on a close up subject with an emphasis on placement and center of interest. Which guides us in finding what your personal vision is. 
• I can explain how to simplify linear perspective if needed.     
• We will also target shape and values (contrast) as dominant in our paintings. 
• The demonstration will be in water media (watercolor, acrylic or gouache). 

DAY 2 : Fort Marcy Park

• While using aerial perspective, this will spotlight distance in our work.  
• The center of interest is illustrated using foreground, middle ground and distance.
• A very helpful trick when working in Plein Air: How to simplify and design using a viewfinder.   
• Today’s demonstration is in pastel. 

DAY 3 : Cerro Gordo Trailhead

• Color is the lovely topic of today’s painting. I will explain the three properties of color and how color temperature is created in our concept.   
• While using our own sense of color we will also create a visual feast of color. This will have us choosing a limited triad of pigments (yellow, red and blue). Then we will create a color field in our work.  
• Prismatic progression is considered to be the point of the painting.
• Today’s demonstration is in oils. 

Bring your materials (paints, brushes, palette, surface and photos or sketches to work from).  If you need a suggestion, here’s her recommended supply list. 

Watercolor/Acrylic (Water Media)

Paints: Watercolor paint, tube or pan
Acrylic Paints: Cadmium Yellow Light, Red Light, Blue, White
Brushes: Synthetic or Sable Rounds or Flats
Surfaces: Watercolor paper ie: 140lb cold press
Miscellaneous: palette (closeable), water container, spray bottle, paper towels, tape, sponge

Pastels

Pastels: sets of pastels such as Sennelier, NuPastels, or other pastels
Surfaces: papers such as Canson, Fabriano, or Sanded: Colorfix or U Art 400
Miscellaneous: backing board, tape, paper towels, glassine

Oils/Water Based Oils

Oil Paints or Water Based Oil: cadmium yellow light, Cad red light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, other pigments. Personal preference, I like the Cobra brand.
Brushes: bristle or synthetic flats or filberts
Palette: Wood, glass or paper
Surfaces: Canvas Panels or Stretched Canvas
Miscellaneous: paper towels, Gamsol for oils, palette knife
Mediums: personal preference, water-based linseed oil

• Max Students: 10
• Bring Your Own Materials- Easel, Chair, Medium Supplies and Lunch
• No Refunds after June 24th
• Please park on Maclovia Street between Artisan and Autozone – Please DO NOT park directly behind our building

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Artist Statement:
Ms. Anita Louise West has had a passion for painting from an early age. She graduated with a BA in Art from Missouri University. Ms. West went on to study at the Kansas City Art Institute on scholarship and earned a teaching certificate at the graduate level at UMKC. Teaching in public schools in Kansas, California and Texas, she continued to study and paint using oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

Landscape painting on location helped to simplify the subject matter and paint without hesitation, and study the changing conditions of weather and light outdoors.

Anita’s fluency in all mediums and subject matter helps facilitate her students’ growth.

Having been a professional painter and business owner since 1989, Anita moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1993 where she was introduced to the national art world. She painted and taught workshops throughout the United States as well as Spain, France and Canada.

Returning to her childhood dream of painting in New York in 2007, Anita studied at the Art Students League with Mary Beth Mackenzie, Daniel Greene, Nelson Shanks and Richard Schmid. This experience in the studio helped her appreciate figure and portrait work as well as Plein Air painting. Co-author of Painting the Landscape in Pastel, Ms. West is capable of explaining and simplifying the materials and methods of painting in all mediums. For more information, please visit: http://anitalouisewest.com.