Plein Aire Painting Workshop

Plein Aire Painting Workshop, $270, 18 hrs, 6-8 Apr

Most of my best ideas come from nature.  So learning how to paint it seems like an essential part of my training.  For example, the image below was painted from a beach in Metchosin one hot summer afternoon, looking across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Hurricane Ridge in the Olympics. On that afternoon I learned how to ‘see’ the various distant blues and warm highlights on the summits.  I have used this shorthand many times since.

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