....Don't forget! Ultimate deadline for Hood River Oregon 2010 Plein Air Competition is June 30

Pacific NW PleinAir2010 Call for Entries Applications now being accepted through June 30, 2010 LINK for additional information: Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2010 Columbia Art Gallery

Three Day Plein Air Summer workshop with Janis Ellison (Grants Pass, OR)

Save the Date! Learn to paint outdoors…Plein Air.
Join Janis Ellison, an accomplished award winning painter for a three day tour of learning to paint Plein Air or refreshing your skills after a long winter. She will demonstrate how to simplify the subject matter, focus on the big shapes and values to create a successful painting on location outdoors.
Janis has been painting in pastel for over 15 years and is an experienced and patient teacher. She has signature status in SPS, NPS, PSO, and PSNM Pastel Societies. Her works are in galleries in California, Grants Pass, Cannon Beach and Bend, OR. Pastel Techniques
Pastel Plein Air Latour…with Janis Ellison
Artist demonstrations and lots of individual easel time with the instructor.
June 21, 22, 23
Cost 150.00
Location Grants Pass, OR
Register Early…Class size limited to 10
Call to Register: Janis Ellison, 541-955-1888
www.janisellison.com
Email Janis Ellison

"Essential Oil Techniques" Thomas Kitts one day oil painting workshop through Art Media & OSA

Get started in Oil (or "refresh") in this one day workshop with Thomas Kitts

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How to Register:
Please call Art Media Monday through Friday 9AM to 4PM to register. 503-223-3724 OR 1-800-990-3364

Summer-Fall 2010 Oil Painting Workshops with Mary Lou Epperson

Mary Lou Epperson conducts all day workshops with demonstrations and intensive, individualized instruction in a small group setting.

Two-day Plein Air Workshops

Fri-Sat, Aug. 20-21, McMinnville

Practice seeing, selecting, sketching and painting your impressions of rolling hills, majestic evergreens (and maybe even an elk herd), on this 160-acre ranch.
9 am-4 pm. Limit 10. All levels. $195.

Fri-Sat, Sept. 17-18, Oregon Coast

Paint studies of wave patterns and rock formations, and learn to capture sea and sky color notes at some of Oregon’s most scenic coastline at Cape Mears and Three Arches.
10 am-5 pm Fri., 9 am-4 pm Sat.
Limit 10. All levels. $195.

Two-Day Studio Workshop

Sat-Sun, Oct. 23-24, Beaverton

Create a larger studio painting from this summer’s plein air studies. Develop new, personally meaningful compositions from small paintings and photos while exploring how color, contrast, edge and texture define space and volume
9 am-4 pm. Limit 4. All levels. $195.

Email Mary Lou Epperson

2010 Plein Air Painting Workshops with Mitch Baird

Join award winning artist Mitch Baird for a local plein air painting
experience capturing the landscape. The workshops will be 2-day
intensives for all skill levels and limited to 12 students to ensure
individual attention. The Colorado workshop will be a 5-day intensive
regarding the process of plein air to studio work. The location settings
and dates of the workshops will be:

June 12th & 13th
Columbia Gorge, Washington/Oregon
9am - 5pm
Held in conjuction with the Solo show
at Art on the Boulevard, Vancouver, Washington

Workshop cost is $200
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July 17th & 18th
Sauvies Island, Oregon
9am – 5pm

Workshop cost is $200
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August 17th – 21st
Evergreen Fine Art Academy, Denver, Colorado
9am - 4 pm

Please contact Evergreen Fine Art for registration by visiting
www.evergreenfineart.com
or
call 1-800-452-9453

Workshop cost is $600
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October 10th & 11th
through the
Umpqua Valley Arts Center in
Roseburg, Oregon
from
9 am – 4:30 pm

For registration and details please call
the UVAA Office at 541-672-2532
or visit the web link
http://uvarts.com/adults.html
and scroll down to the posting.
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A materials list will be provided with registration as well as exact
meeting locations with directions. Lodging will be the responsibility of
the student if needed.

For details visit www.mitchbaird.com. For registration please
call 971-227-6142 or email mitch@mitchbaird.com

News from Eric Jacobsen

Eric Jacobsen has added a Painting Workshop to the 2010 schedule.

When: May 26th & 27th
Where: Smith Rock, Time: 10-4
Cost: $200

Call to get your name on the list: 509-364-0018

Other Dates to consider:
June 5th & 6th
10-4, Sauvie Island
$200

June 12th
10-4, Hood River
$80

About Eric's workshops

The workshops are intensive plein air workshops complete with informal lectures, chat sessions, demonstrations and critiques. These classes are open to all serious painters from beginners on up.
The class structure will be informal with an emphasis on enjoying the painting process while working on the basic fundamentals of good landscape painting. Focus will be on organizing and simplifying your subject and on making key decisions that will enable you to successfully paint the landscape.

For information about paintings and workshops:

www.jacobsenstudio.com

Call to Artists: Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2010, Columbia Art Gallery

Pacific NW PleinAir2010 Call for Entries
Applications now being accepted through June 30, 2010
LINK for additional information:
Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2010 Columbia Art Gallery