Art Workshops Summer 2008 – Oil Painting
Ramon Kelley
Pastel and Oil Painting, Portrait and Figure
Advanced
July 7-11, 9:30am-4:30pm
$650 plus tax (includes model fee)
While accomplished in many media and most genres of subject matter, Ramon Kelley is best known for his exquisite pastel portraits and figure studies. Oil and pastel students will have the opportunity to work on still life, figure studies, and portraits under Kelley's direction. The class will consist of demonstrations and individual instruction. Topics to be addressed include value, color temperature, looseness vs. detail, and layering color in pastel without making mud.
Ramon Kelley traces his interest in art back to his grade school days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he often filled the margins of his textbooks with drawings. After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy, he won a scholarship to the Colorado Institute of Art. For the past 25 years, he and his family have made their home in Denver, where Kelley has built an award-winning reputation in various media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pastel and sculpture. Ramon is a member of the National Academy of Western Art, Oil Painters of America, and The American Watercolor Society. In 1985, the Pastel Society of America named Kelley a Master Pastelist, and in 1986 the P.S.A. elected him to the Pastel Hall of Fame. His work is represented in public and private collections around the world.
Students must have portrait drawing or painting experience.
John O. Encinias
Oil Painting
Intermediate to Advanced
July 28-August 1, 9:30am-4:30pm
$550 plus tax
Students will paint directly from the subject. John Encinias teaches that all oil painting, regardless of subject matter, is a question of seeing shapes and color, and of noting how light hits the form. He encourages students to learn to trust their own eyes and to paint the colors they actually see. He uses a limited palette of just six colors plus white, and occasionally black. Encinias will demonstrate during the week and will work individually with each student. At the end of the week he will critique each student's work.
Encinias was born in northern New Mexico, but has lived in Denver for more than 30 years. He became a member of the National Academy of of Western Art in 1985, and has regularly exhibited on their Prix de West show. Other exhibitions to his credit include shows at the National Wildlife Art Museum, The Albuquerque Museum, and Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum. An Encinias landscape was featured on the cover of Southwest Art's February 2002 issue. An accompanying article appeared in the same issue. Encinias was also featured in the book Masterworks of Impressionism by Arlene Kirkpatrick, published in 1985. American Artist featured Encinias in its August 1998 issue in an article entitled 6 Colors + White. Self-taught as an artist, Encinias is equally adept painting portraits, still life, and landscape. Encinias' still lifes and landscapes are represented by Legacy Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona and Jackson, Wyoming; Valley Fine Art, Aspen, Colorado; and Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe.
Craig Srebnik
Secrets from the Masters:
Painting Flesh Tones & Portraits
Intermediate to Advanced
August 4-8, 9:30am-4:30pm
$575 plus tax (includes model fee)
Secrets used by classical through contemporary
masters of portrait painting will be introduced
and demonstrated: the proportions and
structure of the head; monochromatic underpainting
to establish the composition, planes
and facial features, and the light and dark masses;
selecting and mixing colors on the palette;
layering and blending naturalistic skin tones on the canvas; capturing warm, cool,
and neutral variations and the transparency of the flesh; portrait artists’ methods
of rendering facial features; alla prima and palette knife techniques; interpreting
the effects of light and atmosphere; and helpful studio tips. After the demonstrations,
which will be in oil, participants can either work on their own portrait projects
or on the class project.
Craig Srebnik has spent his life immersed in the arts and culture of the U.S. and
Europe, having worked professionally as an artist, lecturer, teacher, writer, musician,
and ballet soloist. He has been a student of culture, literature, philosophy, and history.
His artwork has appeared in American Artist, American Art Review, Art of the
West, International Artist, and Southwest Art magazines among others, and he has
won awards from organizations including Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist
Society, and the National Society of Artists. Srebnik’s sinuous, romantic
nudes and clothed figures have been described as having a “painterly, classical naturalism”
combining the timeless beauty of classical and baroque masters with the
light, atmosphere, and expressive brushwork of contemporary masters. He teaches
workshops in the United States and Europe, where he also shows in galleries, juried
shows, and museums.
John Poon
Landscape Painting in Oil
Intermediate to Advanced
August 18-22, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$550 plus tax
This course will cover the fundamentals of composition, color and values as the basis for painting successful landscapes. Working both from reference sources and in the field, Poon aims to help each student develop greater skills of observation and greater competency in studio and plein air work. Instruction will include a lecture and slide presentation, demonstrations, class critiques, and lots of one-on-one time with each student. A field easel set-up is required, as the class will be painting on location much of the time.
John's work reflects his inspired appreciation of the landscape. He has been featured in numerous periodicals, including Southwest Art (May 2003) and The American Art Collector. He has received many awards and honors, notably "Best of Show" for the Society of Western Artists annual national juried competition, and the Sonoma Plein Air "Artists' Choice Award." He is represented by Mountain's Edge Fine Art in Santa Fe; Garden Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California; Legacy Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming; and the Walls Gallery, Wilmington, North Carolina. John and his wife, Jenny, live in Jackson, Wyoming, with their five children and Sven, the cat.
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