Painting is Seeing: An Intermediate Plein Air Workshop

Saturday May 3rd from 9:00-4:00

Location: Idlewild Park, weather permitting

An email will be sent a few weeks prior to the class with a material list as well as more specific directions for the location.

Join us for a full day of painting outdoors led by Fernie artist and prolific plein air painter, Melanie MacVoy.  Learn how to efficiently set up your materials, choose a composition, map it out and record valuable information about local colour and natural lighting to inspire future paintings.  This workshop includes demonstrations, exercises and one on one guidance.  Painting outdoors is a valuable tool for learning how to see the landscape through direct observation and quick decision making.  Intermediate painters welcome, bring your watercolours, acrylics or oil paints.

"I am a Canadian landscape painter based out of Fernie, BC. I take inspiration from painting outdoors or en plein air from which to create larger painting…