Learn to use the Prismatic Palette and how to effectively use greens in your paintings!

This is the inaugural Urban Sketching Summer Retreat.  The week will provide a full immersion workshop experience, on the finest Island campus-known for its extraordinary light and color, with unlimited sketching locations.

Produce stronger landscape paintings by taking authority and orchestrating the visual elements of design to communicate your own artistic intent! Learn from the master of pastels during this plein air and studio workshop.

Learn how to capture dramatic light and atmosphere in the landscape. During this workshop, Kathleen Hudson shares her method for critiquing her own work in progress so you can take your paintings to the next level.

In Dan Marshall's studio workshop with a plein air focus he will focus on composition, design, consistency of wash and proper use of tone to help you elevate your watercolors to fine art paintings! Through both studio and plein air demos and one on one personal attention, he’ll use his skills to help you further yours to establish a consistent painting process. Instilling a confidence in yourself and the medium. Learn how to exploit “mistakes”, refine and further develop your technique and take your paintings to the next level…and have fun! His high spirits and energy are contagious!

From thumbnail sketches to plein air painting, we will explore the varied desert motifs of Tucson, Arizona. Through demonstrations in oil and pastel, group discussions, composition walks, painting exercises, and plenty of individual instruction, you will learn to approach the landscape in enthusiasm and confidence.

The objective of this workshop is to improve the clarity of your intention before the painting begins and ultimately achieve a more artistic statement.

In Dan Marshall's studio workshop with a plein air focus he will focus on composition, design, consistency of wash and proper use of tone to help you elevate your watercolors to fine art paintings! Through both studio and plein air demos and one on one personal attention, he’ll use his skills to help you further yours to establish a consistent painting process. Instilling a confidence in yourself and the medium. Learn how to exploit “mistakes”, refine and further develop your technique and take your paintings to the next level…and have fun! His high spirits and energy are contagious!

Join award-winning travel artist, urban designer and educator James Richards in one of his favorite places, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Join Canadian artist and travel sketcher Shari Blaukopf for a five-day location sketching workshop. With watercolor and sketchbooks, we’ll capture and record the fascinating culture and history of Santa Fe.