In this plein air and studio workshop, you will learn to make informed design and color decisions, which will give you more creative control over your chosen subject. 

During this 5 day plein air workshop, we will be spending the first 2-3 days out on location (weather permitting) followed by the final 2 days back at the MISA Studio.

Paint the summer landscape with Charlie Hunter! A multi-day immersion in drawing, painting, and composition.

Dan will focus on composition, design, consistency of wash and proper use of tone to help you elevate your watercolors to fine art paintings! Through 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!

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.