Painting Instruction with Vincent Crotty Summer 2011
July 10 — 16
For information and registration, visit The Catskills Irish Arts Week
Fulltime student: $400
Part-time student: $325
Students must provide their own materials
“Painting From Life”
Presented by The Catskills Irish Arts Week
East Durham, New York
Catskills Irish Arts Week is America’s premier summer school for Irish performing and visual arts. Spend your days painting, and your nights listening or dancing to the best traditional musicians from Ireland and the US. Vincent’s workshop will guide novice as well as experienced artists through the process of painting from life. This course will strengthen students’ understanding of design, color, and especially light, as they pertain to painting from life. There will be opportunities to paint outdoor landscapes (weather permitting), still life, and figure paintings of musicians. This course is best suited to adult and teen-age students. Students must provide their own materials.
“Painting Believable Light”
Falmouth Art Center
Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
This workshop will focus on how to transmit a feeling of believable light and how to make a painting “glow”. Because of the changeable nature of outdoor light, artists need to be able to operate with great efficiency and with a confident understanding of light. In this workshop you will explore how to work in various conditions of outdoor light, ie. direct sunlight, backlight, overcast skies, partially cloudy skies, and dawn/dusk situations. In addition, you will learn how to create the glowing quality that appears in the work of many master painters. There will be an optional painting session on Monday from 5:00–8:00pm to focus on dusk.
“Plein Air Painting”
236 North Main Street, Sheridan, Wyoming
This workshop will include a balance between theory and the practical aspects of painting on location. We will have an in depth discussion on light and how to approach painting it in many different ways. There will be a presentation of digital images, looking at artist movements such as the Ashcan School (American), the Skagen Painters (Denmark), the Russian Impressionists, the Taos Painters, the Dutch and English. Vincent will give short demonstrations to show how simplicity can be the most important aspect on painting on site. There will be an additional option of painting after dark in the streets of Sheridan. A pot luck evening at the end of the workshop will give us an opportunity to wind down after three full days of concentration.