Mike Bagdonas, a nationally recognized award
winning Quick study, Plein Air, Landscape and Western genre artist, will be
holding this three day intensive small landscape study to large studio
painting
workshop. The workshop will be held in Folsom, CA at an as yet to be
announced location from October 16, 2009 to October 18, 2009. The workshop hours will be from
approximately 8:30 AM to 4PM
each day (one hour break for lunch).
Mike will demonstrate small thumbnail sketches from
photography followed by small oil
studies in color on the first day and turning those studies into a larger
studio painting on the second day. The original photograph will not be
used to block in this studio painting. Only later will it be used to
add greater detail if needed to the painting.
Participants will spend each day working on their
own studies using the demonstrated methods. Mike
will be interacting with each participant assisting them, as needed, toward
a successful completion of their sketches, studies and the final studio
painting. He
will be stressing the “alla prima” method of oil painting (wet into wet
paint) along with accurate quick draw methods, as well as
accurate value assessments, color relationships, composition
and design.
This workshop is for beginning to Advanced
artists working in oil. Beginning artists must have basic drawing skills and knowledge of oil painting techniques before
undertaking these quick study methods in an alla prima manner. We will
not be tracing or copying images other then by sight. If you are a
beginning to advanced artist this workshop will help you to stop using
photographs alone for your studio paintings that contain unrealistic value
or compositional attributes that lead to poor representations of the
landscape. This workshop will also help you to be better prepared to
paint "en plein air" and then turn those paintings into large studio
paintings that possess a feeling of light and spontaneity.
The cost of
this workshop will be two hundred seventy-five dollars. Please contact
Barbara Otey, Folsom Arts Association at (916) 608-9153 or Email her
at
barbotey@comcast.net to reserve your space.
Please telephone or Email the artist for further
information.
Mike Bagdonas
(530)417-0381
Email:
artist@mikebagdonasstudio.com
Primary website:
www.mikebagdonas.com
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