My exciting news this season is the publication by Frida Press, of a collection of my paintings entitled Blue Shadow Country. Inside the covers you will find paintings that give an overview of my natural landscapes and engineered landscapes. Along with the illustrations there is accompanying each image, an explanation of its genesis and a bit about process. Stay tuned for release dates, when and how to order.
2015 Workshops
Be sure to click on the workshops link for my 2015 workshops. I will be teaching on both coasts this year.
Art dog triage…when painting in the desert never nap in a cactus patch
Virginia City, Nevada
St Mary’s Art Center
Class begins June 14th to 18th, 2017
Check in and welcome dinner Tuesday June 13, 2017
Paint, Live, and Eat! That should be the motto for this workshop which has become a nearly two decade tradition in Virginia City. Here we expand our boundaries as artists as we paint in the Victorian studio of this venerable building. Participating artists not only take the workshop but stay in the beautifully restored rooms of the 1870’s era brick building.
Tuition and lodging are included in the cost: $625. Spouses and partners are welcome. 35. per night extra
For those commuting or staying elsewhere Tuition only/ No Lodging $425.
The Workshop: “Shape-Shifting, Making the Invisible, Visible in Water-media”.
-Big Brush Approach to water media enhances expressive shapes in your painting.
-Translate the natural world into highly designed semi abstract paintings.
-Use Opaque water media.
-Paint on watercolor paper and Aquabord.
Note: Class starts on Wednesday the 14th but arrival is on Tuesday the 13th with an orientation dinner in the evening. You can check out on Monday the 19th if you wish.
Class limited to 17 artists so please sign up early it fills fast! But please make sure you can attend before registering, cancellations can be problematic.
$200. Deposit
Registration form contact Dale Laitinen
email: Dale@dalelaitinen.com
Mendocino California, Northern California Coast April 28th thru May 1st
April 28 thru May 1st, 2015
Shape-Shifting Nature
Great design leads to great painting. Go beyond the surface and find the hidden visualtruths of nature. Using the underlying design as our guide we navigate from representationand shape-shift toward semi abstraction. Focus of demonstrations and hands on painting will employ the five art elements, line,hape, value, color, and texture in a practical way that aids in that journey to a visual language. During the workshop we transition from representational painting toward semi-abstraction through watermedia painting techniques that include transparent watercolor,opaque techniques, with an emphasis on drawing for painting.
Mendocinoartcenter.org
Keep Checking their website, registration to begin January 2017
Frida’s Anxiety Dream, being lured aboard a UFO with a Denny’s menu, by an alien wearing a pig’s mask.
