Fun with Fusion Findleton in Colorful Placerville

This workshop will be an intensive three day workshop, full of painting demos, instruction, and a critique. This hands on landscape painting workshop will focus on making a painting from the sketch to the last brushstroke. Join us in working with shape, line, color, contrast, design, and most of all imagination. This workshop will fill quickly so sign up soon, see you there.

Cost: $250.   contact: Fusion Findleton Gallery  www.fusionfindleton.com

ph 530-295-1968

Artists Show Place

Indoor Studio Painting with emphasis on designing and abstraction the natural landscape.

Cost: $350.

www.artistsshowplace.com

Stretching Boundaries For Creative People VII, National Creativity Seminar

Find inspiration with artists and teachers who are thinking outside the watercolor box. Join us in stretching our limits, materials, and ideas.

www.ohiowatercolorsociety.com

Susan Graham email: corgi2ears@mac.com, ph 440-708-1704

Sawmill Creek Lodge & Resort

www.sawmillcreek.com

Spring In The California Foothills

North along Highway 49 in California’s Gold Country,  you will discover Nevada City one of the most famous, historic, and picturesque towns from the gold rush days of the 1800s. At this workshop you discover this yourself through your paint and brush as we go outdoors in the spring sunshine to paint this beautiful landscape. Paint the Yuba River, high country creeks and historic sites. You can’t beat this workshop.

You can Stay at Harmony Ridge Lodge where our workshop is headquartered, last year we had a great gourmet dinner. The rooms are artistically decorated, and very reasonable. Certainly worth it.

Tuition: $275.

contact: Dale Laitinen: email: artist@dalelaitinen.com  phone: 209-754-4003

For lodging I recommend Harmony Ridge Lodge  www.harmonyridgelodge.com

Roam California’s North Coast

You find Gualala by driving north from San Francisco along Highway One, a most visually exciting drive, one of the best you will experience. Redwood forested hills give way to grassy slopes that abruptly terminate at breathtaking rocky cliffs and secluded beaches. Once you leave this area you will always dream of returning.This workshop is sponsored by the Gualala Arts Center, with beautiful facilities and studios. Lets put our brushes to work while exploring this wondrous part of the world.

Tuition $175. for members $195. for non members. Contact www.gualalaarts.org

Mid Valley Arts League

Three day intensive workshop covering innovative and traditional approaches to watercolor. Designing strong landscapes, using interesting shapes, line and color, will be the hallmark of these three days. Join us in exploring new ways to approach watercolor.

Tuition: $75. non members $85.

Contact: Susan Gutschow email: susangatsp@aol.com

Art and History at St. Marys

St Mary’s Art Center is 45 minutes from Reno, but 134 years in time. This building began its life during the heyday of the Comstock Lode silver rush, opening its doors in 1876. It was a Catholic hospital, then abandoned, but has been reincarnated as an art studio, as it has been since the mid-nineteen sixties.

I first started my workshops in St. Marys in the 1990’s and have been drawn here ever since. The building is beautifully renovated in period decor. The rooms in which workshop attendees reside are throughout the building, the art studio is on the top level with panoramic views of Virginia City and Six Mile Canyon.

The meals are not included in the lodging but we have communal dinners in the two dining areas and huge kitchen, the original wood stove from 1876 is still there, and used sometimes. There are modern facilities so you don’t have to rough it with wood heat or cooking. Usually what happens is we form meal teams and each night one team is responsible for producing the meal. The rest of the time they kick back and enjoy. On Tuesday evening, the day prior to start, I do an enchilada dinner as a welcome to St Mary’s.

This year’s workshop will be about thinking outside the box a bit, as far as watermedia  is concerned. Stretching materials ideas and new formats will be the watchword. Although we can use subjects in the area we are not limited to that. So, more studio work and less being out in the elements. St. Mary’s has always been an exceptional workshop, both intriguing and stimulating.

The combination tuition and lodging package makes this a great deal, very affordable, if you add up what you would spend finding other lodging or food, this becomes extremely attractive.

Tuition and lodging $500. single  $485. with roommate that is registered in class

Tranquility Found

Located at Cascade Head Ranch near the Salmon River Estuary within view of the Pacific Ocean. A peaceful place where art and landscape can come together with inspiration. Sitka has fostered for four decades, creative inquiry, drawing artists and scientists to this forested retreat overlooking the ocean. The art studios are cocooned into the Sitka forest where classes are held.

This workshop will be all about expanding your vision and technical expertise by trying out new materials on new ideas. Come here for tranquility and thinking outside the box.

email info@sitkacenter.org

website www.sitkacenter.org

Late Summer Reflection

As summer glides toward autumn, take a drive along Highway 88 toward Carson Pass. Paint at Silver Lake and stay at Kit Carson Lodge or camp at nearby campgrounds. During this workshop we will set up at such places as Sandy Cove, Woods Lake, Caples Lake, and beyond. This landscape has unlimited possibilities to paint, expect to be impressed.

Dinner in the gourmet restaurant at Kit Carson Lodge is a treat after a painting day in the high country,  afterward relax in your cabin by the lake.

inquire for tuition and lodging information

www.kitcarsonlodge.com 530-258-8500

Autumn Color Exploding in the Sierra

The Eastern Sierra Workshop will be headquartered in Bishop and have both indoor and outdoor venues. Expect beautiful plein air painting sites in the mountains and valleys of this region. The landscape is one of extremes with the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada rising abruptly from the valley floor. The weather is warm during the days and cool in the evenings.  There will be demos, individual instruction and critiques. Be prepared for a splendid painting experience.

For registration contact: Helen Warren email: hjwarren0@gmail.com

Tuition only $250. lodging not included, inquire at registration about lodging availability.