Capturing the Flavors of the Southwest Landscape
Plein Air Pastel and Oil
Beginner to Advanced Level
Dates: June 17-20, 2024
Fee: $495 +$50
Invest in your passion and create your dreams!
Come explore pastels or oils capturing the flavors of the Southwest landscape with renowned, internationally recognized teacher, Lorenzo Chavez from Colorado. This inspiring landscape workshop will study the fundamentals of classic landscape painting with composition and underpainting natural light as the focus. Time spent in the cool pines will be valuable with the presence of nature’s inspiring beauty. Time will also be spent indoors focusing studies on creating finished gallery quality landscape paintings.
Lorenzo wants everyone that takes this workshop to enjoy every step of your art journey while learning impressionistic landscape painting.
You will learn the how and why of creating landscape paintings from life and in the studio starting with big shapes using big brushes and plenty of paint on your palette applying the principle of selective focus. You will learn to visualize the landscape in unique and exciting new ways while honoring traditions of the past.
Lorenzo is well known for his patience and articulate lessons that will awaken your artistic vision. His workshops utilize the visual approaches of shape, value, edges, line, and color. He will offer plenty of individual attention, daily demos, and group discussions in a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere.
Using pastel and oil mediums, his hope is to carry on the art traditions of American painters such as the Taos Society of Artists and the American Impressionists.
Lorenzo Chavez was born and raised in the southernmost point of the Rockies in New Mexico. His first inspirations and foundation as a young artist were formed by the local landscape and the art history in New Mexico. Through the years, while searching for subject matter, he realized there are many similarities throughout the Rockies. The deep blue of the vaulting sky, majestic cloud formations, rabbit brush, Chamisa, pinon, pine and juniper, the willows that line the stream banks, the granite in the mountain ranges, aspens and the endless seas of grasses.
Education: Colorado Institute of Art – Graduated with honors 1983
Art Students League of Denver – 1987 – Studied under Mark Daily
Lorenzo is a nationally known Fine Art instructor who has taught numerous workshops across the United States since 1993.
Website www.lorenzochavez.com
Link: How to Prepare for Plein Air
Link: Advice From Lorenzo
Link: Sketches from the Field