Creative Color in Landscape – Oil and Acrylic
All Levels
Dates: June 23-27, 2025
Cost: $495 + $50
Ken Hosmer will share his excitement, knowledge and attentive instruction in guiding you to your landscape inspiration.
Do you want to make your painting sing? Do you want to learn color harmony? Color excitement? Ken reveals color secrets and offers tricks and guidelines to creatively interpret painting subjects in your own style. A typical day includes presentation of new ideas and a demonstration in the morning with class work time and individual help in the afternoon.
He truly loves teaching and it shows! In his signature relaxed manner, he provides individual assistance in a positive and gentle manner to pinpoint exactly what a painting needs for improvement. He offers guidelines which encourage you to creatively interpret painting subjects in your own style. Daily painting demonstrations, typically held in the mornings, emphasize principles of color, composition, value while covering a variety of subjects.
Early in the workshop Ken demonstrates how black and white ink wash sketches can be used to plan paintings. These sketches show how to simplify images, organize the values in a painting, define the light source and create light and dark pathways through the painting to strengthen its composition. Ken delves into color emphasizing warm/cool color dynamics, complementary/analogous color schemes and spontaneous color selection.
The workshop concludes with an uplifting and informative critique session.
Ken’s loyalty to CAW is demonstrated by his return every year to teach in our mountain village.
Ken Hosmer has been a guest workshop instructor for over 100 art organizations and 23 watercolor societies across the U.S. and in several foreign countries. He has been coming to teach workshops in watercolor and oil painting in Cloudcroft for many years. Ken is passionate about painting and teaching and it shows. His skillful communication guarantees you will learn a lot and enjoy your experience. Ardently dedicated to helping each student improve, Ken will see that you will leave with your own inspired artwork.
Please visit his webpage: Kenhosmer.com for more artwork, his biography and accolades.
06/23/2025 – 06/27/2025