Plein Air Painting Sessions, with Amanda Hawkins - Session 3

Plein Air Painting Sessions, with Amanda Hawkins

Sessions will be held on Tuesdays (10am-1pm), from May 31 through June 14. Individual locations for each session are TBD.

Held at various outdoor locations in and around Cambridge, this workshop uses the landscape as a way to enter the language of abstraction and the world of plein air painting. Each guided plein air session will use the surrounding landscape of the New England springtime as inspiration to explore relevant topics such as expressive mark-making, composition, color relationships, and value differentiation.

The class will begin with several drawing exercises to assist artists in locating a composition, loosening up, and identifying value structure. Artist will then begin to engage their canvas using direct painting techniques. Each artist will aim to create a painting in the alla prima technique (wet into wet), with the goal being to finish the painting by the end of the painting session.

Session and pricing info below.

Class size: 10 attendees per session

Sessions:

May 31, Location: Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle Street (Registration closes May 27 at 5PM)

June 7, Location: Longfellow House Gardens ((Registration closes June 3 at 5PM)

June 14, Location: Mount Auburn Cemetary (Registration closes June 10 at 5PM)

Pricing:

For (1) session:  CAA Member: $90; General Admission: $110

For (2) sessions: CAA Member: $135; General Admission: $165 

For (3) sessions:  CAA Member: $202.50; General Admission: $247.50

 

(Interested participants have the option to register a la carte, for up to (3) sessions. Current CAA Members must login to their NEON account to access Member Pricing for this event.)

PLEASE NOTE: Students will be responsible for getting to each session location and must bring their own materials and plein air painting setup. Please note that easels will not be provided for this workshop. For a detailed list of suggested materials, see the link here. 

About Amanda Hawkins

Amanda K. Hawkins is an award-winning painter living and working in Boston, MA. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Art Education from Montserrat College of Art. Amanda exhibits her work throughout New England, teaches painting workshops across North America, and has work in private collections across the globe. She maintains an active blog, sharing her studio practice with over 25K people worldwide. Amanda can often be found outside, seeking inspiration for paintings in local and far away landscapes.