Painting Workshop in Italy!
IN PERSON Plein Air Workshop in Umbria, June 13-20, 2025. Please visit Winslow Art Center's site for all the details about travel, lodging, supplies, and schedule.
Aimee's Paint Club
Ongoing, live online meetings twice a month. It's not a class, exactly, although there is instruction--it's more of a cross between a mentorship, a learning space/joy meetup, and a warm group of friends coming together for inspiration. Everyone is welcome! I have met so many of you in workshops and thought how cool it would be to be able to support you and your learning on a regular basis. And I want it to be affordable for you, and also make enough that it can be a robust and long-lived venture.So: I'm pleased to announce Aimee Erickson's Paint Club. (yay!!)
- We'll meet twice a month in live online sessions. Meetings are USUALLY the first and third Mondays, from 9 to 11 am Pacific time (meetings will be recorded, so you can watch them later) .
- Topics include:
- Paint-along color exercises
- Lessons on various painting problems
- Painting Makeovers (like the ones in Plein Air Techniques for Artists)
- Longer demonstrations
- There's a Chat Group where you can post your work, ask questions, and share inspiration
- I'm building a library of instructional videos and painting prompts, which you can access any time.
- You're invited to repeat the exercise, or design your own assignment based on what is alive for you.
All levels are welcome. I mostly paint in oil, but may also demo in other media. Regular meetings are the first and third Mondays of the month from 9 to 11 am Pacific time (please note there may be some exceptions to the schedule). I have a really good feeling about this. Join us!
Think Like a Painter: Still Life and Portrait
IN PERSON. Scottsdale Artists' School, March 31 - April 4, 2025.
In nature, light reveals color. In painting, color reveals light. Learning to understand lighting phenomena gives us more freedom in choosing how we paint what we see, rather than having to look to nature for every decision. Plan on some serious learning in a lighthearted atmosphere!
Starting with Color
IN PERSON. Warehouse 521 in Nashville, Tennessee. March 17-21, 2025
This is a four day paint-from-life workshop in the studio. We will have still life setups and a model to allow us to approach the eternal questions of color, value, composition, figure-ground relationships, and what makes brushwork beautiful. What is it you see in something that inspires you to paint it? An awareness of your inspiration can guide the decisions you make as you paint. There will be demos and individual instruction. Set up to paint when you arrive--the first morning, there'll be a series of brief demos alternating with painting practice. Later on there will be extended painting sessions to make time to get into development of a painting.
Plein Air Workshop at Laguna Beach
IN PERSON. Hosted by LPAPA in Laguna Beach, California. JULY 20-25, 2025
Please note the split schedule: the workshop starts on a Sunday evening, has morning and evening sessions Monday through Thursday, and concludes with a morning paint-out and lunch on Friday. This makes for easier travel, and allows siestas.
Three-Quarters Lighting Challenge
ONLINE at Acrylic University.. This is a pre-recorded series of eight videos.
Join Aimee Erickson in her studio as you create eight beautiful still life paintings. Walk with her through each painting using traditional 3/4 lighting. Explore how edges, highlights, shadow, and light bring dimension to your work.
Note: 3/4 lighting means that 3/4 of the object is in light and 1/4 is in shadow (a wonderful, classical way to describe an object.)
Aimee's Original 52-Week Miniature Painting Challenge
ONLINE at Acrylic University.
This is a series of 52 pre-recorded half-hour videos, released to you once weekly for a year.
Free "GLOW" Demo
Did you miss YOU GLOW GIRL at the 2019 Plein Air Convention? LPAPA Signature Member Aimee Erickson recorded a video demonstration recapping the principles of how to make stuff glow.