Classes & Workshops
iPhone Skills and Tools for Painters
ONLINE January 8 and 15, 2022. 9am to noon Pacific time.
All the things your iPhone can do to support your painting practice, from taking better photographs to editing them and photographing finished artwork. Includes PDF with all the info.
Hosted by Winslow Art Center. Register here.
PAPA SAS plein air workshop
Live and in person, it's the 2022 Plein Air Painters of America workshop at the Scottsdale Artists' School. February 13-17, 2022. Instructors: Eric Jacobsen, Mitch Baird, Dave Santillanes, and Aimee Erickson. One day of lecture, four days of on-location painting and instruction, plus three bonus uninstructed days spent painting alongside your instructors at the Vermilion Cliffs. For class information and registration, please visit the Scottsdale Artists' School page.
Head Studies from Photo Reference
ONLINE. Friday, March 4, 2022. 2:00 - 3:30 pm Pacific time.
A Technique Takeaway at Winslow Art Center. Aimee Erickson will walk us through a classic method of describing form using solid shadow shapes, a simple color structure and modeling only in the light. This is one of those things you could do five hundred times and still learn something from it. Register here.
Figure Painting: Lessons from the Masters
ONLINE. Tuesdays, March 1 - March 29, 2022. 9 am to noon Pacific time.
Hosted by the Scottsdale Artists School. We will take a gestural approach to painting the figure, using historical paintings as reference (instead of a model). Each class will include a demo/paint-along, with the last class saved for critique. Homework assignments will reinforce your understanding of color and palette for flesh tones. More information and registration.
Other offerings
NEW TUTORIALS ARE GOING UP ON YOUTUBE.
FREE ONLINE LPAPA MENTOR PAINTING DEMO
GLOW RECAP
Available to watch online on the Aimee Erickson Artist facebook page.
Did you miss YOU GLOW GIRL at the Plein Air Convention? LPAPA Signature Member Aimee Erickson recorded a video demonstration recapping the principles of how to make stuff glow.