• One to two hour daily classroom lectures on working with a limited palette of
cad yellow, cad red, ultramarine blue and titanium white. Discussions on motifs,
composition, value fundamentals and assessing correct color temperatures.
• Written instructional materials containing considerations for a successful painting:
composition, color, values, focal points, sources of light, affects of distance, reflections,
shadows and highlights, paint mixing and brush strokes. The advanced knowledge
of beginning, developing and finishing plein air paintings.
• One or two 10 - 30 minute instructor demonstations from location each day
• Four to six 30 minute studies by students the first two days and
one or two extended paintings on the final day
• Daily Q and A sessions
• Critiques following each painting session