Two stand-alone weekends of plein air painting! Choose an individual weekend or take both. Each weekend is only $140 for 2 full days of on-site painting.
If you’ve always wanted to try oil painting, and love being outdoors, this course is for you. Plein Air Painting means exciting dynamic painting on locations where we will interpret the landscape with brush and palette knife. We will compose paintings by studying color and value, and interpret our excitement with painterly marks of energy and texture. This is how the impressionists captured the fresh look of sunlight and changing weather in a single session.
If you started Plein Air painting at Common Ground on the Hill's Traditions Weeks, you are encouraged to sign up to continue your experience.
Level: Absolute beginners and beyond
Locations in and around Westminster, MD, will include the Union Mills Homestead, Hashawha, and the Carroll County Farm Museum.
Materials fee: $25 for panels, canvas and medium
Students should bring:
- a portable easel, and supplies that can be transported to the painting site
- a photo tripod with quick-release mount
- oil paints (NOTE: Students can purchase a materials kit from the instructor for $50 which includes panels, brushes, special tools and assorted supplies
- a bag lunch (NOTE: We will take half an hour for lunch at noon)
NOTE: Students are required to pay a $5 admission fee to the Carroll County Farm Museum.
Pat Brodowski began painting outdoors about 30 years ago at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and formerly taught drawing and painting in the adult program at Carroll Community College. Retired from museum work, she now paints daily, and creates camping adventures to paint in beautiful places.
