For links, registration and more information visit https://www.bluebirdstudiosantafe.com/

Note that for the Lorenzo Chavez workshop: PAPNM members can enter the code, PAPNM15, upon registration to get a 15% discount on the workshop.

Blue Bird Studios was founded and is managed by PAPNM Member, Beth Cooper.

From Anita:

ARTISAN ART SUPPLY WEDNESDAY MORNING CLASSES:   Classes are in full swing.  Demonstrating  the four mediums of watermedia, pastel, oil and waterbased oils, Participants can paint in any medium and get help at the easel. We explore the basic elements of art and principles of design in creating paintings.  In addition to signing up for all 4 weeks, you can now choose which days you want to attend.  Sign up early as these fill up quickly.  https://www.calendar.artisansantafe.com/

ARTISAN DRAWING WORKSHOP:  I will be teaching a three hour hands-on workshop in the basics of drawing.  Many of us missed the discipline of line, values, shapes and textures.  These BASICS were overlooked or dismissed as no longer needed.  In my experience of art making, I find the stronger the drawing is the better the result.  Even with abstract work, decisive mark making is essential.  https://www.calendar.artisansantafe.com/

ARTISTIC LICENSE GALLERY IN ELDORADO :  Come and see my art work here.  I will be working a few hours each month.  Just check with me if you want to meet me there.  We are located in the Agora shopping center near the Agora Market.     

SHOW AT ELDORADO LIBRARY:  I have my work at the public library for the month of August.  

ALAMOGORDO 3 DAY PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP  OCTOBER 12,13 & 14, 2023.  This is a wonderful opportunity to paint White Sands, and desert and mountains in one location. I have been drawn to this area many times.  The workshop has a limit of 10 participants and will fill quickly. To sign up  send a message to Janet Amtmann  here.

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET:  Sundays and Tuesdays at the Farmers Market  I will be showing and selling my work at this market as space open up.  I am looking forward to showing and selling  my new work.  

I look forward to seeing you soon and renewing our mutual art journey.  

Send a message to Anita here .

July 25 - 28, Tues - Fri 
New Mexico Art League: http://www.newmexicoartleague.org

From Michelle: 

Hello Painters!  

See the attached flyer, for my upcoming July Workshop at The New Mexico Art League!  Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm, July 25-28.  We will produce several small paintings per day, painting "Alla Prima,", Italian for "all at once!"  We will produce fresh, direct paintings from interesting objects that will loosen you up for all of your painting endeavors.

Please email me with any questions that you may have.

I hope to see you soon!

Michelle

mailto:michellechrisman78@gmail.com

Capturing the Moment with Michelle Chrisman Summer 2023 (1).pdf to print.

HERE IS A DEMO PAINTING I did in a student mentoring session recently. If you are interested in improving your sky painting, I am offering a second "Clouds and Sky In the Landscape" painting class beginning July 7 (the first class filled quickly so I decided to offer a second one).

The class meets from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Fridays, July 7 - August 25 in my Albuquerque studio. The cost is $350.

The summer monsoon is a perfect time to paint the sky in New Mexico. This 8-week oil painting class will introduce students to the relationship between the sky and ground and explore ways to impart luminosity in skies, strengthen compositions through effective placement of cloud shapes, and enhance mood with creative use of color. Some observational time will be spent outside. Sessions will meet in my Albuquerque studio in the northeast heights, and class size is limited to six so each student receives adequate attention. It is advised that students who take this class have a grasp of art fundamentals and some experience working with oils.

For more information and to register, contact me at tblazier@hotmail.com, 505-323-2246 or visit my website: www.tomblazier.com

I hope you can make it. This is a fun and informative class!

Thanks for your time!"

Tom Blazier

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Symbols of Happiness
Saturday June 3, 10am – 4pm

Artisans Santa Fe
2601 Cerrillos Road

Add color and texture to your paintings with inspiration from Van Gogh. Learn how to use Golden extra heavy medium in your acrylic paints to get the texture Van Gogh achieved in his paintings. Walk away with a beautiful sunflower painting. Instructors: Wendy Ahlm & Stephanie West

All Day Workshop | $90

REGISTER

Select for more information:

 https://www.mmahon.com/event/enchanted-colors-of-new-mexico-workshop-2023-millicent-rogers-museum/

Register here and visit: https://newmexicoartleague.wildapricot.org/

For questions, send a message to Michelle here.

Kick Start your Art in Vibrant Color

Saturday, May 13, 9am – 4pm

Artisan Santa Fe
2601 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Launch your summer with this color burst class! Discover the time saving beauty using Color Burst, watercolors and gouache to express nature's wonders. Instructors: Wendy Ahlm & Stephanie West

All Day Workshop | $90 + tax 
REGISTER

“Santa Fe Capella” by Michael Chesley Johnson

Beautiful Landscape: Painting Outdoors with Michael Chesley Johnson

(Postponed to a future date)

May 6 - 9, 2023

9 am - 4 pm

$640 + 7% NM Sales Tax

Valentine Special Offer! $40 off! Available until Feb. 28. Use the code MCJ40 at checkout.

About the Workshop

Skill level: Experienced beginners through advanced

Materials used: Any traditional medium is accepted such as pastel, oil, gouache, or acrylic. Please no watercolor.

Workshop description: In this four-day workshop, Michael will share Plein air painting fundamentals and demonstrate his method for “capturing the moment” quickly and efficiently but without sacrificing mood and magic. He will show you how focusing on value and color temperature in an initial “best guess” will get you started quickly, leaving plenty of time for making adjustments at a more leisurely pace.

Each day, we will start off in the studio for a lecture. After, we will head to the field where Michael will demonstrate. Time permitting before lunch, students will get started on their own paintings. Following lunch, students will continue to paint with Michael going from easel to easel offering help. At the end of the day, we will return to the studio to review our work and have critiques.

Topics covered: Working with the time factor and other issues specific to Plein air painting, choosing a location and subject, exploring designs with thumbnail value sketches, color harmony in the landscape, understanding color temperature with a goal of “capturing the moment” and how to finish a painting. Also, how to paint trees, rocks and water successfully.

Michael currently studies with Albert Handell.  He has studied previously with his late mentor Ann Templeton, as well as Doug Dawson, Bob Rohm, Lois Griffel and Ray Roberts.

Michael Chesley Johnson works in oil, pastel, and gouache in the American Southwest, coastal Maine, and the Canadian Maritimes. He has been an invited artist to many national plein air painting events over the years and has competed in challenging locations such as the Grand Canyon.

Elected a Master Pastellist by Pastel Artists Canada in 2008, he is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, the Pastel Society of America, and the Pastel Society of New Mexico. He is the author of Beautiful Landscape Painting Outdoors: Mastering Plein Air, among several other art instruction books (all available from Amazon.) A long-time contributor to Pastel Journal, The Artist’s Magazine, and Watercolor Artist, he lives, paints, and teaches in Downeast Maine and the high desert of New Mexico.

For more information visit;

https://www.bluebirdstudiosantafe.com/beautiful-landscape-painting-outdoors-with-michael-chesley-johnson

connecting eyes, heart, hand:

mastering your technique, santa fe

when

5/3/2023 - 5/6/2023

where

Santa Fe Artists Getaway,

Apache Ridge Road

Santa Fe, New Mexico
United States

$800

Click here for more information.

contact info

Beverly Todd
btoddarts@gmail.com

A comprehensive, deep-diving overview of applying the philosophy that – your art is a manifestation of what you observe (eyes), combined with your emotional response (heart), and the expression of it with your hand.

 Develop your skills in this four-day intensive. You will dig deeper into how to express your subjects using an intuitive approach, while working with your unique voice.

 For artists working in a realistic, impressionistic, or expressionistic style. All 2-D mediums are welcome. Natasha’s expertise is in oil, pastel, and watercolor.

But the principles of composition, color, temperature, and value are applicable to all. You will explore materials, methods, and techniques to help you represent your subject.

This workshop is about learning to paint in your own unique voice. It is not a formula to teach all students to paint the same way. Through demonstration, discussion, and abundant studio time, you will take your personal path towards being the one-of-a-kind artist you are meant to be. As former students attest -- Natasha’s singular goal is for you to leave a better artist, a better version of YOU.

Some prior knowledge of your medium is required, however, weekenders, hobbyists as well as professionals, will gain personal power and artistic awareness. Everyone will “start where they are.”

 Max participants: 10 Registration includes lunch and refreshments.

www.natashaisenhour.com

 A New Mexico resident of 26 years, American realist, Natasha Isenhour captures emotional responses to her subjects with a contemporary edge in oil, pastel, and watercolor. Primarily a studio painter, painting in plein air also informs and trains her eye. Isenhour’s solo Exhibitions for 2022 included “The Beautiful Lonesome,” at the Taos Art Museum and Fechin Studio and “Essentially Isenhour,” at Ventana Fine Art in Santa Fe.

 In 2023 she will participate in her 3rd year at the Borrego Springs Plein Air Invitational in California where she was honored with People’s Choice and a sellout in 2022 and will serve as faculty once again for the 2023 Plein Air Convention and Expo in Denver, CO. Isenhour teaches regularly at the historic Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico where she has been an artist-in-residence the past 3 years. The November/December 2022 Art of The West Magazine features an article Isenhour penned about the importance of residency to artists.

For more information and/or to register:

https://www.santafeartistgetaway.com/service-page/connecting-eyes-heart-hands-5?referral=service_list_widget