Author: cparker

Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25, 2023 — 9:30 am to 12:30 Rain dates: July 1-2. Enjoy the fun of “Urban Sketching”, the practice of sketching on location in cities and towns or rural areas with buildings. Urban sketching is a growing movement, with local groups and an international organization devoted to promoting the practice. In…

Presented by Jester Artspace. Improve your confidence when sketching and painting architectural subjects with a workshop in linear perspective. We’ll make basic perspective drawings, with horizon line, vanishing points and measuring points, and then learn how to apply that knowledge to sketching and painting in the field. We’ll also explore a method of drawing perspective…

Saturday & Sunday, September 24 & 25, 9:00am – 12:00pm, rain dates: October 1 & 2 — presented by the Delaware Art Museum. A weekend workshop in plein air painting in oil — the painting medium of the great masters — but without toxic solvents! This time we will be painting in the beautiful Copeland…

Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, 2022 — 9:00 am to noon Enjoy the fun of “Urban Sketching”, the practice of sketching on location in cities and towns. Urban sketching is a growing movement, with local groups and an international organization devoted to promoting the practice. In this two-day workshop on the shady green…

Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26, 9:30am – 12:30pm, rain dates: July 9 & 10 A weekend workshop in plein air painting in the fun and forgiving medium of gouache (opaque watercolor), presented by the Delaware Art Museum. This time we will be painting out in front of the Museum, along the beautiful Kentmere…

Strengthen your understanding of linear perspective for sketching and painting architectural subjects. Location: Historic Newark Union Church and Cemetery, north of Wilmington

August 21 and 28; 9am-noon A two-day workshop in painting outdoors with gouache at Talley Day Park on Foulk Road, north of Wilmington. Techniques will include choosing a landscape composition, gouache paint handling, mixing a wide range of colors from a simplified palette, handling atmospheric perspective and creating textures for trees, grasses and other landscape…

Saturdays, July 17th & 24th (rain date July 31) 9:30 am to 12:30 pm We’ll be painting in the museum’s beautiful Copeland Sculpture Garden. The workshop will feature both a demo painting by the instructor and individual instruction. Techniques will include choosing a landscape composition, gouache paint handling, mixing a wide range of colors from…