We have chosen Great Oak Manor bed and breakfast, a magnificent 1700s style waterfront Chesapeake Bay estate, as the location for this workshop. All meals and lodging are available, so you never need to leave the grounds. You can paint from dawn to dark, and never tear your easel down!
Great Oak Manor is located near Chestertown, Maryland. As featured on The Today Show with travel editor Peter Greenberg, July 2005, and also featured in the February 2004 issue of Southern Living Magazine. Approved by the Maryland Bed and Breakfast Association. Featured in Karen Brown's Travel Guide. Member, Select Registry.
Lodging - Special Workshop Rates
Rate is per room and includes breakfast. Great Oak Manor has a lap pool, and a conservatory (where artists are invited to paint if the weather is bad).
Each room has a king sized bed which can be converted to two twins, making it easy to share a room with a friend.
Please check the Great Oak Manor web site for a photo and description of each room.
Tier 1 - $200 per room
Rooms: Marmaduke, D'Oench, Caulk, Russell
and Roese.
Tier 2 - $160 per room
Rooms: Hodges, Wickes, Tilden and Geddes-Piper.
Tier 3 - $136 per room
Rooms: Ringgold and Hynson.
Check in is 3 pm Sunday, April 20, 2008. Check out is noon, Friday, April 25, 2008, but you are welcome to enjoy the grounds all day until end of the workshop.
If you are interested in reserving a room at Great Oak Manor, first please enroll in the workshop with South Street Art Gallery, 410-770-8350. Then make your own room reservations with Great Oak Manor at 1-800-504-3098.
Meals
Charming and historic Chestertown is very nearby, with a choice of many fine restaurants and cafes.
Award Winning Plein Air Painter
Bethanne Kinsella Cople
"Pamper Yourself en Plein Air!"
Oil Painting Workshop at
Great Oak Manor on the Chesapeake Bay
For all levels of painters
April 21-25, 2008
$400 tuition
Pamper yourself en plein air, with award winning painter Bethanne Kinsella Cople. She will share her inspiring passion for paint, teaching the principles of plein air painting with an emphasis on composition, color and paint application -- interspersed with very constructive group critiques.
Unwind in beautiful surroundings, relax and absorb all you need to take your work to the next level!
Learn how Bethanne applies her paint with a loaded brush and a palette knife to achieve her sumptuous surfaces!
Bethanne was cited as “an artist to watch” in the February 2006 issue of Southwest Art Magazine.
