This workshop explores the importance of painting outdoors for stronger landscape painting. Learn how to simplify the complex elements found in the landscape and sky; as well as how to improve your composition, values, light patterns, design, color and atmospheric perspective.
Sara is known for her very informative painting demonstrations, her kindness and generosity as a teacher, and for giving lots of personal attention!
This workshop will be outdoors, on the grounds of a beautiful private Dorchester County Neck District farm, with indoor facilities available in the event of bad weather.
Students may be from beginner to advanced level plein air painters. They should have a solid knowledge of the medium they will use. Oil or water based oils are recommended, and pastels are welcome. Acrylics should be used only if the student knows the medium well and can handle the rapid drying process of this medium when used outdoors.
The workshop sessions are on the grounds of a beautiful private Dorchester County Neck District farm, with indoor facilies available in the event of bad weather. There will be morning and afternoon talks and demos, followed by hands on painting, and group critiques. Please bring your own lunch.
Sara Linda Polylives in Arlington, Virginia. She began serious art studies when in her early thirties while living in Virginia and Maryland, where she attended college. She went on to study with various local and nationally known artists.
Poly is known for her sweeping skies and landscapes. Her work is inspired by local eastern scenes, western vistas, and other locations to which her love of plein air painting has taken her. She teaches outdoor landscape painting workshops through South Street Art Gallery.
"I have always been at home under the open sky, loving the outdoors and nature. Studying, observing and expressing this love in my art is my joy. I am taken by the subtle and dramatic changes in the weather and seasons and how they affect the quality of light. To paint the landscape is to bond with the natural world, to feel its rhythm and to sense its every form. It is like coming home."
A member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters of America, the Oil Painters of America, and Landscape Artists International, she maintains a studio in Arlington, Virginia.
