This year James M. Quimby, SR. Scholarships are available for the following workshops:

• Fascinating Textures in Watercolor
• Key Elements in Plein Air Painting

The Mystery of White

Saturday, April 1 9a.m. – 3:00p.m.

Led by Gary Eckhart
Registration Required     »register now

Gary Eckhart invites you to a one-day workshop on the 1st of April, where he will be teaching you how to painting white subjects on white watercolor paper is easy and fun once you remove the mystery of the process. With the knowledge of how to use a full range of values to develop form you will be able to create paintings where your whites sparkle, your colors are clean and clear and your paintings have depth and focus. Solve this mystery through experiments and practical exercises and apply the findings to a finished painting. Gary Eckhart has taught for many years and the Gallery is honored to be working with him to bring you a fun educational day with a spectacular workshop.

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome. However, the participating artist should have an understanding of and be comfortable with the watercolor medium.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

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Introduction to Acrylic Painting

Saturday, April 15 - Sunday, April 16 10a.m. – 4p.m.

Led by Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.
Registration Required     »register now

In this class students will learn the basics of painting with acrylic paints. Topics include: differences between acrylics and oils, mixing colors, using additives for acrylic paints, types of brushes, creating effects with various brush stroke techniques, composing a painting, and transferring images to canvas. After students learn the basics, they will work with the teacher to create at least one finished acrylic painting. This class is open to students at all skill levels.

Robert Waldo Brunelle is a painter, kinetic sculptor, book illustrator, art educator and political cartoonist.  He was the art teacher at the Browns River Middle School from 1981 to 2012.  He served as the president of the Northern Vermont Artist Association from 1995 to 2012, and now serves as the NVAA’s Vice President.  He has been exhibiting his paintings in the region since 1978.  He is a founding member of the Vermont Comic Creator’s Group, and his cartoon strip Mr. Brunelle Explains It All appears weekly in Seven Days, and monthly in Funny Times. 

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

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From Outside to Inside: Finishing your work in the Studio

Monday, April 17 - Wednesday, April 19 9a.m. – 4p.m.

Led by Leo Mancini-Hresko
Registration Required     »register now

The vast majority of landscape painting classes today focus on what’s in the name: painting outside in nature, to try to get all the scale, drawing, effects and delights of the outdoors on canvas in just a few hours.  Yet, if you ask most artists who makes a living selling landscapes, they will tell you that the majority of the work happens indoors.

Historically, painting in the field is where concepts become crystalline, but major works that are remembered from historic artists careers were often clearly painted in the studio – whether only touched up indoors, or completely painted from scratch.  Clearly, this is an important part of the process that few classes today discuss.  Frankly, most people learning to paint outside are just scrambling to get everything down.  It just takes so long to learn to reproduce aspects of nature faithfully that many don’t have time at all to study the myriad options of what you might do with a painting once it’s inside.

During the demonstration portion, we will be showing where and how a photograph might be useful - or not useful at all.  For those interested, we can paint a study outdoors.  Expect compositional studies, and a couple of glazing and scumbling ‘finishing’ demonstrations.

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome. However, the participating artist should have an understanding of and experience in outdoor painting. Each student will be expected to come in with at least one well thought out sketch they would like to turn into a larger painting.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

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The Splendor of Color: A Palette Knife Painting Workshop

Monday, May 1 - Wednesday, May 3 10a.m. – 4p.m.

Led by Cynthia Rosen
Registration Required     »register now

Cynthia Rosen invites you to a 3-day palette knife workshop where you will focus on color: from mixing, understanding warm and cool colors, effective uses of the knife, and techniques of application. 

While the palette knife can be used to enhance brush paintings, it is also the perfect tool for impressionistic and even abstracted images rich in color as the freedom it affords adds vibrancy to one’s work. 

While daily demos will address specific issues, my teaching process is individualized to assist each participant to grow their personal visual voice. 

The first two days will focus on different subjects with instruction and demos from the instructor. The last day will be used as a choice of which subject you wish to follow, along with continued guidance from your instructor when assistance is needed.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email. 

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

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Painting Peonies in Oil

Monday, June 5 - Tuesday, June 6 10a.m. – 4p.m.

Led by Douglas David
Registration Required     »register now

Class will cover the basic principles of oil painting with regard to painting Peonies. Dynamic compositions with arrangements that are elegant and sophisticated, casual and relaxed while all keeping a bold direction will be the focus for this 2-day workshop. Includes interesting and memorable discussions on composition, massing, building form, light and shadow: and depending on your own style, knowing when a work is finished (learning how to not overwork your painting). Douglas delivers sound principles of painting that are an incredible foundation for your painting, whether a beginner or seasoned professional.

After the brief morning intro, a very hands-on approach to the class, gets students mixing colors and preparing to paint. Students will work in their own style/technique so that the finished work is their own. Douglas will overview his palette and concepts that his work entails. Students will mix paints and learn to mix basic strings of color to help comprehend how this preparation makes the painting process a little simpler and gets a working understanding of the value/ strings of color. Students will work from photos that are provided.

An incredible 2-day hands on painting experience will yield a good number of paintings and a logical thought process in a fun yet focused atmosphere to help you guide your future study. Your paintings can be as complicated or as simple as needed. Demos and individual discussions/instruction will help each student to start to begin to reach the preliminary goals they are striving to meet. Plan to bring notebook/sketchbook and enjoy some demos along with some great stories to help you remember the principles that are the foundation of Douglas’ teaching.

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome. However, the participating artist should have an understanding of and be comfortable with the watercolor medium.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

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Key Elements in Plein Air Painting

Saturday, June 10 - Sunday, June 11 9a.m. – 4p.m.

Led by George Van Hook
Registration Required     »register now

George Van Hook invites you to a two-day summer workshop, where you will learn composition, laying out the pallet, proper use of materials and all other aspects of plein air painting. George stresses alla prima painting and using a loose and fast approach to capture the landscape in the first try. Participants will be meeting on location and painting all day from 9am - 4pm. Workshop includes live demos and individual attention.

You will begin each day with a demo by the artist. You will then break up into groups and paint individually.  He will then provide individual instruction helping solve the issues for each artist.  After lunch, he will do a quick demo to refresh the ideas presented at the start. Painters will start a second painting for the afternoon with additional individual instruction. 

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

Thanks to the James M. Quimby, SR., Scholarship Fund, one artist will be chosen for a full scholarship (workshop only) for this workshop.

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Introduction to Palette Knife Painting en Plein Air

Monday, July 24 - Tuesday, July 25 10a.m. – 4p.m.

Led by Melanie Levitt
Registration Required     »register now

Join award winning palette knife painter, Melanie Levitt, as she invites you to her two-day workshop, “Introduction to Palette Knife Painting”! In this weekend workshop designed for self-expression. This class will take place both inside the studio and outside on location.

The focus of this class will be on how to paint an entire painting in oils with a palette knife creating interesting marks and textures. Through demonstration and individual attention, students will learn how to distill the important information from the landscape and translate it onto the canvas. Melanie will address the importance of sketching/composition, how to create depth & light in a painting, color mixing, energetic mark making, and how to choose a stain color for your scene. All this will be taught in an understandable step by step process which will lead students to improve their ability to simplify the landscape and create a dynamic painting in a short time.

This class is suitable for the beginner or the intermediate student who want to loosen up and learn how to paint with a palette knife. We will meet at Bryan Memorial Gallery for a morning session and then head outdoors, weather permitting. Painting locations TBD. In case of inclement weather, we will paint at the gallery.

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

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Fascinating Textures in Watercolor

Saturday, August 26 - Sunday, August 27 9a.m. – 3:00p.m.

Led by Gary Eckhart
Registration Required     »register now

Gary Eckhart invites you to join him in a two-day workshop! The world around us is filled with endless and fascinating textures. Understanding how to interpret and incorporate these textures in your paintings results in exciting and visually stimulating works of art. Exploring the means of reproducing textures with visual depth and clarity is the focus of this two-day workshop. A series of demonstrations and practical exercises leading to finished paintings are part of the two sessions. Gary Eckhart has taught for many years and the Gallery is honored to be working with him to bring you a fun educational weekend with a spectacular workshop.

Artists at any stage of their development are welcome. However, the participating artist should have an understanding of and be comfortable with the watercolor medium.

Upon receiving your registration, a materials list, a daily schedule and recommendations for accommodations and restaurants will be sent to you via email.

Participants are responsible for their own art materials and their own meals and accommodations.

Thanks to the James M. Quimby, SR., Scholarship Fund, one artist will be chosen for a full scholarship (workshop only) for this workshop.

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Demonstrations

Sunday, April 23 - 12a.m. - 2p.m.

Oil Painting Demonstration

Led by Liane Whittum
No Registration Required unless specified in the description below.

Join Bryan Memorial Gallery on April 23 from 12-2pm as we welcome artist Liane Whittum to the Gallery. Liane will provide attendees the chance to see how she creates her realistic works of art, and answer any questions people may have. 

Liane’s work focuses on pastoral, industrial, and wild landscapes; also focusing heavily on still life work. She transitions between still life, landscape and plein air work, done primarily in oil paint in a classical realism style. Liane often goes out to gather information on site and paints plein-air when composing landscape paintings, and then finish her paintings in her studio, which after consideration may be complete as a loose work, or become a more involved work of higher refinement. 
Liane Whittum is a professional artist with over 27 years of experience painting with oils.  Liane has a BA in Studio Art from New England College with a concentration in painting. She works out of her home-based studio in Hill NH where she focuses primarily on landscapes and still life in a style of traditional realism.  More recently she has been devoting a large amount of time to painting “en plein air”. She has been in many National and International shows and competitions where she has won numerous awards including;
Best Floral from the International Guild of Realism, Best Landscape from the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, The Southwest Art Magazine award from American Women Artists, the Audubon Artists Inc. Award from The Salmagundi Club in NYC, and most recently a Staff Award from the 16th Annual Art Renewal Center Salon.
Liane is a member of The National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Oil painters of America, and a Signature member of American Women Artists. 

This event will be held in the East Gallery, and is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and seating is on a first come basis. Registration is not required.

The demonstration is part of Bryan Gallery's annual educational Cabin Fever Series.