Autumn Light En Plein Air Workshop with Susan Overstreet: 3 Days October 15- 17, 1 pm-4 pm

Autumn Light PLein Air Workshop with Susan Overstreet

Oct 15, 16, 17 – 3 days. (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

1:00 – 4:00 pm

$250 Members, $275 Non- Members

Be inspired by the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s beautiful sculpture garden as you learn to paint outdoors. Susan Overstreet will discuss the unique aspects of painting en plein air and the various atmospheric conditions that affect light, color and perspective. The class will focus on color composition, as well as encouraging artists to loosen up and allow for more spontaneity in their paintings.

Material

Bring an en plein air easel if you have one, otherwise an easel will be provided. Inform the museum if you need an easel set up for you. Palette, palette knives, brushes of various sizes: flats, rounds, filberts and brights, canvases (at least two per day) no smaller than 11x14, 16x20 preferred. Color: cadmium yellow medium, cadmium lemon or light, cadmium red light, permanent rose, magenta, manganese blue, ultramarine blue, titanium white. If you have colors you like please bring them. You don’t need a medium but if you have one you prefer, please bring it. Rags or paper towels. Sunscreen, hat.

About Susan Overstreet

Susan Overstreet’s creative process of weaving vibrant colors with a technique of palette knife and brushwork captures a visual tapestry between abstract imagery and representation. Overstreet’s bold expressive style is driven by unique natural elements found on Cape Cod that offer an evolving kaleidoscope of color. “I work quickly. Capturing the subject extemporaneously is vital to breathing life into it visually,” explains Overstreet. “Knowing what the paint can do by experimenting with its properties, I move the paint around the canvas until the image emerges.” She paints en plein air and in the studio, inspired by both landscape and the human figure. Susan completed studio work at George Washington University, and continued studying fine arts at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art League School of Alexandria. Her work was accepted in many juried competitions in Virginia and now on Cape Cod. Susan has exhibited at The Provincetown Art Museum, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She taught art to children in Fairfax Public Schools, and served as president of the Springfield Art Guild. Susan teaches at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Milford Arts Council and at the PAAM. Website: SusanOverstreet.com

Cancellation policy: 

Rain date – Instructor will provide make up date as agreed with students, or the class will be held indoors in the CCMoA Ed Center. If held inside the Education Center, students must wear masks and have proof of vaccination.

Student cancellation – CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.