Current Workshops
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Tony Allain: "Creativity Untamed; From Sketch to Frame"
February 6, 2021 OR February 20, 2021 10-4 PM EST A one-day Zoom workshop designed to help you go beyond your photo reference in your painting Our February 6th Workshop is full!
We're opening a 2nd workshop on Feb. 20th, and you can either register on the waitlist for Feb. 6th, or register for Feb. 20th. Click the button above to register. |
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"Have you ever wanted to bring a looser and more painterly feel to your work loaded with juicy colour and flooded with light? Join me and I will share some of my working methods concentrating on painting landscapes, seascapes, figures and still life subjects that delight you and excite the viewer. Using ... sketches and thumbnails along with our reference material we can bring some fresh colour and a more painterly feel to our works." - Tony Allain
About Tony Allain PS, PSA, ARSMA, MC/IAPS, MPANZ
Award winning painter, instructor and author Tony Allain has been painting for over 40 years. A self-taught painter of colour, light and movement with a complete understanding of his surroundings. Born and raised on Guernsey in the Channel Islands he moved to paint and live in Cornwall, UK to capture the unique clarity of light living on the peninsular of the West Country. Tony has exhibited extensively over the years; his work can be found in many leading galleries as well as private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Maritime Museum, Guernsey and Queen Mary 2, Cunard Ocean Liner. He has exhibited with The Pastel Society of America in New York, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, London, The International Pastel Exhibition, Suzhou, China and the Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London. A move to New Zealand in 2006 proved to be a turning point in his career with the acceptance as a Master of the Pastel Artists of New Zealand. His work is regularly featured in The Artist Magazine, the Pastel Journal and the Practique des Arts. He is a member of The Pastel Society, London,UK, the Master Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies, the Pastel Society of the West Coast, the Red Rocks Pastel Society, the German Pastel Society, a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, and an Associate member of The Royal Society of Marine Artists, London, UK. Tony now lives and works from his studio in Scotland. Visit his website to learn more.
"My passion will always be the landscape, it is why I became an artist. I want to share my vision of the world I see. Colour and light is my motivation for choosing a subject. The light sparkling on the water, the colour reflected in the landscape. I favour the early morning or late afternoon to capture these effects. I think an artist has to allow their surroundings to firstly reveal itself in a way that helps them share their vision with others. The quest for perfection can bring with it fear of making mistakes and can result in a style which can seem inhibited. I am not interested in pure representation; my work is about responses to the moods and atmospheres generated by landscape, still life or interior. The most precious thing we artists have is our visual language."
Award winning painter, instructor and author Tony Allain has been painting for over 40 years. A self-taught painter of colour, light and movement with a complete understanding of his surroundings. Born and raised on Guernsey in the Channel Islands he moved to paint and live in Cornwall, UK to capture the unique clarity of light living on the peninsular of the West Country. Tony has exhibited extensively over the years; his work can be found in many leading galleries as well as private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Maritime Museum, Guernsey and Queen Mary 2, Cunard Ocean Liner. He has exhibited with The Pastel Society of America in New York, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, London, The International Pastel Exhibition, Suzhou, China and the Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London. A move to New Zealand in 2006 proved to be a turning point in his career with the acceptance as a Master of the Pastel Artists of New Zealand. His work is regularly featured in The Artist Magazine, the Pastel Journal and the Practique des Arts. He is a member of The Pastel Society, London,UK, the Master Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies, the Pastel Society of the West Coast, the Red Rocks Pastel Society, the German Pastel Society, a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, and an Associate member of The Royal Society of Marine Artists, London, UK. Tony now lives and works from his studio in Scotland. Visit his website to learn more.
"My passion will always be the landscape, it is why I became an artist. I want to share my vision of the world I see. Colour and light is my motivation for choosing a subject. The light sparkling on the water, the colour reflected in the landscape. I favour the early morning or late afternoon to capture these effects. I think an artist has to allow their surroundings to firstly reveal itself in a way that helps them share their vision with others. The quest for perfection can bring with it fear of making mistakes and can result in a style which can seem inhibited. I am not interested in pure representation; my work is about responses to the moods and atmospheres generated by landscape, still life or interior. The most precious thing we artists have is our visual language."
Upcoming Workshops
Laura Pollak: "Abstracting the Landscape-Getting the Glow"
May 21-23, 2021, 11-5 PM Daily, Eastern time via Zoom
May 21-23, 2021, 11-5 PM Daily, Eastern time via Zoom
"This is a fast paced 3-day workshop filled with valuable information on taking a landscape and making it uniquely yours by pushing the boundaries of reality into abstraction. There will be units moving from 'local color' to the colors that Glow." Click here for more details about this workshop.
About Laura Pollak: "Laura is an award winning Fine Artist, showing her works in galleries and museums across the nation. Her works have been juried into National and International Shows. Most recently Laura won Second Place in the Pastel Soci- ety of the West Coast Online Show in the Signature Category, won First Place in the North Carolina Statewide Show, Honorable Mention in the Pastel 100 and Best of Show in the FASO online show. She has been featured in Strokes of Genius, had articles in Pastel Journal and is currently featured in the French Magazine, Pratique des Arts. Laura is the Past President of the Pastel Society of North Carolina, is a PSA Signature Member as well as Signature Member in PSWC, PSNC and SPS." Click here to see Laura's complete bio. Learn more about Laura at her website.