All inclusive creative retreats, painting vacations & art getaways
Alain Picard
August 4 - 8, 2024
The Painterly Landscape Painting Retreat
Medium: Pastel
Level: All Levels
Location: Studio
Status: Completed
Rates & Enrollment
Deposit is $450, balance due 30 days before arrival
Day Student Tuition: $975 + Materials fee & Ct Sales Tax
Inn-Stay Student Package*: $1,950 - $2,650* + Materials fee & Ct Accommodations Tax
* Your Inn-Stay Retreat Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, lodging, 4 nights of dinner, 4 days of breakfast and lunch, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer.
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You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
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About This Workshop
Workshop Description: The Painterly Landscape Painting Retreat
This unique painting retreat is a rare opportunity to join Alain in the beautiful setting of the CT River Valley to loosen up your landscapes! We’ll work both in the studio and outdoors on the grounds and gardens of the beautiful CT River Valley Inn. Enjoy an onsite retreat setting with chef prepared meals, room and board and 24 hour studio access.
This workshop is designed to empower you with successful strategies for loosening up your landscapes with bold marks and fresh color. Learn to simplify complex scenes into clear shapes, values, and edges. Organize these shapes into strong design and color combinations using bold, expressive marks to interpret your environment for a lush painterly look. Discover innovative approaches to color through the use of underpainting techniques and interpretive color strategies that will break you out of your routine.
Each day, Alain will demonstrate a painterly approach to the landscape, focusing on a unique subject and approach. Students will then respond to the lesson, beginning with exercises that help loosen up their work and practicing techniques to simplify the subject. Students will progress to loosely finished landscape paintings by the end of the workshop. A constructive and encouraging group critique will conclude our workshop together. Plein air outings will be combined with studio sessions to deepen our understanding of how to loosen up.
What will the students learn?
How to work in a painterly style
How to clarify your vision for each painting
How to break through creative barriers and paint more confidently
How to design dynamic compositions using thumbnails
How to simplify complex scenes into a pattern of shapes
How to loosen up your strokes and make bold marks of color
How to simplify and see value and interpret color choices
How to use underpainting techniques that will activate your scene
How to take risks that will lead to new discoveries in your work
How to capture the impression of the scene on location
And lots more!
About Alain Picard
Alain J. Picard is an award-winning artist, instructor, author and speaker. His acclaimed pastel and oil paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, China and the UK. Alain travels internationally as an art instructor, demonstrator, speaker and artistic advocate for the vulnerable.
Alain’s work and writing have been featured on numerous occasions in such publications as The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal, and Practique des Arts. In an effort to share his passion for art, Alain has written three instructional books, including “Mastering Pastel” and “Beginning Drawing,” and stars in a growing collection of instructional art videos.
Alain has lectured and demonstrated for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Arts Club in New York City, Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, the IAPS Convention in Albuquerque, NM, and the Biennial International Pastel Art Exhibition at Ming Gallery in Suzhou, China.
Alain has garnered top awards in esteemed exhibitions, including the Pastel Society of America, The American Artists Professional League, Hudson Valley Art Association, the Portrait Society of America, and the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS). He is a judge and juror of international exhibitions, and a sought-after portrait artist and landscape painter. He makes his home in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.
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Here is the payment schedule:
$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Remaining balance is due 30 days before your retreat start date
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