Description
Building a Sedona Landscape: The First Steps
with Ed Buonvecchio
May 3-4, 2025 | Saturday & Sunday | 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m.
- Experience Level: Beginner to Experienced
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Materials List: Click the tab above for a list of materials students need to bring with them.
- Registration: Each student needs to enroll individually.
- Location: On location around Sedona and at the Sedona Arts Center, Art Barn building.
Have you ever felt intimidated by the stark white of a canvas on your easel all ready to receive its first brush stroke? How do I begin? Where do I start? How do I make my best painting out of the beautiful but busy scene I’ve selected to paint? How do I make sense of it all? Even experienced painters sometimes stress about these things. Ed will show you how by demonstrating and guiding you in the fundamentals of plein air painting among the magnificence of Sedona.
On day one, we will be exploring the red rocks and babbling creeks of Sedona, drawing in our sketchpads or journals learning about the importance of value studies by observational drawing and “coloring in” shapes and shadows, breaking down your scenes into only three to four values. Value studies are meant to keep us from “chasing the light” by freezing the shapes of shadows that are always moving with the passage of time. The students will be urged to take photos of the sites they draw as reference and notate in their pads or journals the nuances of the colors they observe in the field… kind of like a journal of paintings in waiting.
On day two we will explore the pros and cons of toning your panel and will learn the different techniques of transferring your value studies to your panel by using a brush to draw and block-in the basic shapes and values with basic color.
This workshop is the perfect segue into Helene Farrar’s two-part encaustic workshop. We will be drawing and creating value studies on our drawing pads on-site that would be compositional in preparation for Helene Farrar’s following two-day encaustic workshop. These value studies will then be finished in full color during Helene’s encaustic sessions.
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