Painting a Bold, Colorful Southwestern Landscape

Description

Painting a Bold, Colorful Southwestern Landscape with Joe A. Oakes

September 6, 2025 | Saturday | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Experience – All Skill Levels
Medium – Open to Acrylic, Oil or Pastel painters
Materials: Check the Materials Tab for a complete list of suggested supplies
Registration: Each student needs to enroll individually.
In-Person class at the Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio in the Art Barn.

Join award-winning artist Joe A. Oakes for a fun, info-packed, painting experience. Let’s paint the beautiful mountain landscape of AZ using bright, bold, unexpected color! Learn to take an ordinary image and transform it into an extraordinary, finished painting. Valuable art principles and important acrylic painting techniques will be discussed while we work through and complete a finished piece. This workshop will help experienced artists grow and beginners be inspired. All painting styles and skill levels are welcome. Also open to oil and pastel painters.

Composition, color, value, techniques
Give your painting depth & perspective
Color choices for impact
Structured but light and fun
Each student will create a finished painting

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Private: Joe A. Oakes

Joe A. Oakes holds a BFA from California State University, Fullerton and among his awards are Finalist in Artists Magazine’s “Acrylic Works 11 – The Best of Acrylic” and a Third Place Award for his work in “Sears Invitational” Exhibition at Sears Museum at Utah Tech in 2024. Oakes resides near Palm Springs in Southern California and currently is represented in Santa Fe, NM at San Francisco Street Gallery, Prescott, AZ at Van Gogh’s Ear and at Romero Street Gallery in Albuquerque, NM.

Paint:
For this workshop/class Joe will be using this palette:
Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Orange, Luminous Rose, Amethyst, Compose Violet, Shadow Green with the possible addition(s) of Titanium White, Cobalt Teal and Payne’s Grey.

If you’re a beginner, Joe recommend a palette that includes a warm and a cool version of each of the three primary colors, like this one:
Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Hansa Yellow Light, Red Rose Deep or Pink Matter, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Teal, Payne’s Grey

This is only a recommendation. You are welcome to use any colors and brands you choose or if you have already established your own color palette, you are more than welcome to use that.

Brands Joe likes: Holbein, M. Graham, Sennelier or Da Vinci. Some of the names of the colors Joe uses are specific to a particular brand. However, you can find similar colors in whichever brand(s) you select.

Joe will be using Luminous Rose as the underpainting color. You can also use any warm, earthy, transparent color such as Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide.

Canvas:
Stretched canvas can be found just about everywhere these days. Joe recommends purchasing the best you can afford. Better quality brands like Fredrix, will have heavier weight canvas and sturdier stretched bars. If you prefer a more rigid surface there are many to choose from. Joe likes Ampersands Aquabord and Gessobord products. Please use an 11×14 or larger substrate. As an added option, a few sheets of watercolor paper, canvas paper or boards for quick studies might be helpful.

Brushes:
Joe recommends the following Trekell or Princeton, long handle brushes: #12 or #10 natural bristle flat, #8 or #6 natural bristle filbert and #4 synthetic round.

Additional Items:
Tabletop easel
Freezer paper or 9×12 pad of palette paper
Water misting bottle
Palette knife
Water container, preferably plastic
Vine charcoal
Paper towels

If you have any questions at all, about any of the supplies, please don’t hesitate to contact Joe at joeaoakes1@gmail.com.

Cancellation Policy

Registration:

Each student must enroll individually.
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Office at 928-282-3809, ext. 1.
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.

In-Person and Online Workshops Registration/Cancellation Policy:

Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
There is a 15% Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before August 6, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after August 6, 2025.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.

Note: If traveling to Sedona, we strongly urge students to purchase refundable airline tickets or travel insurance in case of workshop cancellation due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen changes. Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for non-refundable ticket purchases or lodging fees.

Important Cancellation Policy Message:

The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.

Donna from Texas

"I'm really inspired to try painting with more vivid colors and will also begin holding my brush further back to create fluffy clouds. It was wonderful watching Joe's techniques and I look forward to the recorded version to work with while painting. I usually use watercolors and paint florals but I'm excited to try landscapes like Joe's. Thanks again for the wonderful workshop!"