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This two-day workshop will introduce intermediate and advanced artists to an exciting approach to painting the landscape. Working on site in the diverse landscape of Central Park in New York City, artists will learn how to quickly launch into a plein air study in a bold, abstract way, and then develop refinement, subtlety and finish. Form, light and shade, paint handling and color will be discussed through one-on-one critiques and demonstrations.
Instructor Christopher Gallego has been teaching group and private classes for over fifteen years. Gallego’s work has appeared in over a dozen major museums and many more gallery exhibitions nationwide, and has been featured in Art in America, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Veranda Magazine and American Artist. He has received awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information, please visit www.chrisgallego.com.
I will be assisting Chris during this workshop. Please be sure to mention that you heard about the workshop from me when you register.
Number of participants limited to 15. Sign up today!
Workshop Fee: $250 through 9/20/09; $275 after 9/20/09
To register or for more information: please contact Christopher at gallego@chrisgallego.com, tel. 845.532.4509; or Ella at yangella@aol.com.
Fortunately I’ve been able to escape the city a few times this summer. Here are two paintings from a trio I painted on-site by a wonderful stream in the Catskills. The third is on my easel getting some touch-ups.
Drying Off By Waterfalls, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches
Swimming Hole, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches
Once the third one is finished I’ll add them to my website.
Just found out that the lovely plein air exhibition “A River Runs Through It” hosted by Windham Fine Arts has been extended through Labor Day weekend, and will now close on September 7, 2009. It’s a perfect time of year to visit the Catskills – cooler than in NYC, that’s for sure! Visit www.windhamfinearts.com for details.
House Overlooking the Hudson
Don’t miss this painting as well as six others I have in this show, depicting Riverside Park, the little red lighthouse at the base of the George Washington Bridge, Tarrytown Marina, park in Buchanan, NY, and a couple of views from Peekskill, NY. Visit EllaYangStudio.com to see the paintings (look in City and Country).
This summer I decided to try doing some loose, relaxed oil sketches of scenes that strike me in some way as nice, and maybe possibilities for bigger, more finished paintings. These are all 9×12 inches mostly on archival plein air painting panels from ArtBoards, a Brooklyn-based company. I’ll be adding them to my website soon – they’ll be well-priced, so stay tuned!
I painted these in the Catskill Mountains:
Red House by Woods
Lake Beach
And these I did in my neighoborhood in Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Path in Prospect Park
