Through its natural beauty and isolated location, Telluride’s beauty inspires. The Ah Haa School brings equally inspiring instructors and artists from around the country From painting and mixed media to writing, the Ah Haa School produces a dynamic line up of visiting artists each season. Providing both beginning and advanced students the opportunity to study with renowned regional and national artists, the Ah Haa invites you to be inspired. Take advantage of this unique opportunity, be energized by the mountain beauty and explore your creativity.
Bruce Gomez
Barbara Gilhooly
Harold O’Connor
Memphis Barbree
Jeanne Mackenzie
Plein Air Landscape Painting
June 25 - 28 | four days
Monday - Thursday
Tuition: $450
This workshop will teach students to add light and life into their landscapes by emphasizing how to get correct tone and color, giving clout to the composition and making color-mixing fun. This workshop will help the student to ‘loosen-up’ outdoors and see the big picture instead of the little detail. There will be plenty of demos and personal attention. This is a great class for students of all levels. Artists will need their own plein air easel and equipment.
Dieter Runge
Creative Woodblock Printing
July 6 - 8 | three days
Friday - Sunday | 10am - 4pm
Tuition: $400
Explore a technique that goes back hundreds of years and is still maintaining a contemporary edge. Woodblock printing is a traditional form of printing and easy to learn with a dynamic result. It is very expressive according to each artist’s personality. Participate in a 3-day woodblock printmaking workshop where you’ll create an image, carve the block, print and exhibit. Your carved block can be printed infinite times, and you can even print on shirts or most other fabrics for cool graphic representations of your creativity.
Materials: Call for supply list
Deborah Paris
Painting the Luminous Landscape
July 7 - 11 | five days
Saturday - Wednesday | 10am- 4pm
Tuition: $595
In the workshop we will focus on creating atmosphere, depth and glowing light in your landscapes, with an emphasis on atmospheric effects, particularly during the hours of dawn, sunset, dusk and evening. Learn how to incorporate indirect painting techniques like glazes, scumbles and velaturas to achieve soft luminous light and optical effects which can be obtained in no other way.
This studio workshop will introduce students to the Tonalist landscape aesthetic and techniques. Tonalism, a distinct style of landscape painting which developed in the late 19th century, is experiencing a resurgence of interest today. It is characterized by simple design, a narrow range of values, and a limited but luminous palette.
Daily demonstrations and lectures, field sketching, one on one help at your easel, presentation and discussion of the works of past masters, and an extensive Class Notebook chock full of information and resources make this workshop a rich and rewarding experience.
To learn more about Deborah and her work, please visit www.DeborahParis.com
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