AOW 901 - PLEIN AIR TRAVEL PAINTING, In Watercolor and Mixed Wet Media
Instructor: Jacob Higginbottom
Level: All levels welcome

Make your next visit to a foreign city more meaningful and memorable. Sign up for Fort Point artist, Jacob Higginbottom’s fun & creative watercolor workshop. Higginbottom’s paintings are informed by his life-long passion for world travel, architecture and urban environments.
Under his guidance, you will learn to see and record the unique variations of city life quickly, spontaneously and accurately. Leave your camera behind and learn why watercolor, with its ease of portability and compatibility with other mediums, has long been a favorite choice of artists over the centuries wishing to record observations from their travels.

This class will focus on:
• Highlighting a center of interest
• Freehand sketching of cityscapes
• How to achieve strong value contrast and color harmony with watercolor
• Introduction to gesso, gouache and ink as tools for unifying a composition
• Developing a sense of personal style using a very limited set of colors and materials.

Anyone with a passion for travel is welcome though basic drawing and painting skills are recommended.

Session I - AOW 901
Date: tbd
Time: 9am to 4pm
Workshop Fee: --
PDPs: --
Materials: Materials are not included. (materials list)
Registration Deadline: tbd

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AOW 802 - SEA & CITYSCAPE
Instructor: Joel Babb
Level: Previous painting experience recommended

Seaports and harbors carry a rich and vibrant artistic history. Joel Babb, one of New England’s foremost realist painters will teach this unique plein-air workshop. Each session will take place in and around the Seaport District’s newly opened Harbor Walk. Mr. Babb will demonstrate methods of the alla prima color sketch, which puts an emphasis on working quickly, accurately and intuitively. The class will focus on observable physical aspects of the sea and sky such as how the atmosphere affects color and contrast, and how the hierarchy of values affects a painting’s integrity. Ongoing constructive critiques allow for group discussion and appreciation of the work.

Workshop Objectives:
• To reconcile the intuitive core of the plein air experience with the logic of studio development.
• To incorporate reference material into finished compositions for practical application in the studio or classroom.
• To understand how seaports and harbors have fascinated and inspired painters beginning with the golden age of Dutch painting through present day.

Materials: Materials are not included. (materials list)

Dates: tbd
Time: 9am to 4pm
Workshop Fee: --
PDPs: --
Registration Deadline: tbd

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Fort Point Studio School is pleased to offer a unique plein-air workshop with Vincent Crotty,
the 2001 recipient of the John Stobart Foundation Award for Excellence in Plein Air Painting. The ability to capture the changing effects of late afternoon and evening light is one of the many problems facing plein-air painters. In this workshop, Crotty has chosen the June solstice weekend with its extended hours of daylight and unparalleled opportunities for color study to share his methods of painting the urban nocturne in Fort Point Channel's historic waterfront district.

Learn how to:
• Control color and value in low-light painting conditions.
• Add mood and atmosphere by incorporating ambient light sources; street lights, car head lights and light emanating from building interiors.
• Add touches of life to a scene by incorporating pedestrians and cars.
• Take everyday buildings and make beautifully designed paintings using light shadow & mass.
• Strengthen wet-on-wet painting skills by working directly and spontaneously.

Dates: tbd
Time: 3pm to 9pm
Workshop Fee: --
PDPs: --
Materials: Materials are not included in course fee. (materials list)
Registration Deadline: tbd

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Escape the noise and confusion of city life and immerse yourself in the color, texture and tranquility of the Kelleher Rose Garden, an urban oasis with over 200 species of roses in full-bloom. This plein-air workshop will focus on the visually charged subject of the Rose Garden by translating light, color and pattern in terms of composition, form and value.

Dates: tbd
Time: 9am to 4pm
Workshop Fee: --
PDPs: --
Materials: Materials are not included in course fee. (materials list)
Registration Deadline: tbd

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