Plein Air with Linda Borch near the Moshannon Forest

Plein Air with Linda Borch near the Moshannon Forest

Adult Class | Available

All levels
9/25/2024-10/16/2024
1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Wed
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$95.00
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Plein Air with Linda Borch near the Moshannon Forest

Adult Class | Available

We have had to relocate this class to private land near Black Moshannon State Park.  

Come and have fun learning to draw and paint at OUTSIDE near the Black Moshannon State Park, rain or shine! The goals of the workshop are not to necessarily create a frameable piece of art, but rather to learn to see, draw, compose, paint and capture the light from nature. Maybe you will even see a beautiful color for the first time! The more you paint from life, the more your studio paintings will excel. You will be forever changed! In each class there will be demonstrations and lots of one on one instruction. This workshop is suitable for beginners and advance painters alike. Students may work in acrylics, pastels or oils. 

September 25- October 16 (RAIN or SHINE) 

Class meeting details will be shared upon registration.  Thank you!


  • **Since this is an offsite class, please bring a portable easel with you, if you have one.

    ALL PAINTERS, NO MATTER WHAT MEDIUM YOU PREFER: For the textured under painting: full spectrum of acrylic colors, plus black and white (no browns or grays… cheap ones like Artist’s Loft are perfect!) ... you will need to bring this to the first class only.

  • Supply list:

    Nitrile gloves (optional)

    Gloves in a Bottle Shielding Lotion (optional)

    Cotton balls

    Kneaded eraser

    Sketchbook (I recommend a 9”x12” mixed media sketchbook)

    Powdered charcoal (General's is fine)

    Small pencil sharpener

    General’s charcoal pencil (6B extra soft)

    White charcoal pencil

    Vine charcoal

    Value scale

    Acetate to slip over value scale

    Color wheel

    Camera (cell phone is fine)

    Painting apron/smock

    Hardboard to use as a backing for your painting surface

    Painter’s tape/bulldog clips for attaching papers/boards to hard board when painting

    Watercolor paper or other heavy paper/mat board cut offs, cut to painting sizes 8”x8” (1:1), 8”x10” (4:5), 6”x8” (3:4) or 5”x10” (1:2), WITH A ½” BORDER ALL AROUND.

    ALL PAINTERS, NO MATTER WHAT MEDIUM YOU PREFER: For the textured under painting: full spectrum of acrylic colors, plus black and white (no browns or grays… cheap ones like Artist’s Loft are perfect!) ... you will need to bring this to the first class only.

    Used, clean plastic bags or the sealed air packing from boxes or saran wrap for spreading the acrylic under painting

    Clear gesso (for oil and acrylic painters)

    Clear Pastel Primer (such as Art Spectrum Colorfix Pastel Primer) for pastel painters

    1”-2” brush for applying gesso or primer

    Artist grade oil paints or acrylic paints (I use Golden Open Acrylics)

    You may use a limited palette (Titanium/Zinc White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Ultramarine Blue)

    OR

    You may use a modified limited palette of the above colors with the addition of Cadmium Yellow Deep, Alizarin Crimson and Pthalo Blue.

    Pastel painters, please bring a wide array of pure colors and values from around the color wheel.

    Paint palette and/or pastel box (I use Masterson Palette Seal for oils and acrylics. I use a sheet of grey palette paper in the bottom with sheet of glass over it… and Dakota Art Pastel box for my plein air work)

    Paper towels

    Your preferred paint brushes for landscape painting (I use mainly bristle rounds and flats for oils, mainly synthetic rounds and flats for acrylics, ¾”- ¼” flats/1-4 rounds)

    Palette knives for mixing colors as well as painting with

    Retarder medium for acrylic painters

    Odorless Mineral Spirits if painting in oils

    Water container

     

    **Since this is an offsite class, please bring a portable easel with you, if you have one.

Linda Borch