2024 Summer Arts Workshops
Registration opens January 22 at 10:00 a.m. PST. We look forward to creating with you in Tahoe!
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Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting with Phyllis Shafer, June 24-28
Explore the techniques of painting the Sierra Nevada landscape “en plein air” with local artist, Phyllis Shafer. Appropriate for all skill levels, this workshop will cover the basics of landscape oil painting. Practicing an efficient and workable set-up in the field and developing compositions that emphasize a personal interpretation of nature. There will be discussions and demonstrations focused on color theory, color mixing, perspective, and brushwork.
About the artist
Originally from upstate New York, Phyllis Shafer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Potsdam. After a three-year stint on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Shafer moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1984. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Shafer moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1994 to accept a full-time teaching position at Lake Tahoe Community College, a position from which she has recently retired. Her move to the Sierra Nevada Mountains deepened her interest in landscape painting and initiated her most mature body of artwork: plein air landscape paintings of the Sierra Nevada and the American West.
As a practicing artist, Shafer has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1984. She is currently represented by Stremmel Gallery in Reno, NV, where she has had seven solo exhibitions. Her artwork is in many private and public collections throughout the western United States.
Phyllis Shafer's artist website
Cost: $850 + $50 Material Fee