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Plein Air Painting Workshop at Oak Medow Park

A NEW PLEIN AIR CLASS THIS OCTOBER

Date: Friday October 25, 2024

Location: Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos, California

Time: 10 am to 12:30 pm

Price: $40

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This class is through Los Gatos- Saratoga Community Education and Recreation. LGS REC.

About this Course

Get inspired by the outdoors! Learn different techniques and approaches of how to paint in “plein air” or painting outdoors at the Gazebo at Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos. Learn how to choose a subject, improve your composition and design by effectively using light and dark values, color mixing and much more. This fun class is designed for all levels and all mediums through both instructor demonstration and individual instruction. Good for people who want to learn how to do travel journaling.

Materials:

Paints that you are going to use. (oils, watercolors, acrylic, gouache, pastels etc)

Brushes Water containers for most of the mediums and water carrier (bottle)

Canvas for oil painters and acrylic painters Watercolor paper for watercolors and gouache.

Sketching pad for drawing thumbnails (for all mediums)

HB pencil or No. 2B

Kneadable putty eraser and regular eraser

Easel and portable chair

Drawing board

Paper towel and a rag

Hat

Keep the materials simple so you can move around and make different sketches. The important part is to be able to sketch what you see. It is better to start with a smaller size of paper, that will give you more confidence.

Your Instructor: Elvira Rascov

Elvira Rascov, an accomplished Colombian American artist, loves to render nature in watercolors and oils. Elvira has taken her art a notch further, and used these painting techniques to create groovy functional ceramics.
Inspired by her early teachers in Bogotá, Elvira teaches Art throughout the Bay Area, making painting fun and expressive.
When she is not busy capturing the soft California landscapes with its soothing hues of yellows and greens, she is experimenting with cityscapes.

Park Location : 233 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032

Use the bottom below to register to this fun Workshop.

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Some photos of the event on September 14


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