Oregon High Desert Painting Workshop I (August 6-9)

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Schedule

  • August 6-9, 2020

About Oregon High Desert Painting Workshop I

We’re in a wait and see mode for this workshop. Harney County has had zero confirmed cases and no deaths, although one person tested positive for an antibody test. In general, rural counties are hit less hard than cities. The Hotel Diamond (where we stay for the workshops) are taking appropriate precautions: assigned bathrooms, small tables for dinner, generally plenty of space and disinfecting everything. The worry, of course, is incoming visitors bringing the virus with them. WE must be extra careful, too. Assigned bathrooms means smaller capacity at the hotel, so our workshop will have fewer painters. In the desert countryside, of course, we’ll spread out.

In this four-day workshop we’ll explore on-site landscape painting in the heart of Oregon's stunningly beautiful sagebrush desert. The workshop will focus on creating the feeling of big desert space through the development of subtle color relationships and abstraction of the observed physical forms – buttes, valleys, plains and sky.

In past years, we chose late August because the mosquitos have gone by then. But it’s also very hot. For this year, we’ve scheduled the workshop for early August. No mosquitos, not so hot. And, We’re arriving on the heels of the Full Moon. Last October, some of us painted in the moonlight with magic results. Let’s do that again!

Depending on the needs of each painter, we may delve more deeply into purposeful distortion of the seen forms of land and sky. The painting group will work out of Diamond in Harney County. Lodging and meals – scrumptious meals - at the Hotel Diamond.  

Cost

$520 tuition for 4 days of painting*
*The tuition does not include lodging or meals – Please reserve a room right away at 541-493-1898

Location

Diamond, Oregon

Registration has been closed.

Students and me painting on the Diamond Grade on a smoky day in August.

Students and me painting on the Diamond Grade on a smoky day in August.