Registration deadline: September 7, 2023

Join our three-day (Sept. 28-30) workshop focused on developing a large landscape painting. This workshop aims to address the common struggle artists face in maintaining a sustained effort and the importance of taking breaks during the painting process. Led by John P. Lasater IV, an acclaimed artist known for his numerous awards in national competitions and his expertise in landscape subjects, participants will learn techniques to infuse vitality into their studio landscape paintings. John's mastery of pictorial concepts, open-form painting, naturalism, sophisticated color mixing, and design principles will be shared through insightful lectures, daily demonstrations on one large painting of his own, and hands-on guidance as students develop one large landscape over three days. Prepare to be enlightened and challenged by his wealth of experience in painting and teaching.

Here’s what artists have said about John’s workshops: 

“Though I’m not a workshop junkie, I’ve been to enough workshops to realize that good painters  are not necessarily good teachers. You are consistently good at both. I’m happy if I take away  one or two useful concepts from a workshop, but I have learned a great deal more from you.” —Megan L 

“I felt that after you got to know our individual abilities, you really fine-tuned your comments for  each of us. I also appreciated how open you were in answering questions…and your humor. Your  workshop left me feeling prepared, motivated and inspired to continue my own practice. Thanks,  again, for being so generous with your talent and knowledge.”  —Jenny W 

“You taught me something more than ‘how to paint what I see’ more effectively, although I did  learn that. I came away from the workshop understanding more about creating art. Every person  in the workshop produced work that seemed to reflect their own spirit and their own journey. It  was a pretty special learning experience.” —Kathryn F

Teaching Objectives:

• How to choose an image that has pictorial potential

• Seeing the essence of a photo or reference

• Ways to start and sustain a landscape painting

• Creating a sense of space in a painting

• When and how to utilize atmospheric perspective

• Eyeflow in design

• Pushing harmony in the color relationships

• Wet-on-wet oil painting, and ways to use your tools

• Embracing struggle, push and pull

• Landscape painting in its current historical context and remaining frontiers of artistic exploration in landscape painting.

Supply List:

Bring one large canvas (18x24 up to 24x36 approx.), and photo references to choose from. My online supply list is HERE.