Arts on Main

Community Arts Center in Gloucester, Virginia

Plein Air Oil Painting Demonstration with Thomas Bradshaw

October 21

5:00-6:15

Join us for a demonstration by Artist in Residence, Thomas Bradshaw. Winner of the 2021 GAF Artists’ Choice Award, Thomas will share oil painting techniques.

Bradshaw’s loose painterly style allows him to imply detail without overstating it. His brushwork and use of a palette knife creates a textural impression which draws the viewer in for a closer look. With a limited palette, Bradshaw brings to life the way in which a shimmering light will illuminate the scene as a single moment in time.

This event will take place at Arts on Main in the main gallery and is free and open to the public.

Virtual Lecture & Short Demo with Hai-Ou Hou

A free lecture, and short demo, with tips and tricks on how to become a better painter to be given on Monday, July 27th at 1pm. This free event corresponds with Hai-Ou’s course for beginner and intermediate artists, beginning on August 3rd. In the course, Hai-Ou will guide participants through four weeks of painting alla prima still lifes and painting from photographs. The four-week course will officially begin on Monday, August 3rd at 1pm and end after the last class on Monday, August, 24th at 1pm. To register for the full course, please visit this link: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/virtual-painting-course-with-hai-ou-hou/

 

Please call the gallery (804-824-9464) or email (assistantdirector@gloucesterarts.org) to register for this event. You need to provide your name and email address.

PLEASE NOTE: Registering for the free lecture and demo DOES NOT enroll you in the course!! You must enroll in each separately.

Plein Air Still Life Demonstration

As part of our continuing Artists in Residence program, we are pleased to offer a Plein Air Still Life demonstration by Andrée Tullier and Nancy McCarra during their residence in October.

Coming from the Impressionist tradition of painting, Andrée and Nancy  have studied with many of the same artists and continue to fill their paintings with light and color. They will be doing a demo of an outdoor still life-painting side by side but each expressing their own individual style of how they start a painting,how they see color and their individual thought processes as they paint. Questions are welcomed as they work.

Free & open to the public

Andree Tullier
Nancy McCarra