Exciting news! I will be teaching a couple of workshops starting November of 2021!

The first, will be a pleinair watercolor workshop. I will be taking a group of students around town (Phoenix, Scottsdale) to paint on location. The class will go from 1-4pm for three Thursdays from the 4th-18th of November. We will cover the whole gamut of painting out doors in the medium. I intend to make it as thorough a class as I can!

The second is a oil painting workshop with a similar focus. Painting local scenes outdoors and exploring the beauty of oil paints. It will cover a huge array of techniques, materials, philosophy and general practicalities while painting outdoors. Painting locally gives us the opportunity to seek out beautiful and intriguing subject matter in our backyard. The class will take place 9am-4pm on March 11, 2022.

I have always looked forward to a day when I could pass on some of the knowledge that I’ve fought hard to obtain over the years. Painting has always been and will continue to be a magical mystery to me. There is certainly an allure to looking back at the masters and thinking they had special mediums, brushes, or so on and so forth. The truth is, everything available then is available now, and in spades.

Education and practice are at the top of the priority list for those seeking to master representational drawing and painting. Though nature is our greatest teacher, one will often spend years or decades deciphering lessons which may have only taken a short demonstration by a competent instructor. My goal for these classes is not to pretend to be an absolute, but rather a Sherpa guiding those who dare to one of the many false peaks on their way to mastery.

hopefully some of you will sign up so we can go and paint together!