Level: All levels welcome. Not appropriate for absolute beginners.

Sunday

Jul 13

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Instructor: Souby Boski

Fee: $115

“Plein Air Painting”  with Souby Boski

Sunday, August 14 (11am-4pm)

Working around the Arts Center and inspired by the river or the village, students will stretch their imagination while strengthening skills in order to paint the landscape in an expressionistic way.

Students will be challenged to see and interpret the landscape in new ways. Various approaches to painting will be encouraged: experimentation of techniques and ideas, as well as trial and error. Students will gain the confidence to explore the use of color, mark making, surface quality and composition, emphasizing their own pictorial language.  We’ll look closely, paint loosely, and discuss freely aspects of the landscape.

This class is for Int-Adv students with some painting experience in the medium of your choice. New Plein Air painters are welcome!   

* RAIN DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 (11AM-3PM)

SUPPLY LIST:  Please note this is a SUGGESTED MATERIALS LIST. Knowing everyone has their own preferences for colors, brands, brushes, etc., this just a guide.

  • RAC will supply easels, small tables and chairs for anyone who doesn’t have their own plein air painting set up
  • Paints (oil or acrylic paints): Primary colors of your choice; Lots of white.  Suggestions:  Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson , Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Kings Blue, Cobalt Violet, Ultramarine Violet, Dioxazine Purple, Sap Green, Permanent Green, Naples Yellow (150 ml tube suggested), Permabla white (150ml tubes suggested), other colors of choice
  • Painting Surfaces: Several primed canvases, boards or gessoed heavy paper of assorted sizes
  • Brushes: Artists brushes of different sizes. And ordinary house painting brushes (1 – 2 in.)
  • Palette Knives
  • Your favorite mediums for Oil and Acrylic paints
  • Containers: Oil Painters – Plastic peanut butter type jars with tight lids for mixing medium. Acrylic Painters – Large Jars for water
  • Palettes: Disposable Artist’s palettes for mixing paint.
  • Rags: Clean cotton cloth rags and an old terry cloth towel or paper towels.
  • Thin stick of charcoal, Baby Wipes, Disposable gloves

Other suggested supplies:   Thin stick of charcoal, Baby Wipes, Disposable gloves, Sunscreen, Bug spray, Water, Hat, Garbage bags.

Instructor Bio – SOUBY BOSKI

Drawing inspiration from Abstract Expressionism as well as Impressionism, Souby Boski uses gestural and abstracted forms to define her richly textured compositions. Her loosely painted canvases are immediate responses to her visceral connection with her subjects.

Souby has her MALS degree from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and her BA from Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Souby Boski has been an Art teacher in the CT public schools and Adjunct Professor of Art at Naugatuck Valley Community College. Since 2004, she has been teaching painting classes and workshops at area art education venues in CT, MA and FL.  She has studied painting with nationally recognized artists and teachers, Eric Aho, Ira Barkoff, Lois Dodd and Ruth Miller.

EXHIBITION HISTORY “Works on Paper Invitational” Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City Behnke Doherty Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA“Small Works Invitational”, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY “Sphere of Influence: Ira Barkoff & the Washington Art Association”, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT“Winter Wonders”, Gallery 19, Essex, CT“PAINT: A National Juried Exhibition”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RILiz Afif Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA“Spectrum 2013”, New Canaan, CT– 1st prize paintingA.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NYBehnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT Minor Memorial Gallery, Roxbury, CT Higgins Gallery, Western Connecticut State University Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT Lenox Invitational Exhibit, Lenox MA White Silo Gallery, Sherman CT