Stephen Day will share his immense knowledge and understanding of oil painting through class discussion, individualized instruction and numerous demonstrations that will focus on drawing, color mixing, brushwork, edges and the use of value to create dynamic landscape scenes. Students will complete at least five small paintings during the three-day intensive. Designed for the beginner to more experienced painters, Day offered, “My hope is that the student will leave the workshop with new confidence to keep painting.”

Working primarily in oils, Day is a full time artist living in Taos, New Mexico where he is renowned for his plein air paintings of the local landscape. Painting the beauty of the natural environment is his ‘first love’, and he frequently paints on location using the smaller works as studies for larger paintings completed in the studio. Day offered of his approach, “I paint almost exclusively from life trying to capture the feeling and the mood of the subject before me. This work philosophy forces me to paint quickly to get a spontaneous and fresh response, because everything around us, including ourselves, is in a constant state of change.”