PLEIN AIR & LANDSCAPE WORKSHOPS The Atelier is pleased to present an offering of landscape workshops. The study of landscape should be included in the student and artist training as it is an important element in the development of a well-trained and diverse artist. 3-DAY SUMMER SPRING OUTDOOR LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP LANDSCAPE CRASH COURSE WITH BROCK LARSON WITH BRIDGET ERTELT In this three-day workshop, students will be taken The focus of this class will be painting the landscape through Brock Larson’s approach to painting outdoors. Get ready for a lot of information and landscapes on location. Outdoor painting has a learning! Day 1 is all about value. We will study the large set of challenges, from fleeting light effects to value structure of the landscape and simplify values unpredictable weather changes, so practicing the to create strong starts. Day 2 will focus on color. We ability to predict, prepare, and adapt for these changes is a necessity to painting will discuss seeing color as value and organizing from nature. Brock will demonstrate his process on Friday and Saturday colors in a way that creates dynamic starts. Using temperature shifts to create the effect of different types of light will be discussed. We will mornings, breaking down the stages of how to gain the initial impression, also talk about green since there is a lot of it during our Minnesota summers. Day 3 will composition and overall placements, to solving smaller passages while cover atmospheric perspective, gradation, and special lighting situations such as sunsets. maintaining the “big look.” The general outline is as follows: Fri. morning: Class will be taught in oils and tailored to all skill levels.* demonstration, paint; Fri. afternoon: paint; Sat. morning: demonstration, FRIDAY-SUNDAY, June 4-6, 2021 paint; Sat. afternoon: paint; Sun. morning & afternoon: paint. This class will be Friday, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM tailored to each individual student, and all levels are welcome to participate. Instructor: Bridget Ertelt. $300. Limit 10 students. Students should have a French easel (or any lightweight traveling easel). Please register early as his workshops always fill. Materials list and class information PLEIN AIR CONTINUING STUDY will be sent upon payment. WITH BRIDGET ERTELT FRIDAY-SUNDAY, August 27-29, 2021 Pre-requisite: Outdoor Landscape Crash Course workshop 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (break for lunch from 12 - 2) This class will be an opportunity for continuing study Instructor: Brock Larson in landscape painting. Topics will build on information $375. Limit 10 students. presented in Bridget’s Outdoor Landscape Crash Course workshop and offer a chance to further your study. 2 PLEIN AIR WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS The format will be a short discussion or demo at the WITH CECEILE HARTLEIB beginning of each class and students painting the remainder of the time with instructor assistance. Class will meet at various locations around the Twin Cities. Bridget will offer This workshop is open to all levels. On day one, CeCeile will do a short demo 2 classes per month, May-August. Register each month for $38 per class in a drop-in in stressing values, shapes and simplification of the landscape. Each day there format. Drop-ins welcome. Email Bridget at [email protected] to receive location will be a short demo and then you will information. but class limit is 8.* complete a painting. On the first day we SATURDAY, May 8 & 15, 2021, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM will meet at Lake Harriet just across from (June, July, and August dates will be posted online by the 1st of every month. Please email the Rose Garden. Directions and supply list [email protected] for updates.) will be sent upon registration. Instructor: Bridget Ertelt. $38 per class or $76 for both. Limit 8 students. July 12-16, 2021, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PAINTING THE FIGURE OUTDOORS August 9–13, 2021 9 AM - noon Instructor: CeCeile Hartleib WITH BRIDGET ERTELT $300 per 5-day workshop. This weekend is bound to be fun! It combines two of Bridget’s favorite things…figure painting and plein air PAINTING OUTDOOR STILL painting. Based on feedback from last summer, and LIFE WITH BRIDGET ERTELT extra day will be added to this workshop for a total of Often when we hear people talk about plein 3 days. Students will spend the weekend painting the clothed figure outdoors in natural light. In this class we air painting we think of landscapes. However, will be doing exercises to capture gesture, large value/ painting the outdoor still life is an excellent way to color proportions, and achieving believable light effect study light and color. We can learn a lot from this (sunny day vs. gray day, etc.) using value and color type of study, as it is easier to see how light and temperature. Perspective and how to relate the figure to its surrounding environment will temperature shifts occur on simple objects than be discussed. The class will start with short poses and progressively lengthen the poses on more complicated forms of the landscape. throughout the weekend. Studying the figure is a great way to increase your understanding Each day of the class different exercises will be of how light affects all form outdoors. Class will be taught in oils. Students of all skill levels presented to help the student achieve strong one- are welcome! Some previous drawing experience may be helpful.* day studies. We will focus on color, but will also be discussing light effect, FRIDAY-SUNDAY, August 6-8, 2021 value, drawing and temperature shifts. Students will begin the first few sessions Friday, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM painting very simple still life set ups that will become more elaborate as the Instructor: Bridget Ertelt. $330 (includes model fees). Limit 10 students. class progresses. Class will be taught in oils and tailored to all skill levels.* *We will be practicing safety by social distancing and wearing masks during group SATURDAYS, May 1, 8, 15, 22, and June 12, 2021, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM interactions. Please contact Bridget at [email protected] or The Atelier if you have Instructor: Bridget Ertelt. $250. Limit 10 students. any questions. Materials and class information sent upon payment. The original Atelier, founded by Richard Lack in 1970 as a not for profit corporation, This activity is made possible by has based its aesthetic philosophy on a direct lineage to the Boston school of American the voters of Minnesota through Impressionists and the French Academy. The Atelier, co-directed by Dale Redpath and Cyd Wicker, closely follows these original precepts offering students the opportunity a Minnesota State Arts Board to master the fundamental principles in the classical discipline of realistic drawing and Operating Expense grant, thanks painting. In all of The Atelier’s classes, emphasis is placed on developing the student’s ability to accurately observe proportions and value relationships. Some instruction is to a legislative appropriation from given to the class as a whole, but most instruction is given on an individual basis. the arts and cultural heritage fund. The Atelier pursues a non-discriminatory policy and is open to all eligible students regardless of race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 90143 STUDIO PROGRAM OF FINE ART TWIN CITIES, MN 1621 EAST HENNEPIN AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55414 www.TheAtelier.org | [email protected] | (612) 362-8421 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED SPECIAL EVENTS Fundraising Summer Painting Raffle & 2021 Instructor Art Sale Benefit Workshops & Classes! 35W Industrial Blvd. Broadway St. NE Stinson Blvd. 280 East Hennepin Ave. (18th Ave. SE) (18th Ave. Como Ave. SE Please use the 1621 main entrance on the north side of the building under the shed roof. Please come to The Atelier’s annual FULL TIME STUDENT SHOW Honey Pot by Alex Utecht Evening Out FRIDAY: MAY 21, 2 PM - 9 PM by Leilani Drake SATURDAY: MAY 22, 12 PM - 8 PM SUNDAY: MAY 23, 12 PM - 5 PM Maggie in Black Fundraising Raffle Drawing at 3pm Sunday by Lauri Meyer (see inside for details) Please join or renew your membership to the FRIENDS OF THE ATELIER by mail or at www.theatelier.org/friends 2021 Spring & Summer STUDIO PROGRAM OF FINE ART 1621 EAST HENNEPIN AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55414 www.TheAtelier.org | [email protected] | (612) 362-8421 CLASSES BASIC DRAWING & PAINTING PORTRAIT Students begin by drawing a plaster cast or still life in Students will work from a live model in order to charcoal, developing their ability to render accurate produce finished drawings and/or paintings. Students proportions and value relationships. As students will work in pencil, charcoal, pastels or oils. Capturing progress, they are introduced to the fundamentals of oil a likeness is emphasized. Color and techniques in oil and/or pastel techniques, composition and color. and pastel are covered. Starting MONDAY, May 24 Starting TUESDAY, May 25, 7:00 - 9:30 PM 7:30 - 10:00 PM, Instructor: Brian Lewis Instructor: Lauri Meyer Starting TUESDAY, May 25 Starting THURSDAY, May 27, 7:00 - 9:30 PM 7:00 - 9:30 PM, Instructor: Judy Buckvold Instructor: Laura Tundel. Starting WEDNESDAY, May 26 $220, 10 weeks. 7:30 - 10:00 PM, Instructor: Brian Lewis Starting THURSDAY, May 27 The Atelier’s Safety & Preparedness Plan 7:00 - 9:30 PM, Instructor: Stacy Andrews Inglorion $200, 10 weeks. Safety First The Atelier is instructing our teachers, students, associates, contractors, BASIC DRAWING & PAINTING - DAY CLASSES and other invitees to follow all Center for Disease Control and Minnesota Starting TUESDAY, May 25, 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Department of Health guidance, as may be updated or supplemented from time to time, to stop the spread of COVID-19.