2008 Drawing and Painting Workshops with Gwendolyn Evans
June 24-29, July 8-13, July 29-August 3, September 9-14, October 7-12
Simplify the Process: See, Compose, Draw, Paint
As advertised in The Artist’s Magazine and American Artist Magazine.
Five workshops are offered for Summer 2008. Gwendolyn has three B&B rooms available in her home, convenient for those wishing to work evenings in the studio. Stony Brook Inn, directly across the street, also offers B&B accommodations. Please call 570-421-0952 for details.
With a master’s degree with honors from Rhode Island School of Design, numerous awards, and more than 40 years of painting and teaching experience, Gwendolyn has much to offer her workshop students whether beginner, intermediate or advanced. Gwendolyn breaks the creative process into four steps: seeing, composing, drawing, and painting. Her innovative yet classic methods ground the student in good habits and meet individual needs. Gwendolyn has developed a method of teaching by which all can draw successfully. Her watercolor instruction includes color mixing, color recipes, paper-stretching, wet-in-wet and other techniques. Gwendolyn gives her all and believes in nurturing growth and individual expression in each of her students. After years of painting abroad and throughout the US en plein air, she offers keys to mastering on-location painting.
Shawnee Falls Studio is a blissful picket-fenced property of flower gardens, stream and cascading waterfall, where an ivy-covered stone and burgundy-colored clapboard house dating to 1736 is studio, gallery, and home to the artist. Located in the charming and historic village of Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA, a minute from Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Park, SFS is only an hour and half from NYC and just across the Delaware River from New Jersey. Gwendolyn offers three rooms with B&B services in her home to non-smoking students and the Stony Brook Inn (circa 1848), a Bed and Breakfast across the street is also available. Also across the street is Shawnee Playhouse (circa 1904) where NYC actors offer summer Broadway productions such as "42nd Street" and just yards over the brook's bridge is The Shawnee General Store where Teresa or Bill will sell you a cup of coffee, a bagel, and The New York Times, as well as delicious deli sandwiches for lunch. Still in walking distance is The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort which sponsors free summer concerts on the lawn every Tuesday evening and golf for the non-painter spouse. The Delaware River is only a 3–minute walk down a pleasant residential street from the Studio, and is perfect for painting, canoeing, or hiking the many miles of the scenic McDade Trail. The Appalachian Trail is only a five minute drive away. Lots of famous people have called Shawnee home, from Fred Waring to Jackie Gleason to Don Ameche to Capt. Kangaroo's Mr. Green Jeans. Come see what they and so many others found in this quaint village while enhancing your skills as an artist.
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The workshop price of $475 includes:
- Welcoming reception, gourmet buffet dinner, and farewell dinner with entertainment in the artist's home.
- Individual and group instruction, demonstration, critique, and work-time both in studio and en plein air Wednesday morning to Saturday 4 PM.
- Studio work space, tables, water containers, paper towels/tissues, and some easels.
- Gwendolyn’s instructional hand-outs.
Workshop Schedule (subject to change as needed):
Tuesday
6:00pm welcoming wine and appetizer reception in Shawnee Falls Studio gallery.
Artist's historic home tour.
Gourmet Dinner in dining room for all students.
7:30-8:30 Visual presentation/talk on Seeing and Composing.
Wednesday
9:30 Meet in studio with drawing materials.
9:30-10:30 Gwendolyn does demos/lectures on composing and drawing.
10:30-12:30 Students complete a full-blown detailed drawing, working from still life.
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break (The Shawnee General Store has a good deli, just across the street).
1:30-3:30 Student drawing.
3:30-4:00 Group Critique of day’s work.
4:00-8:00 Open studio for B&B students who wish to work.
Thursday
9:30-11:30 Students meet in studio with watercolor materials. Gwendolyn introduces watercolor basics, use of materials, and students are taught color recipes, principles and procedures of the medium, including stretching paper.
11:30-12:30 Still Life watercolor demo by Gwendolyn.
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break.
1:30-2:30 Students do watercolor still life with individual instruction.
2:30-3:30 Plein Air watercolor demo by Gwendolyn.
3:30-4:00 Following pointers on how to select subject matter and compose outdoors, students find/select individual subject matter on location for their plein air watercolors and begin a light drawing for tomorrow’s plein air painting.
4:00-8:00 Open studio for B&B students who wish to work.
Friday
9:30-12:30 Students paint outdoors; Gwendolyn circulates, providing individual instruction (in case of rain, students complete still life watercolor in studio begun yesterday).
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break.
1:30-2:00 Handling specific watercolor problems and Q&A.
2:00-2:30 Group Critique of watercolors.
2:30-4:00 Completion of both still life and plein air pieces.
4:00-8:00 Open studio for B&B students who wish to work.
Saturday
9:30-12:30 Students start a third painting, with individual instruction as needed.
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break.
1:30-3:00 Final Critique.
6:00 Farewell dinner followed by entertainment.
Sunday
10:00-11:00 Final opportunity to ask questions and Gwendolyn hands out written student evaluations.
11:00 Departure.
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