10/01/23 Shawangunk Ridge Sunset Plein Air with Shawn Dell Joyce

At Borden Estate Wallkill, NY

Oct. 1 Sunday

Raindate Oct. 8

2pm-6pm

$110 ($100 Members)

Join Shawn Dell Joyce and learn to capture fall foliage, aerial perspective and use color theory in any medium. Perfect fall weather and warm fall colors await you in a Sunday afternoon painting expedition that meets on location at the Borden Estate in Wallkill, NY. Learn to use the color wheel to make a complementary palette painting and make your fall colors pop. Start by simplifying the landscape into basic blocks of value and color temperature, and paint, paint, paint! Individual attention, group critique, materials list attached. Open to all levels and mediums, teacher demonstrates in pastel. Spectacular views of the Shawangunk Ridge, historic architecture, and fall colors.

2pm Introductions, meet on site and set up
2:30pm Shawn demonstrates value sketch, do your own value sketch.
3pm complementary color palette demo
3:30pm-6pm painting with individual help
6pm group critique
Snacks & drinks available

Shawn Dell Joyce was raised on her family’s citrus farm in the Rio Grande Valley. The young woman moved North and studied painting and drawing at the University of North Texas. After graduation in 1986 she began her career as an artist’s apprentice in NY’s SoHo area, and worked in the studios of many prestigious artists including Jeff Koons, Mark Kostabi, and Ronnie Cutrone. Her love of the landscape called her North to the Hudson Valley, where she began teaching a series of plein air painting classes in 2000 throughout the Hudson Valley. Her classes became so popular that she hired other artists, and founded a plein air school with an Arts and Agricultural mission based on the historic Hudson River School.  Now in it’s 20 th year, The Wallkill River School continues to bring cultural tourism to the Hudson Valley region through plein air painting workshops and events on local farms, historic sites and open spaces. She is still honored as founder and on the board of directors. She teaches workshops in pastel and plein air techniques across the country, and is endorsed by Ampersand Pastelbords who supply materials for her demos and workshops. In 2017, she was hired by UArt to do a plein air pastel workshop. She has also worked the plein air event circuit and participated in many prestigious events around the country, bringing home awards for her loose and colorful paintings. She recently placed 1 st in the 2018 Inverness Plein Air Festival, and 3 rd in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival. Last year she placed 1st in the Quick Draw at the 2017 Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, and People’s Choice in the
International Plein Air Paint Out 2005 in Niagara Falls.  She is a signature member of New York Plein Air Painters (NYPAP), and International Plein Air Painters (IPAP), and has been featured in many national newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, Plein Air Magazine, Pastel Journal Magazine, and Tampa Bay Magazine. She has participated in many national exhibits and plein air festivals, and is represented by galleries in NY and Florida. Her works have been widely collected by corporations and families around the world including the Georges Pompidou Museum in France and the Museum of Modern Art in NY.

Basic Materials:

1. Plein air easel, stool/chair or other equipment you may need
2. Pack drinks, hat & sunscreen
3. 2 supports (I’ll be painting 12×36) or smaller & sketchbook

Pastel
1. Paper and pencil (for value sketches)
2. Pastel board or painting surface
3. Set of 24 or more pastels (72 is ideal)

Acrylic, Watercolor or Oils:
1. Paper and pencil (for value sketches)
2. Canvas (or paper) 2 try 12×36 or 16×20
3. Set of acrylics or oils in basic colors
4. Gamisol or linseed oil for oils, Turpenoid or solvent container for oils
5. Assortment of brushes, preferably flat bristle brushes for oil
6. And white nylon brushes for acrylics in flats and brights.
7. Water container for acrylics, Paper towels or old rags