Exploring Color and Composition in Santa Fe 2025
Susan Abbott, “Road to Ghost Ranch”, oil
Here’s your chance for an in-depth exploration of painting composition and color in beautiful Santa Fe. This intensive workshop will cover both the fundamentals and more complex approaches to designing a painting while using our location in the historic downtown as inspiration. We’ll combine a daily studio class and individual painting time with plein air painting and sketching, as well as slide talks, museum visits and personal critiques.
Medium: Oil, watercolor or acrylic
Level: Intermediate to advanced (Students should be familiar with their medium)
You’re the best teacher I’ve had by far, and that’s not to say I haven’t had some very good ones. The week was so worthwhile. I wanted to be challenged and was. I wanted to learn more about color and composition and did. Perhaps my most important takeaway is seeing how you “see”—simplifying shapes, eliminating detail and daring to use color in new ways.
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