Plein Air in Radiant Light with Rosalie Nadeau

Well known for her generous “coaching,” Rosalie will facilitate your own unique hand to bring more impact, brilliance, depth, and emphasis where you want it in your own work.

In this two day workshop we will work en plein air in the morning, (weather permitting) as we paint Provincetown’s unique landscape. After lunch, we will work in the studio, addressing the key to vivid color to improve our painted impressions as we explore color’s contrast in value, temperature and hue.

The intricacies of edges and brushwork lead the viewer’s eye through the composition as punctuations in paint evoking emotion, poetry, and magic in our paintings. Contrast is the key to expressing the light effect. We begin by learning to paint what we see. Nature teaches us to see the classical principles of art, honing our visual awareness and our sensitivity to observing relationships.

A master plein air painter and inspiring teacher, Rosalie Nadeau balances powerful color with classical form. Her vibrant paintings have illustrated feature articles in the magazines: Pastel Artist International, American Artist, The Pastel Journal, Cape Cod Life and in the following books: The Pastel Artist’s Bible; Painting the Impressionist Landscape; Pastel School; and Painting Shapes and Edges. On Cape Cod, Trees Place Gallery shows her oil paintings and Left Bank Gallery shows her pastel paintings. Her work was selected for the permanent collection of the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She has earned prestigious signature memberships in the Pastel Society of America, Connecticut Pastel Society, the Maryland Pastel Society and Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. www.rosalienadeau.com