FOLIAGE & TREE WORKSHOP

WITH HOWARD ROSE

September 8, 15, 22, & 29, 1:30-4pm

Fall Session (4 weeks):
$250 Members/$285 Non-members

When Painting Plein air or in the studio, we all are striving to create elegant and creative landscapes. When we were in elementary school, our teacher taught us how to draw a tree. We of course made a big green ball with a brown straight trunk coming out of it. It’s taken 40 years to get over that ingrained image.  We will have 4 sessions going over all foliage: drawing calligraphic grasses and trees and limbs. Turning your brush to create elegant lines with the least amount of effort.  How do you draw big bunches of flowers? Our initial start is to draw each flower and ignore how our eyes really see bunches of flowers…shapes, variety and transition of light to lead the eye in the right direction.

Getting good at painting a scene that you would walk by a thousand times, and never pay attention to, could be the most exciting part in this journey to become a great painter.

We are the artists…We don’t accept the given image because we want to make sure our design is as good as can be. We can change the shapes, move things around, push the light for drama and add atmosphere when you might not see it in your chosen image.

At iur first session we will review other artists that have  expertise in our type of trees and foliage techniques. We will go over their work and hopefully will inspire you to learn from them  and add different techniques to your own paintings. Howard will then do a short demo at the start of each class based on the subject that we are working on for that class.

Over the next 3 sessions we will cover everything that has been part of your landscape painting  journey: Colors of the landscape, brush technique, texture, atmosphere, moving objects around  to create great design, seeing the shapes of beautiful objects, edges, arial perspective and picking a pleasing subject. 

There is lots of learning to do and with practice, you will start to SEE the possibilities and how every 5 degree turn is a beautiful painting…waiting to be painted.

About Howard Rose

Howard Rose graduated from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and Graduate studies at C.W. Post, and the New School in NYC. Since 1974, he was head product

Since 1974, he was head product designer for a major leatherwear company in Santa Monica. In 1980 he started his own graphics and product design company on Long Island. In 1989, Howard saw the paintings of a western painter named John Nieto. The amazing colors and large sized paintings of American Indians caught his eye and he hasn’t looked back since. Howard has studied with Artists, Alfred Chadbourn. Charles Sovek, Matt-Smith, and Ovanes Berberian. He had is first art studio in Roslyn, NY for 18 years where he taught and specialized in landscapes.The beaches of Long Island became his favorite subjects including the dunes, waves, and sky’s found in some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.He teaches oil painting classes in multiple venues on Long Island,including the Art Guild,  League of Long Island, National Art League and runs classes at his studio in Syosset, Long Island. Howard runs many varied workshops including; Color Mixing, Iphone,photography, Design and perspective and an intensive Calligraphy and Penmanship course.His articles and instruction techniques have been published in various magazines, including “Artists”, and “American Artist” Magazine. He runs annual workshops in Tuscany, Paris, Venice,Barcelona, and many locations on the east coast. He runs plein air workshops all over the east coast.