Winter Park April 2010 : Page 22LEARN FROM THE ARTISTS These sessions are free and open to the public during the Paint Out. They will be held at the Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park. 407.647.6294, polasek.org ■ WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRA- TION BY STEWART JONES April 25, 1-3 p.m. Watercolor can be a difficult medium when paint- ing en plein air. Jones shows how to work from light to dark in order to capture a scene. His technique uses abstract layers of light values and darker patterns to produce a unique watercolor painting. ■ OIL PAINTING DEMONSTRA- TION BY CYNTHIA EDMONDS April 27, 10 a.m.-noon. This session covers many of the basics of plein air oil painting, including materi- als, mediums and composition. Edmonds demonstrates the direct painting technique – paint is applied opaquely to the canvas, with each brush stroke capturing a specific element in the scene. ■ PASTEL DEMONSTRATION BY SALLY EVANS April 28, 10 a.m.-noon. Pastels are an unusual painting medium requiring an artist to mix and blend colors on paper rather than on a palette. Evans shows how to combine both drawing skill and color awareness to create a unique pastel painting. She also will provide information about the materials and types of pastels available. ■ ACRYLIC DEMONSTRATION BY LINDA BLONDHEIM April 29, 10 a.m.-noon. Compared to oils, acrylic paints are a relatively new medium. In this session, Blondheim shows how acrylics can be used effectively in plein air painting. Several techniques are taught that allow an artist to achieve oil-like results using this quick-drying paint. ■ OIL DEMONSTRATION BY MITCH KOLBE April 30, 10 a.m.-noon. Kolbe gives a talk on color harmony and its use in plein air painting. Starting with the basics, he progresses from ‘Color 101’ to more advanced techniques and applications for LEARN FRO TISTS These sessions are free and open to the public during the Paint Out. They will be held at the Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park. 407.647.6294, polasek.org ■ WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRA- TION BY STEWART JONES April 25, 1-3 p.m. Watercol OM THE ARTISTS These sessions are free and open to the public during the Paint Out. They will be held at the Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park. 407.647.6294, polasek.org ■ WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRA- TION BY STEWART JONES April 25, 1-3 p.m. Watercolor can be a difficult medium when paint- ing en plein air. Jones shows how to work from light to dark in order to capture a scene. His technique uses abstract layers of light values and darker patterns to produce a unique watercolor painting. ■ OIL PAINTING DEMONSTRA- TION BY CYNTHIA EDMONDS April 27, 10 a.m.-noon. This session covers many of the basics of plein air oil painting, including materi- als, mediums and composition. Edmonds demonstrates the direct painting technique – paint is applied opaquely to the canvas, with each brush stroke capturing a specific element in the scene. ■ PASTEL DEMONSTRATION BY SALLY EVANS April 28, 10 a.m.-noon. Pastels are an unusual painting medium requiring an artist to mix and blend colors on paper rather than on a palette. Evans shows how to combine both drawing skill and color awareness to create a unique pastel painting. She also will provide information about the materials and types of pastels available. ■ ACRYLIC DEMONSTRATION BY LINDA BLONDHEIM April 29, 10 a.m.-noon. Compared to oils, acrylic paints are a relatively new medium. In this session, Blondheim shows how acrylics can be used effectively in plein air painting. Several techniques are taught that allow an artist to achieve oil-like results using this quick-drying paint. ■ OIL DEMONSTRATION BY MITCH KOLBE April 30, 10 a.m.-noon. Kolbe gives a talk on color harmony and its use in plein air painting. Starting with the basics, he progresses from ‘Color 101’ to more advanced techniques and applications for Kathleen Kathleen Chenet, the winner of the Paint Out poster competition, already has in mind scenes she’d like to paint this year. A WINNING STRATEGY The strategy that proved a winning one in this year’s poster competition was Kathleen Chenet’s approach: “When we started painting, I tried to think poster.” Her painting of Albin Polasek’s Forest Idyl sculpture in front of City Hall captured the judges’ eye. “I chose it because I thought it was such a really sweet statue,” she says. She, too, already has in mind several scenes she’d like to paint, including a house on Palmer Avenue that she hopes to capture in late-afternoon light. A late bloomer of sorts – she started painting when she was 50 – and a veteran of several paint outs, Chenet says, “You learn to paint what catches your eye immediately instead of looking for the perfect scene.” What does she do to prepare? “I practice because I still get scared. I just paint like a maniac every second that I can.” as he was reminded recently when working on his poster-competition entry at the Polasek, it is much different from studio work. Starting and finishing a painting outside requires “simply trying to get down what I see in front of me – and very quickly. The translation is purer. There is editing going on, but it is very different from studio work.” Inside, Cornell points out, the artist has a “bit more control.” Outside, he says, “I can be looking at a tree and 20 minutes later it’s in the shade and it’s not coming back until tomorrow.” Having grown up “partially” in Kansas, Cornell understandably is drawn to extremes of weather. “The Weather Channel is always on at home,” he says. His favorite subjects: storms and tornadoes. For the Paint Out, he’s considering painting at the museum but also finds the courtyard at Barnie’s coffeeshop on Park Avenue intriguing, as well as the views by the railroad tracks. “I may just end up down by the side of a lake,” Cornell says. It is obvious from Cornell’s paintings, which are oil on wood, that water is another favorite subject. One photographic image of the sparkling Santee River in South Carolina, for example, has provided the inspiration for 20 to 25 large and small paintings of sunlight dancing on burnt sienna waves. 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