Plein Air Painting in
the Colorado Rockies

Ongoing plein air oil painting
and acrylic painting Tutorials
August to mid-October
Locations include:  Durango,
Cortez, Rico and Telluride areas

We begin on site with an hour lecture covering pleinair concepts, basic composition, mapping your vision, basic color theory, color mixing, and painting methods. We continue to paint for three hours with guidance completing the session with a pleinair painting. Voila!

Meredith is an enthusiastic artist who works primarily from observation in a variety of media. She is a skilled oil painter with over 15 years experience with the medium. She is a natural teacher, teaching drawing and painting classes in Tucson and Patagonia, Arizona through The Drawing Studio and independent pleinair studies in Southern Colorado where she spends the Summer.

For Times, Pricing and Supply List, download flyer in PDF format here.

To e-mail Meredith:
meredithmilstead@yahoo.com

Lizard Head Pass Paintings

"Brook Study - Lizard Head"

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Sea Anemones

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Small Potatoes

Painting is about discovery. I "discovered" these forgotten spuds in the veggie basket one afternoon  and commenced to work from them for the next few months as they struggled to reproduce... (more)