Landscape Painting: Adventures in Alla Prima
NC2224-01
Start Date
07/19
Time
Sun 7-9pm–Sat 9am-noon
Room
Kennedy TBA
End Date
07/25
Meeting Day
Sun - Sat
Credits
0
Feel confident painting the landscape quickly from life, alla prima, and find a newfound connection to landscape and your particular tendencies when approaching nature with paint. Working gradually up to a full palette allows you to gain a deeper understanding of color theory as it relates to natural light, space, atmosphere and color harmony. You will learn how to set up for painting outside, paint wet into wet, how to quickly capture light and color in changing and sometimes unpredictable circumstances, and how to use the elements of color to create atmosphere and depth.
Basic knowledge of oil painting techniques and color theory is preferred. Everyday will be a different adventure depending on weather, location, and time of day. So grab your sun hats and easels! We’re going outside!
This course is part of MassArt New England summer workshops, where participants immerse themselves in full days of studio work with faculty and peers. Housing is available for participants of this program.
Schedule and Registration Details
Courses are one week, from Sunday through Saturday. Students arrive on Sunday and meet with their class in the evening, first over dinner and then in the classroom. During the week, classes meet from 9am to 4pm with a final class on Saturday morning from 9am until noon. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights, faculty present lectures about their work. After the faculty lecture, open life drawing is available Monday through Thursday nights.
- Schedule: Sun 7-9pm; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 9am-noon
- Participants must be 18 or older.
- You may enroll for more than one week, but only for one course per week.
- Supply lists, campus information, directions, and other information will be emailed to you 4 to 6 weeks before the start of your course.
- Register for lodging by June 1, 2026. Lodgings booked by 11:59 pm February 25, 2026 are discounted.
- You will receive a confirmation of your registration via email within 10 business days. For those registering between February 5-28, 2026, it may be four weeks. If you do not receive a confirmation, please contact us immediately.
- Refund policy: withdraw before or on June 1 for a full refund. There is no refund after June 1.
Drea Cofield
Drea Cofield is a Brooklyn-based painter whose current practice spans portraiture, and plein air landscapes She is best known for her ongoing Selfie Project, which merges art-historical portraiture with contemporary questions of self-imaging and looking in a digital world. Cofield has exhibited widely, with solo presentations at Kravets Wehby Gallery, Future Fair (NYC), Galleri Urbane (Dallas), … Read more