Join award-winning palette knife painter Melanie Levitt for a weekend workshop during peak foliage in the White Mountains of NH- one of the most spectacular places to paint!  The palette knife has so many benefits and allows for you to be loose and expressive and create a variety of energetic marks.  Students will also use optional rubber shaper tools and other items such as credit cards and q-tips that allow you to pick up paint and create different types of marks. With a knife, you don't need to use toxic solvents or whole variety of brushes. Just one knife is enough to create many different types of marks in your painting. This class is suitable for both the beginner or those with some experience who want to be introduced to painting with a palette knife. Our subject will be the Fall  landscape around us and we will work outside on location (weather permitting) taking in the beauty. We will paint subjects such as Fall birch trees, mountain vistas and pathways.  Students will  learn how to create vibrancy by using grays and complimentary colors to make  colors pop.  There will be demos and  lessons each day and class size will be  kept small to allow for individual attention. Melanie will teach the importance of sketching, composition, how to stain your canvas, color mixing and how to create exciting marks and broken color with the knife. Students are required to bring their own supplies but can rent a plein air easel from Jackson Art for a fee of $30 for the weekend. (quantities are limited.) Location TBA. The instructor will be using oils but heavy body acrylics can also be used.

Saturday & Sunday,  Oct 5 & 6,  9am-4pm, $325