Plein Air Preparedness

Service Description

Thursday: August 6 1 - 2:30 pm Cost: $10 Are you ready to paint outdoors? Need help planning for outdoor painting on your own or with a group. Later this month (August 17-24) is the plein air event and art sale in Coupeville (https://pacificnorthwestartschool.org/product/plein-air-registration/. Join Deon Matzen for a discussion of equipment preparation, logistics of onsite painting and how to decide what to paint from the vast world around us. Appropriate for all skill levels and all media, painters and sketchers. Deon Matzen paints in both oil and watercolor, though the watercolor is often on unusual substrates like hardboard She paint animals, old buildings and trucks (unrestored). Recently she started a sequence of watercolor birds. Her main genre is "vanishing rural America." Her inspiration is anything with color. She has completed 144 dog portrait commissions, several dozen cats, a pig, and a family of ducks. Deon has a degree in fine art and has painted continually since 1995 in watercolor for the first ten years then switching to oils. Now she works with both. To see examples of her paintings go to: theruralgallery.com.