The Big Idea Creating a Large Painting in the Studio

6-days: Saturday – Thursday, March 21-26, 2020
Hours: 9am – 4pm (1-Hour break for lunch)
$1250

Registration Open

Enjoy this 6-day workshop with Award-Winning Artist Joe Paquet!

Select Awards:
2007 Laguna Plein Air Invitational – Artist Choice and Collectors Choice
2008 Salmagundi Club of New York  – Alden Bryan Memorial Prize
2008 Richeson 75 Artist Choice competition l – Landscape First Place
2019 14th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition – Plein Air First Place
2019 Laguna Beach Invitational – Award of Excellence

Paquet is a member of both the Salmagundi Club and California Art Club and is an emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America/

ABOUT THE CLASS

This will be Joe Paquet’s fifth time teaching this highly-effective workshop. You will have the opportunity to implement a workable strategy for approaching a large work successfully, indoors. Daily lectures will take you from concept to finish while making sound, personal choices.

The first morning will begin with a lecture to discuss materials, palette management, composition and show examples by some of the greats. (Be sure to have a notebook!)
Each day will begin with a 45-minute lecture to discuss concepts relevant to the day’s work ahead.

Reference Material: Optimum would be a color study from life or the field, supplemental drawings and/or an excellent photo printed to at least 8×10″. If you do not have studies from life to work from, be sure whatever photo image you choose has clear patterns of light & shadow. Choose an image which excites you!

Students should email Joe their image prior to workshop to make sure it is suitable. Joe can be reached at Joe@joepaquet.com (A week is a long time to work through a mundane image).

Feel free to call Joe with any questions about the class @ 651.485.5807

Joe was the subject of the October 1995 Washington Post Sunday Magazine feature article. He’s also been featured in the March 2004 issue of American Artist magazine and the July 2005 issue of PleinAir magazine.

Select Awards:
2007 Laguna Plein Air Invitational – Artist Choice and Collectors Choice
2008 Salmagundi Club of New York  – Alden Bryan Memorial Prize
2008 Richeson 75 Artist Choice competition l – Landscape First Place
2019 14th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition – Plein Air First Place
2019 Laguna Beach Invitational – Award of Excellence

Paquet is a member of both the Salmagundi Club and California Art Club and is an emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America/

Learn more about Joe below.

WORKSHOPS:  Cancellations by the student more than 90 days: full refund. Under 90 days: $50 non-refundable registration fee is included in the workshop tuition.  Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of the start of the workshop.

Balance due February 1, 2020.

The Big Idea Large Painting w/Joe Paquet – March 21-26, 2020
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About Joe Paquet
Joseph Paquet was born in 1962 in Patterson, New Jersey to hard-working parents of immigrant stock. His father Jim was a railroad man, working as an ironworker, dock builder & mason who also painted and carved wood and stone. His mother, Theresa, was a homemaker and craftsperson who sewed and knitted.
His childhood was one of being outdoors: wondering, wandering and daydreaming. “It’s a great irony to now get paid for those things which got me into trouble when I was a kid,” Joe says.
He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and credits artist-instructors John Foote, David Palladini, James McMullan with inspiring his deep love of drawing.
Later he studied with John Phillip Osborne in Ridgewood, New Jersey and was introduced to the Prismatic Palette. Joe states, “John opened a new world for me and set me on a path to painting outdoors – it was incredibly life changing.”
Paquet’s philosophy is one rooted in deep connection and sensitivity to his subjects. He says, “Because I work directly from nature, each painting is a chunk of my life – a piece of me and record of my experience on this earth.”

Joe was the subject of the October 1995 Washington Post Sunday Magazine feature article. He’s also been featured in the March 2004 issue of American Artist magazine and the July 2005 issue of PleinAir magazine.

Select Awards:
2007 Laguna Plein Air Invitational – Artist Choice and Collectors Choice
2008 Salmagundi Club of New York  – Alden Bryan Memorial Prize
2008 Richeson 75 Artist Choice competition l – Landscape First Place
2019 14th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition – Plein Air First Place
2019 Laguna Beach Invitational – Award of Excellence

Paquet is a member of both the Salmagundi Club and California Art Club and is an emeritus member of the Plein Air Painters of America. 

For more info on Joe Paquet, please visit his website. Follow Joe on Instagram and Facebook.

MATERIALS: 

Notebook or sketchbook — for prepatory studies or sketches
1 Large Canvas or Panel — Examples: 18×24, 20×24 ,24×30, 30×40
3 Small Panels 8×10 or 9×12
(Joe recommends panels from New Traditions Art Panels). He uses Type 15 Claessens linen

Easel: Joe recommends a good quality French Easel (Example: The Original Julian Full Box)
It can handle up to 30″ in Height and up to a 40″ Panel if used with a Bungee Cord.
However, The Art Guild has metal easels that you are welcome to borrow. (Please note, we have somewhat low ceilings in our 340+ year old building, so a very tall vertical may be problematic.)

You will be able to leave your gear set up each night.

Paints:
White (Large Tube – 220 ml) Titanium or Cremation
Cad Yellow Lt (Old Holland, Rembrandt, Graham)
Cad Yellow (Windsor Newton) Note- Not WN Winton as these are under pigmented student-grade.
Cad Orange (Winsor Newton)
Cad Scarlet (Winsor Newton)
Cad Red (Winsor Newton)
Alizarin Crimson (Winsor Newton)
Manganese Blue (Old Holland)
Cobalt Blue (Winsor Newton)
Ultramarine Blue (Winsor Newton)
Ivory Black (Winsor Newton)
Raw Umber (Old Holland)

Mediums / Solvents:
Medium – Mixed 50/50, Coldpressed Linseed Oil & Gamsol in a small bottle.
(Be sure to have ONLY Gamsol as a solvent — it outgasses the least of all solvents and we will be close together in two large rooms!)

Palette Cup(s) Preferably with screw top
Palette Knife (Long Blade )

Brushes:
Long Bristle Flats or Filberts – Recommendations, Robert Simmons Signet, Raphael Series 359, Rosemary.
(Have at least 2 of every other size 2,4,6,8,10,12)

Retouch Varnish – Small Bottle 2.5oz: Winsor Newton Artist Retouch Varnish
Varnish Brush – 2″

Brush Washer: Metal Variety with a vacuum top lid for solvents
Bungee cords

Paper Towels
Garbage Bag

Humility & Patience (Not Optional)