ELIZABETH APGAR-SMITH

Elizabeth Apgar-Smith has earned numerous awards for her impressionistic paintings and her work is featured in many books on painting technique. The towns and farm communities that surround her studio in Schoharie, New York, inspire paintings that shimmer with atmosphere and reflect the nobility of commonplace scenes. Betsy is a teacher who stresses strong design and creative use of color. Through demonstrations and individual guidance, she helps her students to explore a variety of techniques and achieve stronger personal statements. In this workshop, students will discuss different plein air techniques and learn what makes a good sketch, how to capture the essence of plein air, how much information should be put into a sketch, as well as other techniques. Betsy will demonstrate a studio painting from a plein air sketch.

Also see Betsy's Summer Plein Air Pastel Workshop.