Painting the Winter Landscape Indoors

Date:  Saturday, December 10, 2022

Time: 10AM - 4PM

Members $ 85.50

Non-Members $ 95.00

Instructor: Mike Berlinski

This One Day  Workshop will give Artists the chance to create and express the wonderful feelings of a winter landscape from indoors.

No need to have cold feet! Join Mike for a workshop of fun and creative expressiveness! The basic to advanced painting concepts of landscape painting will be discussed. Participants are encouraged to bring their own printed photos to work from. There will be plenty of individual guidance and help for each student. This workshop is taught by an accomplished professional artist.

Instructor Bio

I began drawing and painting at the age of seven. I am basically self-taught and working primarily with oil paints in the Plein-Air tradition.

This form of working outdoors grew out of my vacations on Cape Cod and Cape Ann Massachusetts, where the natural beauty of the landscape is overwhelming. I continue to paint shorelines in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. 

In fact, people regularly purchase my coastline painting right off the easel. From the shore, I turned my love of natural phenomenon inland to the beauty and liveliness of trees and their surroundings. Most of my paintings are completed in one session. This is called Alla Prima.

I consider myself a true and traditional painter with a love of the natural world and its possibilities for expression.  

Memberships: New Britain Art League, Farmington Art Guild, Connecticut Plein-Air Painters Society, Rockport Art Association, Central Connecticut Artists Group.

Exhibitions From 1986: New Britain Art League, Farmington Art Guild, J.V. Brunelle in Gatsby, Brick Gallery in Essex, Artwalk Show West Hartford Center, West Hartford Art League, Open Juried Show,  Member Show, Holcomb Annual Art Show, J. V. Brunelle, Connecticut Plein-Air Painters Society, Group Shows, Farmington Public Library, The Marlborough Town Hall Gallery, Solo Art Exhibit, Gallery of Eleven Hartford, Art Space Group art Show in Hartford, Mill House Gallery Chester,  Cheshire Public Library, and, Mystic Arts Festival.

Material List

Materials list, supplied by students;

Outdoor Painting Easel (French, Pochade or other) with a palette

Paints, Oil or Acrylic

All artist grade if possible;

Smaller tubes of;

Thalo Blue

Ultramarine Blue

Quinacridone Magenta

Cadmium Red Medium

Cadmium Yellow Lemon

Cadmium Yellow Medium

and a Large tube of Titanium White

Odorless Turp, Gamsol preferred for oils

Water for Acrylics

Medium glass jar with cover

Canvases any size from 12x16 to 16x20 suggested

Brushes; Decent quality bristle brushes for oils, Synthetic brushes for Acrylics.

1 large Flat about 1 inch

1 Flat about 1/2 inch

1 medium round

1 small round

Other paints, brushes and canvas sizes optional.

Palette Knife