Joan’s Beach, Oil on Canvas
Bill White
All Inclusive* 5-night Program Starting At:
$1,010/person - Double Occupancy
$1,385/person - Single Occupancy
* Includes lodging, meals, program activities and access to optional daily activities and recreational equipment. Learn More about the Great Camp Sagamore experience.
The Sagamore Seminars education series is offered by Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization chartered by the Board of Regents of the Education Department of the State of New York and sole owner and operator of Great Camp Sagamore.
Program Overview
Our week together will be to explore the excitement and challenges of painting outdoors in the beautiful Adirondack mountains at Great Camp Sagamore.
Plein Air painting is by nature different from the quiet of the studio with its constant light and pleasant weather condition. Our aim is to capture the moment outside, one that shows the effects of light with the colors of nature as they appear to our eyes, not the camera.
It is often said that “tonality does the heavy lifting, and color gets the glory”. It will be our task to get the big tonal shapes established first so that we can develop the lush colors that are needed to make our paintings glow.
Being fearless, diving in and trying to “get it down” with simplicity is your mission. My role is to guide you to see the “visual relationships” that are beneath the subjects of the trees, sky and water. Our task in painting is to translate subject matter into a visual pattern that expresses nature - Instructor Bill White
Program Activities
Daily painting presentations
Group and personal instruction & demonstrations
Optional critiques
Evening concert
Art show
Campfire
Program Instructors
Bill White - Artist
Bill White has been a painter for over 60 years. He has a BFA & MFA in Painting & he taught Drawing, Painting and Modern Art History for over 40 years. He retired in 2010 as Professor Emeritus from Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. He has received grants from the Ford, Mellon and Cabell Foundations, and he has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Cite des Arts International in Paris. White’s works are in 18 Museum and Institutional Collections in the USA. His works have been in over 40 solo exhibitions and over one hundred invitational and juried group shows He is a member of the Midwest Paint Group & He is represented by Steven Francis Fine Art gallery in Lynchburg & Roanoke Virginia as well as the Village Gallery in Caledonia, NY.
All Program Sessions
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