JEFF RIPPLE 3 DAY FIELD PAINTING WORKSHOP

Jeff Ripple Three-Day Field Painting Workshop July 17-19, 2024

Jeff Ripple is an award-winning self-trained painter whose style involves carefully planned drawings, a reliance on sketches and studies painted in nature to inform studio work, and a treatment of light and atmosphere reminiscent of 19th Century artists working in the American Hudson River School and Luminist traditions. Many of his studio paintings are from imagination, drawing from experiences, contemplation and a sense of wonder in the landscape.

Jeff believes studio paintings are most fully realized when based on field studies of light on landscape forms, atmosphere, clouds and sky in addition to highly detailed drawings of elements in that landscape, such as trees, rocks, and water. The success of the studio painting depends largely upon the value of the field sketches, and those sketches in turn require a deft ability to quickly identify, draw and paint key elements in the scene. That will be the focus of this three-day painting workshop combining fieldwork with time in a studio setting. We will strive to be able to paint or draw outside relatively quickly (2-3 hours) per location (in any media, including watercolor, oil or acrylic, pencil, pastel). We won’t be trying to create finished plein air paintings outside, but we will bring those outdoor studies into the studio to either work on them further or use them as a reference for a studio work. Jeff will also cover the use of digital photos and videos and how best to create them for effective references in the studio.

Max 6 students, $375 for the workshop. Participants bring their own supplies and a suggested supply list will be sent out prior to the workshop.

www.jeffrippleart.com jeff@jeffrippleart.com

Selected Awards

2024 Finalist January Plein Air Salon, Plein Air Magazine.
 


2022 First Place, 34th Arts in Gadsden Exhibition, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, Florida
2022 "Best Landscape," Spring 2022 Online International Exhibit, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society 2021 Honorable Mention, Blue Review Art Prize
2021 Grand Prize Winner, International Artist Magazine Challenge #124, Landscapes
2016-2020 Finalist, International Art Renewal Center Salon, New York, New York