Evento

PAINTING IN THE GARDEN with Barbara Thomas

with Barbara Thomas

Sundays, October 11, 12-1:30 PM

Ages 15 and up

$45 per student, per class ($40 for Friends of SAC)

All levels. Includes supplies. Please reserve in advance.

Paint outside on the grounds of Southampton Arts Center and learn techniques for painting sky and clouds, trees, grass, shadows, and all aspects of landscape, plein air (in the open air) painting.

Rain Date: August 30

About Barbara Thomas

Barbara Thomas received her MFA at Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University, Boston, MA. She did undergraduate work at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and studied classical painting with American Naturalist Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) at The Art Students League in New York.

Barbara has had an active painting and art making practice for 50 years, working in traditional media, and in video and installation. She has also worked as an illustrator (illustrated three books in the Amelia Bedelia childrens book series published by Harper Collins, 1992-1994), a graphic designer, and advertising art director.

Barbara has been a teaching artist since 2000, teaching drawing, painting and theory and practice at Marymount College in New York, Scarsdale Adult School, Scarsdale, NY, and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. She leads private gallery drawing classes at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, and drawing and painting classes in her private studios: Beekman Studio, New York, and Springs Studio, East Hampton, NY.

Barbara has shown in galleries around the country and her painting has been featured in leading national publications.

For more information please visit www.barbarathomasart.com