Everything starting up this fall! Here's the whole lineup, click through for details Wednesday Atelier Intensive (multi-year drawing & painting program) → https://www.buckscountyclassicalartscenter.org/store/p42/pencildrawingandpaintingprogram.htmlWednesday Figure Drawing Long Pose Class → https://www.buckscountyclassicalartscenter.org/store/p12/figuredrawing.htmlBasic Charcoal Drawing → https://www.buckscountyclassicalartscenter.org/store/p14/learntodraw.htmlFriday Quick Sketch/ Constructive...
13 days ago • 1 min read
Friday's plein-air session is cancelled We will find a make up time soon Hi all, I'm cancelling tomorrow's landscape session at Lake Nockamixon. Air quality is expected to be poor, and painting outdoors for hours in it isn't worth the risk to anyone's lungs. I know it's a disappointing way to lose a session, especially with the weather otherwise cooperating. We'll schedule a make up day once everyone can be there together, and I'll get that date to you as soon as it's set. Thanks for...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Two sessions this week. Here is where to go. Both classes are now running: All levels welcome. Beginners to advanced. FRIDAY JULY 17 Perkasie areaLake Nokamixon Fishing PierPIN: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TZzQPKktE5DJzYsY7Use the pin. 9am to noon. $47 drop-in. Text me if you are running late: 267-221-6046 Use the parking pin first, then walk to the painting location. 9am to noon. SUNDAY JULY 19 New Hope and the riverWashington Crossing Historic ParkPIN:...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
This Sunday the Student Show Opens 2PM Artist Talk Hello Reader, Pennswood Art Gallery's Emerging Artists show, featuring students of Bucks County Classical Arts Center, opens July 12 in Newtown PA. Artist Talk and Opening at 2pm. Free and open to the public. A year of studio work on the wall. Grisaille portraits, cast drawings, figure drawings, plein air studies, oil paintings. Come and bring someone who has been curious about what classical atelier training produces. The work is the answer....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Watercolor Fridays start in our new location All levels welcome. Beginners to advanced. Hello Reader, When people sign up for one of my watercolor classes, they think they are signing up to learn how to paint. What I hope to offer is something more than that... Long before a class begins, I am thinking about the experience I want to create for you. The colors that will find their way onto your palette. The conversations that unfold around the table. The feeling I hope you carry home when the...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Mood's Covered Bridge on Friday the 3rd. Washington's Crossing Sunday the 12th.Here is what to know. Both classes are now running: All levels welcome. Beginners to advanced. Summer light and heat are different from the spring. We gather in the morning to get some work done before it is too hot! We can also work in the shade in both spots. Here is what is coming up this week: Friday July 3: PerkasieMood's Covered Bridge Park, PerkasieParking lot, port-o-let, multiple painting views including a...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Two outdoor painting classes: New Hope Sundays and Perkasie Fridays All levels welcome. Beginners to advanced. Sundays near New Hope and the Delaware River June 14 through August 2. 7 sessions. $47 drop-in or $300 for the series → Enroll 1st Location is Aquetong Spring Park In New Hope. See the other locations Fridays near Perkasie and Doylestown June 19 through July 24.Fridays near Perkasie and Doylestown 6 sessions. $47 drop-in or $250 for the series. → Enroll 1st Location is Aquetong Park...
3 months ago • 1 min read
We found a summer home Hello Reader, Starting in June, Bucks County Classical Arts Center will be running a summer pop-up at 99 Stockton Suites, Kingwood-Stockton Road, Suite 6B in Rosemont, NJ — off Route 519, about ten minutes from Lambertville. Newly renovated, easy parking, and the sign is already on the door. May classes continue as scheduled at St. Martin of Tours in New Hope. Nothing changes before June -same days, same times, same room. Same name, same instructors, same approach to...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Four sessions into Spring Plein Air and this Friday we're at a new location. Hello Reader, Mood's Covered Bridge Park in Perkasie. There's a parking lot, the essentials are covered, multiple good painting views right from where you park, and a short walk to a river overlook that's worth the extra few minutes. Good subject matter all around — the bridge, water, tree canopy. And yes, there's a Dunkin' Donuts nearby if you need to start the morning right. We're continuing the color work from the...
4 months ago • 1 min read
This Friday: the problem with green Hello Reader, Spring is the hardest season to paint outdoors. Not because it's cold or the light is bad — because everything is green, and green is more complicated than it looks. We're three sessions into Spring Plein Air, and this Friday we're staying with the posterization approach we introduced last week — simplifying what's in front of you into clear committed color masses — with a specific focus on reading and mixing the greens. Here's the thing about...
4 months ago • 1 min read