GUEST INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP SERIES @ MCCAMPBELL ART STUDIOS
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~ Claude Monet
I'm excited to have award-winning artist Yelena Lamm as a guest instructor at my new studio space for a 3-Day Workshop, October 18-20, 2024. She is going to demonstrate and teach how to master Floral Painting. This is a rare opportunity that you won't want to miss! Class size is limited, so contact as soon as you can to get on the list and pay your deposit to hold your spot. (See flyer)
Yelena is an amazingly accomplished artist. She has gained a tremendous following and has been included in many important exhibits over the year and won awards. Her loose, brilliant approach to painting, gives movement and life to whatever her subject may be--from florals to animals to figures. She will be painting from a flower still life - teaching composition, design, color mixing and other painting techniques.
Yelena's Full Bio and CV: YL_bio-CV_2024
Artist Bio:
Yelena Lamm was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and received formal art training from the N. K. Roerich Fine Arts School. Since 1995, she has lived in Pittsburgh, PA.
Yelena paints primarily in oil. She loves to reflect on her subjects’ characters and personalities in her lively and colorful portraits of pets and animals. Yelena recently joined the Society of Animal Artists and was immediately accepted as a signature member.
Yelena’s works were selected for and won awards in juried group exhibitions, including Oil Painters of America (OPA), Society of Animal Artists (SAA), and National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) national shows. She was a finalist in the 15th ARC Salon and a semi-finalist in the 16th ARC Salon. Her list of awards includes the recent Most Original Award of Excellence in OPA 2023 Eastern Regional Exhibition and Outstanding Achievement Animals in AWA 2023 Annual Online Juried Show.
Britain’s most popular magazine for practicing artists, Artists and Illustrators, featured Yelena’s animal portraits in a 6-page article and on the cover of their June 2023 issue. Yelena’s works are represented by galleries and acquired by collectors in the U.S. and abroad.
This Workshop at McCampbell Art Studios, in Centerville TN:
Join Yelena for an immersive and vibrant 3-day workshop focused on painting flowers from life. This dynamic course will guide you through the essential techniques of alla-prima oil painting, helping you to master your approach to composition, color harmonies and values. You will work with a limited primary palette and have an option of expanding this palette to boost your skills creating rich, cohesive artworks. Explore your creativity and enhance your artistic abilities in this 3-day intensive.
Some experience is recommended, but beginners and first-time oil painters are welcome and encouraged to join.
Materials:
•Surfaces:
•Brushes:
I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
•Palette
•Medium: linseed oil and container for oil
•Small sketch book, graphite or charcoal pencil
•Oil paints:
Flowers are colorful subjects indeed. I realized that if I start naming all the pigments that could be used for the workshop, the list would go on and on. I came up with a limited palette which is fun to work with and allows for a full range of bright chromatic colors. It includes:
•Quinacridone Rose
•Phthalo Turquoise
•Cadmium Yellow Lemon
•Transparent Oxide Red
•Cobalt Blue
•Titanium White
Additional colors I like, all of these are optional:
•Cadmium red light
•Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
•Viridian
•Sap Green
•Green Gold (MH)
•Radiant Turquoise (Gamblin)
•Radiant Green (Gamblin)
•Amethyst (MH) – or any nice purple or violet
Bring your favorite bright pinks, oranges, yellows, purples — or stay within a limited palette.
PAYMENT:
You can make the full payment of $490 or pay a $100 deposit to Rachael McCampbell and her Art Studio through Venmo. The remaining $390 is due by September 20, 2024. Here's the QR code:
