Rachael McCampbell, Artist

Guest Artist Yelena Lamm, March 7-9, 2025
2025-03-07 09:00 - 2025-03-09 16:00 (America/New_York) | McCampbell Art Studio, 208 E. Public Square, Centerville, TN, 37033
Come join us for a second Floral Painting 3-Day Workshop with award winning artist Yelena Lamm. She will teach part II of her first course she taught in 2024. She will cover how to create a successful composition of impressionistic floral arrangements and will go deeper into color mixing and brushstroke techniques. Yelena will share how she achieves such bright, loosely painted flowers. This class will be held from 9-4 daily.
Bring your lunch with you or order from the nearby restaurants in Centerville on or near the town square.
This workshop is held at McCampbell Art Studio, LLC, 208 East Public Square, Centerville, TN 37033. You will have your own table, chair and easel. McCampbell will provide coffee and tea.
Payments:
$490 is due by February 15, 2025
Pay with Credit Card for Class : Full amount of $490 plus 3% fee=$504.70
Or, pay with Venmo to me for no extra fee.

GUEST INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP SERIES @ MCCAMPBELL ART STUDIOS
2024-10-18 08:00 - 2024-10-20 17:00 | McCampbell Art Studio, 208 E. Public Square, Centerville, TN, 37033
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:
Flowers, as artistic subjects, offer an infinite variety in form and color, carrying deep symbolic meanings, evoking a wide range of emotions, fostering a connection to nature, and allowing for artistic freedom in terms of interpretation and style.

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:

Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 8˝x10˝ and 12˝x16˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas Panels. Small (5”x7” or so) surfaces for color thumbnails; can be scrap canvas pieces, oil paper, primed watercolor paper or board.

•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 on site 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:

Paint With Me in the Smokies! June 4-11, 2024
2024-06-04 08:00 - 2024-06-11 17:00
Have you ever taken an “Art-cation”?
This is a phenomenal painting trip in the gorgeous Smoky Mountains for 7 nights. Everywhere we go is gorgeous and so close by. We stay in a stunning, historical inn with private bedrooms with comfy beds. You will be treated to full, gourmet breakfasts and 3 course dinners. We paint in the mornings and after lunch, then we meet again before dinner. We have a great amount of teaching time by Rachael and you will learn a great deal from the other painters too. What’s so lovely about Rachael’s trips is that artists bond and make friendships that last a lifetime.
We even get to have a private viewing of the synchronous fireflies one night at a special undisclosed location.
This year we are going to focus on taking the landscape and pushing your interpretation of it beyond the “obvious,” and to another level. This trip ranges in price from $3,800-$4,200 for a private room or cabin. If you have questions, please contact Rachael at her email: rachael@rachaelmccampbell.com.

Cold Wax Workshop, Jan. 23-26, 2024 Centerville, TN
2024-01-23 08:00 - 2024-01-26 17:00
I’m excited to hold a workshop in my new space in Centerville, TN on the historic town square.
Join me Jan. 23-26, 2024, for a four-day workshop focusing on Cold Wax Medium and abstracting from nature. This will be an intensive four days where I cover all the basics of Cold Wax Medium and Oil. I will demonstrate many methods (about 15) that you can incorporate your Cold Wax Practice working from representational to abstraction using techniques that are akin to printmaking.
This will be an intense class in learning about all the amazing things you can do with Cold Wax and oil –from representational work to abstract painting using techniques akin to printmaking. It’s so fun and you get such unexpected results.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Painting with Cold Wax Medium (CWM) is a hugely popular method with artists all over the world. If you like working with oil paints and mixed media painting, then this is the workshop for you. Students will learn how to build layers of oil paint mixed with CWM on paper or panels, add textures, and use printmaking and mark-making techniques to create gorgeous works of art. You will discover how to incorporate powdered pigments into your work and to draw and paint with R & F pigment sticks. You will add layers and then remove them using solvents and scratch-through techniques to find older layers and unexpected shapes and colors below. Painting with CWM and oil lends itself to both representational or abstract art and working with it is a process-oriented medium that allows for experimentation and play.
Open to all skill levels, however a basic knowledge of oil painting is preferred.

Workshop at Ghost Ranch-Sept. 25- Oct. 3, 2023 – Join Me
2023-09-25 08:00 - 2023-10-03 17:00
September 25 – October 3, 2023 Painting Workshop, Abiquiu, NM
Come paint for 8 glorious nights with me in Georgia O’keeffe’s country where she lived and worked. The vistas are breathtaking. There is so much to paint and be inspired by –it’s unreal! We will paint plein air every day (weather permitting) and have our own art center to paint any time you’d like. Every artist will have a bedroom (unless you double up) with an ensuite bath and communal kitchen/living space for the whole group to share in the early mornings and evenings.
With 21,000 acres of land, Ghost Ranch has many gorgeous hiking trails and places to explore. They even have a Paleontology Museum there, horseback riding, fishing and massage therapy. Part of our trip is a private tour of of the ranch to see some of the famous spots where Georgia O’Keeffe actually painted her magnificent works of art!
Please join me for this once in a lifetime trip to Ghost Ranch where I will demonstrate Plein air painting and give a great deal of one-on-one attention to each artist. We will have a lot of time to gather and paint and talk about art. This will be a very bonding and deeply creative trip.
If you are interested, contact me soon as spots are being filled and it’s a small trip of artists going. I will send you all the forms necessary. We will have a zoom meeting to introduce everyone who is going on the trip and to discuss all supplies needed and any questions anyone has about this trip. Email: rachael@rachaelmccampbell.com

SEE THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES BELOW FROM 2021 WHEN I TOOK A GROUP THERE TO GHOST RANCH.

Cold Wax Medium Workshop Aug., 13, 14 & 15 in Vienna, VA
2023-08-13 09:00 - 2023-08-15 16:00
I’m so happy to announce to announce that I’m teaching a 3-Day workshop at the Vienna Arts Society in Vienna, Virginia.
This is always a fun and hugely informative class because I cover a great deal of information in 3 days. You will learn so much about Cold Wax Medium and how to use it in so many applications –both in realism and abstraction.
This will be an intense class in learning about all the amazing things you can do with Cold Wax and oil –from representational work to abstract painting using techniques akin to printmaking. It’s so fun and you get such unexpected results.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Painting with Cold Wax Medium (CWM) is a hugely popular method with artists all over the world. If you like working with oil paints and mixed media painting, then this is the workshop for you. Students will learn how to build layers of oil paint mixed with CWM on paper or panels, add textures, and use printmaking and mark-making techniques to create gorgeous works of art. You will discover how to incorporate powdered pigments into your work and to draw and paint with R & F pigment sticks. You will add layers and then remove them using solvents and scratch-through techniques to find older layers and unexpected shapes and colors below. Painting with CWM and oil lends itself to both representational or abstract art and working with it is a process-oriented medium that allows for experimentation and play.
Open to all skill levels, however a basic knowledge of oil painting is preferred.
Images from past Cold Wax Workshops.

Rachael McCampbell teaching Cold Wax Medium to The Vienna Arts Society in VA

Cold Wax Medium Workshop At the Art Barn, Cincinnati, OH April 2021

The Vienna Arts Society who took my 2-day Cold Wax Medium Workshop. What a joy it was! Great women, great artists!

Oil and Cold
Wax Medium. 20 x 20″ on panel by Rachael McCampbell ©2020

Paint the Smokies With Me June 6-13, 2023!
2023-06-06 08:00 - 2023-06-13 17:00
Join me for seven amazing nights at an historic inn in East TN near Gatlinburg for a a week of painting in gorgeous locales, eating great food and meeting fabulous artists. This is an ideal trip for artists who really want to paint their hearts out and be in an inspiring and relaxing setting with other creative folks to learn more about your craft and make friends for a lifetime.

Paint Plein Air,
Stay in a Charming, Historic Inn,
Enjoy Nature,
Dine in Luxury,
Relax in a Gorgeous Location
and Make New Friends!
PLACES TO PAINT:

Come paint the Smoky Mountains or
Bring your rubber boots, stand in a rushing mountain creek and paint a gorgeous, covered bridge or
Paint on land — capture an old barn, cabin or structure or
Try your hand at beehives amidst a field of wildflowers with a stunning view of Mt. LeConte
If roaring mountain streams with rocks and trees are your ideal subject matter, we have them large and small or
Perhaps you want to paint an elegant pair of swans who grace the Inn’s peaceful pond — it’s there for you
There are plenty of beautiful details to paint too like the indigenous Rhododendron and Mountain Laurels which bloom on the grounds
THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE ON THIS PAINTING TRIP! SEE MORE INFO WITH PHOTOS BELOW!

Email me for more information and availability. Don’t wait too long, spaces are limited!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO FROM LAST YEAR’S TRIP TO THE SMOKIES!

AGENDA:
Your afternoons are free to see the Park or to tour the many artisan studios that abound in the Gatlinburg area. We will then gather for a three-course dinner followed by some circle time to discuss our process as artists and to share our work from the day.
This trip is from Tuesday to Tuesday (7 nights) with all meals paid except for Friday’s lunch and dinner. Friday will be a FREE day to allow those who want to go to the Park to do so. This is a day for everyone to do as they wish. Only breakfast is included on this day. Neither transportation nor alcohol is included in this week long trip. All instruction, rooms and most meals are included.

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Enjoy seven glorious nights in the oldest Inn operating in East Tennessee with breathtaking mountain views. The minute you enter the grounds, you step into a slower-paced Southern homestead where a sense of tranquility prevails. This historic Inn is rich with charm as the bedrooms are beautifully furnished with antiques, artwork and English chintz.
The cottages all have fireplaces, king beds and jacuzzi tubs. Sitting on 25 acres, there are plenty of nature trails and a pond to explore. Take in all the local flora and fauna. There’s even a labyrinth that adds a soulful touch to an already spiritual walk amongst the grounds.
Feel the stresses of your life melt away as you sit in a large rocking chair on the porch watching the hawks soar over the trees as the sun rises and sets over the Smoky Mountains. In June, the fireflies will be at their best, providing a magical light show to the soundtrack of cicadas and tree frogs.
Most rooms are private with king beds. Some rooms can be shared with a sofa bed. Husbands and partners are welcome for an additional cost.
SIGN UP NOW! SPACE IS LIMITED!
When information about this trip was posted on Facebook, several spots immediately filled. I have several rooms left as of now, so don’t hesitate to get more information ASAP!
Please contact me for prices, registration forms and more information. Thank you!
Email: rachael@rachaelmccampbell.com
WATCH THIS VIDEO WHICH SHOWS YOU WHERE YOU WILL STAY AND PAINT ETC…
HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US!
