Down Across Sandstone Cliffs Acrylic on canvas, 32" x 40"
This outdoor landscape workshop welcomes painters in all media to experience magnificent red rock vistas in Abiquiu, New Mexico with brush (or palette/painting knife) in hand. This exciting spot, where Georgia O’Keeffe spent the second half of her career, is located fifty miles north of Santa Fe. Emphasis in this five-day class will be placed on learning how to create effective starts, or “alla prima” paintings, using a variety of limited and full palettes, as well as colorful underpaintings. Each day will offer structured, sequential exercises for converting the three dimensional world of the outdoors into two dimensional compositions using value, chroma and contrast.
Jakki Kouffman specializes in both acrylic and pastel painting. Artists working in other media such as watercolor, gouache, water-soluble oil or traditional oil paint at all skill levels are welcome to join. Daily individual critiques in the field will be accompanied by late afternoon indoor group discussions.
Santa Fe artist/teacher Jakki Kouffman is an award-winning, widely exhibited painter. She a Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and Pastel Society of New Mexico, as well as a Master Pastellist with the Pastel Society of America. She has taught classes and workshops in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Yukon. She presently teaches weekly classes at Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education, Artisan’s ART Spot and the New Mexico Art League (Albuquerque).
To view her painting portfolio, resume, teaching schedules and student testimonials, please see www.jakkikouffman.com.
For further questions, contact her at
art@jakkikouffman.com.
High Cliffs, Morning Light Acrylic on Canvas, 40" x 30" (Private Collection)
