Stapleton Kearns

    

 I am delighted to announce the 17th annual SNOWCAMP Workshop from Saturday, February 28th throughMonday, March 2nd. That is three days. I charge 400 dollars per person, a 200 dollar deposit up front, and 200 dollars final payment at the event. Please understand that this is a nonrefundable deposit. If you sign up I will hold your spot in the class for you, regardless of whether you actually are intending to come. That is what your deposit hires me to do and guarantees you will receive. So please don't sign up unless you actually are intending to take the class. SNOWCAMP is a winter workshop. It might be cold, I will still run the workshop even if it is cold, actually, cold is good. In New England, cold means blue skies and beautiful light . . . usually. The class size is limited so everybody will get some personal attention and I stand a chance of knowing each of you. Each morning I will do a demo and in the afternoon the students will paint and I will run from easel to easel and teach each student individually. I have several painting exercises to help build the students' skills in landscape painting. We meet for breakfast and dinner. After dinner, I will do an evening lecture and slide show on design, snow painting and historic New England art. SNOWCAMP is a lot of fun, and I hope to teach you as much as I possibly can, in the three days it runs. I can save you YEARS of screwing around! This is as intense an experience as I can figure out how to make it, and you will do little else but paint, eat and sleep while you are there. I will work you like a borrowed mule. The Inn is in the most beautiful and dramatic location, and the views of the White Mountains are incredible. It is a GREAT place to paint. The Inn is a little isolated, and that is good. I park my car in the lot and leave it there until the workshop is over. I just think about painting for the time I am there. Camaraderie is an important part of the workshop and we will all be good friends before the workshop is over. One of the important things I teach is the opalescent color of snow. I will show you a system for creating the look of snow in light using broken color. I will explain what colors I have on my palette and what their characteristics are. I will show you how to develop a painting in monotone if you need to separate the problem of drawing from that of color. In the evening lectures, I will show you strategies used by the great painters to solve the problems of arranging a painting. SNOWCAMP usually fills, so if you want to come, let me know. The Inn takes care of all our needs and it is required that you stay there to participate. If you absolutely must stay off campus, a day rate can be arranged with the inn. All of the lodging and reservations can be made with The Sunset Hill House. If you go to their website or call them, be sure to ask them for the special rate they make for the workshop. The Inn has a dinner meal service for us and a bar and wine cellar. We are able to keep our equipment in the lower level of the inn so we won't have to drag our kit back to our rooms or sleep next to wet oil paintings at night. Artists generally arrive at the inn on that Friday night and check out on Monday morning from their rooms. The workshop will continue until late afternoon and we will all drive home then. IN the event of a blizzard and difficult driving conditions you might want to choose to stay Monday night too. Usually the inn will allow you to continue with the rental if you need to. Weather up in the White mountains can be very dicey. The procedure is this: first call The Sunset Hill House at (603) 823-7244 and book your room, then call or email me to sign up. My number is (603) 216 5559, my email is stapletonkearns@gmail.com. I hope to see you there! -- Stapleton Kearns