Connecting Eyes, Heart, Hand: Plein Air with Natasha Isenhour – G24100501
What better place than Ghost Ranch to hone your plein air chops with the grand vistas and beautiful, endlessly interesting skies?
Prepare to spend a week, learning how to capture the essence of your view through demonstration and one on one guidance. Composition, value and temperature (color) are at the core of all my classes. And painting outdoors gives you the truest sense of those concepts.
We will begin each day discussing some helpful ways to set yourself up for your best plein air experience and talk about how to zero in on your subject out in the field. My expertise is in pastel, oil, and watercolor. The concepts for a great painting are the same no matter the medium.
We have the privilege of staying and working at Casa del Sol in the Painted Desert, located in the restricted access side of the ranch and will go to the main campus for meals at the dining hall. As with all my workshops at the ranch, I encourage you to explore tours and activities offered by the ranch. We can work together to decide the best times for this so you can get the most from your workshop experience and the offerings of the ranch.
As a New Mexico artist, I have taught many classes here over the years and have spent several months over the past 4 years in residency at Ghost Ranch, as well as led the Artists in Residence program for the month of August 2021. I hope you’ll join me to share a unique and wonderful perspective on this magical place.
You will need to bring your own materials. Please see the welcome letter/Materials List PDF for more details and my contact information. You can also see more of my work and resume at http://www.natashaisenhour.com
Instructor
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Natasha Isenhour
Contemporary American Realist Natasha Isenhour expresses her emotional response to unpopulated spaces with an edgy lonesome starkness that defines the very essence of her work in oil and pastel. Isenhour exhibits throughout the southwest and teaches several sold out workshops each year, both in plein air and studio.
Highlights of 2022 included an Award of Excellence in the Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition in Dallas and a 5-week solo museum exhibition at the Taos Museum and Fechin Studio in Taos, NM. In Spring of 2023, Terry Ludwig Pastels LLC released “Natasha Isenhour Essential Alchemy Set of 60 pastels,” and she served a second year as faculty for PACE, Plein Air Convention and Expo in Denver. In August 23, she won another honorable mention in the OPA Summer Online Showcase. In 2024, she will be awards judge and workshop instructor for the Pastel Society of Colorado’s Mile High 30th International Exhibition and will be also teach a workshop at the IAPS, International Association of Pastel Societies Convention in NM.
Represented by: Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM and others.
Affiliations include: Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, American Women Artists and Plein Air Painters of NM. Distinguished Member Pastel Society of NM. Member of Oil Painters of America, Salmagundi Art Club, NYC and others.