Weekend Art Getaways

 

National Art Seminars taught in a fun-filled classroom at exciting locations are hallmarks of Linda Coulter's Weekend Art Getaways.

Coulter teaches several art styles, including:

Acrylics:  grisaille,bistre

Oil Painting:  pure color glazes, alla prima

PanPastels & Sofft Tools:  quick and easy pastel painting

 

Are you ready for an art adventure?

Click here for dates and locations.

 

 

Students gather around Linda Coulter during her painting demonstrations as she explains step by step how to create the weekend's projects.  She answers questions and helps students correct mistakes.

 

 

Linda Coulter's Weekend Art Getaway classrooms are private and comfortable.  Size of class ranges from 6 to 32 students, depending on the location and classroom size. 

 

 

Couples love to paint together and enjoy Coulter's Weekend Art Getaway locations.  This happy couple delighted in learning the grisaille techniques of Linda Coulter.

 

 

 

 

Beginners love to learn Linda Coulter's art techniques.  Making old master techniques easy for today's beginner painters is Linda Coulter's specialty. .

 

 

 

Classrooms are well lighted and often there is soft music playing in the background.  Students bring a sack lunch and plan to spend the day learning, painting and having great fun!

 

 

This class in St Claire, Quebec, is busy learning Linda Coulter's grisaille techniques, followed by pure color glazes.

 

These ladies from Quebec and New York studied with Linda Coulter to learn how to teach grisaille and pure color glazes.  Linda is standing with them in the back row next to the shop owner who hosted the certification seminars.

 

 

 

Students enjoy milling around the classroom during break to see other students' work and discuss the new art techniques learned that day.

 

 

 

These students from Nottingham, England, enjoyed learning Linda Coulter's grisaille and pure color glazing techniques.  The subjects this weekend were painting roses and another project in trompe l'oeil.

 

 

 

You can tell by their big smiles that these students from Korea enjoyed their seminar with Linda Coulter even with a language barrier.  Art can be learned by doing and watching.  Hand gestures are wonderful tools for explanation. 

 

Linda Coulter demonstrates step by step each project she teaches at Weekend Art Getaways.  Then students return to their seats to try the techniques while Linda circulates around the room to help correct mistakes and answer questions.

 

These students from New York, Kentucky and Illinois joined Linda Coulter for a teacher certification course in grisaille and pure color glazes.  These were their first paintings in this art style.

 

During a Weekend Art Getaway at a southern Mississippi plantation students decided to join Linda Coulter to tour more plantations near New Orleans.  This photo of Oak Alley shows the students milling around to admire the beautiful plantation house and grounds while taking photographs to use as their source material for future grisaille projects.  The students are pictured below as they gathered in front of Oak Alley in Louisiana.

 

Australian art teachers, Kerri Kovak and Chis Roy. attended a Coulter Art Weekend Getaway to learn Linda Coulter's grisaille and pure color glazing art style as applied to a portrait of a French waiter serving wine and roses. 

The man shown in the photograph in front of the class was the official model that weekend, posing as the French model.  French cuisine was provided each day at lunchtime and one evening for dinner. 

 

 

Hawaiian artist, Eileen Lacerte, also attended this Coulter Weekend Art Getaway and is pictured here with the weekend's model.  

Students from other areas of the nation attended this getaway.  The ladies sipped French wines, sampled French cheeses with baguettes, and French chocolates during break time.

 

 

Join Linda Coulter this year for an exciting Weekend Art Getaway at your favorite location.   Click here for more information.

 

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