CLOUDS: free workshop on clouds, how to identify and paint them. By artist Sarah F. Burns
May 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Time for art and science fun. On Tuesday May 14th at 7 pm at Northwest Nature Shop, local landscape artist Sarah F Burns will offer a free workshop on identifying the main type of clouds and practical strategies for drawing and painting them.
Learn the 10 main cloud types (along with some cool bonus clouds). See how artists have depicted clouds in paintings and learn which clouds will rain on you and which probably won’t.
This one-hour slide talk is designed for artists, but is really for anyone who loves to watch the sky.
This workshop is free but pre-registration is required. Call Northwest Nature Shop 541-482-3241 or email northwestnatureshop@gmail.com to sign up.
Northwest Nature Shop
Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm
This workshop is for artists and non-artists who appreciate clouds and want to learn more about constantly changing beautiful clouds.
For nearly two decades, Sarah Burns, a Southern Oregon-based artist has been painting timeless subjects that include Figures, Still-life, and Landscape. Burns has exhibited in group exhibitions at the Schneider Museum of Art, The Maryhill Museum, The Arkell Museum, Grants Pass Art Museum, Coos Art Museum, and other notable institutions. When she is not in her studio, she teaches at Project Space and Southern Oregon University. Her work has been featured in American Art Collector, Southern Oregon Magazine, among other publications. In 2016, Burns was awarded the Hudson River Fellowship by the Grand Central Atelier.
Artist Statement: “The more I make and study art, the more I find I am studying science. In order to understand what I see and create more convincing illusions, I’m looking into the biology of the retina, light, geometry, human muscular and skeletal anatomy, meteorology and geology. In turn, this scientific inquiry inspires wonder and awe for the natural world, so, in addition to its purpose of feeding the practical part of art making, it ultimately feeds the mercurial, harder-to-define emotive and spiritual part of creating art.”