This week-long course will provide an immersive experience in the Plein Air tradition of landscape painting. Set at Barley Sheaf Farm, in pastoral central Bucks County, PA, students will hone their skills under the watchful eye of instructor Simon Parkes. Parkes, an accomplished art conservator who has been dubbed heir to the Plein Air tradition, will guide students in the techniques and philosophy of Plein Air.
"Alone with the ticks in the sun and the rain," Parkes says, "I feel as if the world freezes for me in an instant.

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New Offering
Emerging Artists Summer Workshop
Rebecca Tait and Erin McGrath
July 7 - July 11, 2008
Tuition - $399

Emerging Artists workshop offers a unique opportunity for serious high-school students to learn the fundamentals
of still life drawing and painting in a traditional atelier
environment. This course exposes the young artist to the
fascinating and enlightening principles of color theory and
training the eye to truly "see and not think" color. Monday and Tuesday consists of quick interpretive paintings focusing on training the eyes to accurately key the chroma as well as the light and dark relationships. By Wednesday, each student is guided on setting up a powerful, structural still life of his or her choice.

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New Offering
Anatomizing the Shadow Shape
Frank Porcu
June 23 - June 27, 2008
Tuition - $600

This workshop is designed to aid the student of painting in the analysis of form. Students will learn to dissect light and shadow formations while developing skills to decide what is necessary and what is not. Anatomical laws of human construction will be covered and a science of planar modeling will be stressed.
The goal will be for students to gain the skills to homogenize visual information, structural analysis, and anatomical truths into their work.

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Form Painting with the Figure
Stephen Early and Darren Kingsley
July 7 - July 11, 2008
Tuition - $600

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New Offering
Drawing Structure and Color with Painting Workshop
Dan Thompson
July 14 – July 25, 2008
Tuition $1,400

 Week One: Long Pose Figure Drawing
 The major focus this week is to create drawings from life that have a compelling sense of having overcome challenges. Beginning with shorter poses, an alternative set of concepts about perceptual drawing and gestural vitality is cultivated.  Students also will concentrate on the opposing framework of inner structure. Days three through five will consist of one long pose, which allows students to push the ideas and practices of the first two days to more advanced levels. Structure in figure drawing will be clarified on an individual basis, with personal critiques and margin drawings on each student's page. Attention is paid to the strategy of tonal mapping, specifying proportion without measuring, sensitivity to patterns and composing effectively, and modeling or shading, as the end game of the drawing.

Week Two: Figure Painting with the Light Key
 Color on the human figure will be revealed through the experience of the light key.  Thereafter, specific light keys on the human body and its immediate environment, which constitute a likeness of illumination, will be studied through alternating artificial and natural light.  The week will cover dramatic keys at first, with shorter poses accordingly, and then gradually expand to more subtle and longer poses.  By week's end, the student will have greater awareness of how to incorporate this principle, as well as other compelling examples of the importance of the light in painting.  

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Art Educator's Workshops
Instructor Natalie Italiano

• Workshops open to all art teachers. Middle and high school teachers are encouraged to apply.
• Workship supplies not included in tuition. An on-site store is available for supplies.
• Workshop content addresses Pennsylvania Academic and National Standards for Arts Education.
• Earn 30 hours of PDE Act 48 credits
$50 gift certificate for school store purchases included with registration.

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Intensive Painting Workshop
Nelson Shanks and Studio Incamminati Instructors
July 21 – August 1, 2008
Tuition - $1,600

 Led by the advanced Studio Incamminati teaching faculty and Nelson Shanks, the Intensive Painting Workshop offers the serious student an unparalleled opportunity to experience the progressive stages of study as taught in Studio Incamminati's Professional Program within a concentrated period of time.
 Demonstrations precede each introduced concept; which is then practiced by the students under the guidance of Studio Incamminati teaching faculty. Students leave the program with an understanding and examples of the concepts of open and closed grisailles, color studies in various light conditions and developing a figure in color. Gesture, proportions, superficial anatomy, tonal value and color relationships are each explored.
 During the workshop, students will experience a live figure painting demonstration by Nelson Shanks, and enjoy a visit to his private studio. Students will receive a certificate of completion for the workshop. The workshop is held in the spacious north light studios of Studio Incamminati, located in historic Philadelphia.

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Still Life Painting Workshop
Kerry Dunn
August 4 - August 8, 2008
Tuition -  $550

 The visual image can be broken and analyzed through the means of the following basic elements: Shape, value, color and edge quality. Shape involves tilts, angles and distances through drawing, creating abstract geometric relationships. Value covers the analysis of light and shadow and tonal gradation, creating a relative range of darks and lights. Color focuses on looking at abstract color relationships, determining chromatic intensity and separating local color from the color of light and shadow.  Convincing edge quality describes how light falls across form, whether it is relatively sharp or soft and transitional. These elements work simultaneously in relationship to each other to create a strong visual impression.
 In this workshop, students will define and practice these four building blocks and develop a painting through careful analysis and composition of these components. The study of still life is conducive to this analytical thought-process, and allows the student to critically select compositional aspects both in the still life set-up and on the canvas.
 During the workshop, students will work towards a developed painting, augmented by color and compositional studies. Open to artists of all levels and abilities, students will be walked through each element of the painting as well as the overall development that the painting goes through. Students are encouraged to bring in a variety of simple still life objects that interest and excite them (highly textured and reflective surfaces are not recommended.)

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Transitioning from Color Study to a Developed Painting
Robin Dawn Frey
August 11 - August 15, 2008

 This one week still-life workshop emphasizes finding the rhythm in painting and learning when to make the shifts between balancing composition, drawing and color within a painting.
 The workshop will commence from setting up a still-life and working out a composition with thumbnail sketches the first day, then developing a color study, and then an open grisaille through day two. Days three and four would be designated for the actual painting, working out the drawing issues, color development, keeping paint layers thin and even, and finding the areas where there would be more build-up of impasto and texture. Day five would involve a refining process:  removing what is not needed, and adding finishing details.

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New Offering
Drawing the Human Figure in Silverpoint
Robert Liberace
August 15, 16, 17, 2008
Tuition - $350

Silverpoint is one of the oldest, most noble drawing techniques. Great masters such as Pisanello, Raphael and DaVinci were enchanted by this precious metal and they revealed the graphic beauty and artistic power of silverpoint in their art. This class examines the traditions and techniques of silverpoint by creating drawings made with silver.
Using a simple stylus made of silver wire and wood, students practice this ancient craft through the exploration of the human figure. Various methods of hatching,crosshatching and linear glazing will be studied through drawing demonstrations and analysis of past masters. Silverpoint stylus and prepared paper are required.
Many art stores carry a silverpoint stylus.
A resource for materials is silverpointweb.com/catalog.html

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Advanced Portrait Workshop
August 18 - August 29, 2008
Tuition - $1,750

 In response to the great demand from our growing alumni, Studio Incamminati is offering an intensive Portrait Painting Workshop focusing on the needs of advanced students.  Recommended to students who have previously studied with Mr. Shanks and to other accomplished artists, this is the opportunity to further develop and incorporate the techniques taught at Incamminati, with a focus on portraiture. Demonstrations will take Incamminati principal techniques and apply these to the issues of a more developed portrait painting. Workshop includes a live portrait demonstration by Nelson Shanks a visit to his private studio, and two evening  lectures by experts in portraiture.  

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