John Clayton
Monday - Friday
July 7 - 11
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

This is a color-based Plein air workshop designed for artists to grasp a better understanding of Light and color. The artist will paint from life. John will show various ways to mix and apply color that will make your painting light filled and express the light key. We will work on getting good structural design through values and color. Each class will have a different lesson. Using various tools (Brushes as well as a painting knife) the artists will work on getting good color notes to bring out expressive designs. We will also go over the use of creating Notan for our designs.  We will work in and around Truro creating small paintings and drawings and bring them back to the studio to determine which would make a large studio painting.

John Clayton left the grey walls of The Art Students League of New York searching for his own artistic voice. Clayton’s journey led him to the Cape School in Provincetown where he embraced the “Art of Seeing Color” as taught by the late Henry Hensche and Charles W. Hawthorne. Clayton would paint outdoors as often as he could and over many years, Clayton matured into a devoted plein air painter. He now makes his living painting and teaching throughout Cape Cod in the summertime and the streets of Key West in the winter. John was the recipient of the Arthur and Melville Philips Scholarship and the Mrs. Roberts Forbes Scholarship at the National Academy. Clayton was featured in the Provincetown Art Association’s 1999 “Emerging Artists Exhibition”.  

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