RON DONOUGHE WORKSHOP

Last Thursday I headed up to Red Barn Arts  in Wellsboro, PA

to attend artist (and fellow Daily Painters of Pennsylvania member)

 Ron Donoughe's plein air workshop.  Ever since I became aware of

Ron's phenomenal paintings, I have been hoping he would offer

 a workshop.  So when I saw that he was conducting one

 in Wellsboro, PA, I immediately signed up.

 With each painting exercise we did, Ron really focused on 

the foundations - the very elements that help to make a painting

(or any work of art) 'work'.  It's no exaggeration to say

that I  learned more from Ron about painting

 fundamentals than I learned in my four years

 of college pursuing my art degree.

Here are three of the five studies I did during the workshop.  They

are not 'complete' paintings, but exercises to  practice what

we learned from Ron.  This first 10 x 8 study was done from 

inside the Red Barn Arts looking out an 

open window (we were having some light rain).  

The second 9 x 12 study was done up at the Little Grand Canyon

This third study was done in downtown Wellsboro, and was the most 

challenging - especially the shadow areas in the yellow houses.

But that's why I chose to paint this - I knew it would

be a great learning experience!

My thanks to Ron for such a fantastic workshop, and also

to Jeff and Tania at Red Barn Arts for making this all happen!

If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters