Laura & Billy’s Excellent Plein Air Painting Adventures

The Hudson Valley Springtime - Blossoms and River Views
Friday-Monday, May 18-21, 2012
Join Laura Martinez-Bianco and William Noonan as they guide this long weekend painting workshop in The historic Hudson Valley of New York State. This poetic and enchanting landscape is sure to inspire.

 This long weekend of plein air painting will highlight the beauty of the Hudson Valley. Laura Martinez-Bianco and William Noonan will guide this four day workshop in their native environment amongst the rivers, hills and farms of the mid Hudson Valley. The work shop will strike a balance between orchards in the flush of spring bloom and the famed historical mansions of the Hudson River. Students may work in any medium they choose; Laura’s medium is pastels and William’s is oils. Light, color, time and essential impressions of the landscape will be the focus. There will be six instructed painting sessions starting on Friday afternoon and ending on Monday morning.

Class will be limited to 10 participants.
Fee is $450

Fee includes: 6 three hour instructed sessions; Friday, Saturday and Sunday dinners; local transportation to painting sites for out-of-towners without cars; entry fees to painting sites.

Fee does not include: transportation to Newburgh; *accommodations; painting materials; breakfasts, lunches; any personal incidental expenses. *A list of accommodations is available for those from out of town. Newburgh has Stewart Airport which is convenient to a variety of hotels.

Note: Local participants are encouraged not to decline the dinners as that time spent together is key to the workshop experience.  Critiques and discussions pertinent to our painting ventures will be part of our evening experience.


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List of local accommodations. Students must book and tend to their own accommodation plans.
Laura and William are instructors who live in the Hudson Valley of New York State just north of New York City.

Biography Laura Martinez-Bianco: Laura is a plein air painter who works throughout the Hudson Valley and abroad. She is adept at capturing the essence of the landscape. Working plein air enables Laura to create her pastel paintings on site, quickly capturing the light and color of a specific moment. The variety of landscapes from mountains to rivers edge from fields and pastures to forests, villages and farmhouses provide unlimited inspirations. As well as working in the Hudson Valley, Laura has traveled to Italy, Canada and Africa to paint. Her work is currently in private collections in the United States and Italy. Laura's work has been displayed at the Varga Gallery, Hudson Valley Gallery, The James Douglas Gallery and the Katonah Museum of Art. She is an active member of the NYPAP.
Laura's website: http://www.laurambianco.com/
Biography William Noonan: Originally from New York. He has a BFA from SUNY Purchase and has since studied at the New York Academy of Art, the Woodstock School of Art, The International School of Art-Umbria Italy, and the Art Students League of New York. He teaches at the Wallkill River School of Art, The Barett Art Center and The Mill Street Loft. William’s work is figurative and has a broad range that includes plein-air landscape, still life, figures, portraits and animal paintings. Primarily working in oils he also includes watercolor, drawing and printmaking techniques in his repertoire. His work has been exhibited in New York, on Cape Cod, and through various Internet venues. He is in numerous private collections in the US and Europe and has several pieces in the corporate collection on Nielsen and Bainbridge who offer his work nationally in print form. An inclination for the figure, a deep love of Italian art and the investigation of his own Italian heritage, through travel and study, inform his work.
William's website: http://www.williamnoonan.com/
Contact:
email: williambn@yahoo.com or rojobarn@aol.com
telephone: 845-565-9403 (New York, USA)
Skype: willbnoon
Note: non-painting spouses or friends are encouraged to travel with each other before or after the weekend workshop. Painters will be busy and focused on the task of painting.