Workshop with Cynthia Rosen

LIVESTREAM + LIVE STUDIO at GALLERY 222

Spring in Atlanta

Cynthia chose this landscape reference photo taken at the Atlanta History Museum’s Garden while competing at the Olmsted [Plein Air] Invitational. Spring is always famously on display in Atlanta and this image notes a rich mix of native plants — dogwoods and azaleas line a stone pathway leading to a gazebo and outbuildings, beneath a deep green forest canopy. In the absence of direct sunlight and shadows, we know this is an afternoon setting by the high-contrast and backlit middleground.

Demo Painting

APRIL 30, 2022: LIVESTREAM + LIVE @ Gallery 222
Cynthia demonstrated a slow build of light and dark color masses using the palette knife and decided to simplify the geometric architectural features. Out went the white gazebo on the upper left, in competition with the lower right foreground mass of white azaleas. In its place, she invented a relationship between the two geometric buildings, framed and backlit by afternoon sun. Contrasting dark linear shapes of trees, trunks and limbs created interesting diagonals leading the eyes beyond the picture plane.

“Painting in a field of limitless color, the ever changing light and sounds of a spinning world engages and challenges both perceptions and expression. No sooner do I embark on one path, when the road turns introducing new sights and inspirations, broadening my visual vocabulary with no end in sight.”
— Cynthia Rosen
 

We are pleased to host Cynthia Rosen, a nationally recognized painter and teacher, who’s vast body of work embraces all genres in addition to her expressionist plein air landscapes, captured in a kaleidoscope of colors with use of a palette knife. Cynthia’s work is represented in museums, galleries and private collections worldwide and she is a frequently invited artist and judge on the Plein Air circuit. Cynthia will lead a workshop in Normandy, “Following in the Footsteps of the Impressionists,” in Spring 2023.

Workshop Overview

HARBINGERS OF SPRING: APRIL 30
LIVESTREAM with Cynthia Rosen
Join us with guest artist Cynthia Rosen, recently returned from Olmsted Invitational in Atlanta and immediately following our workshops, will head to Wayne Plein Air in PA. Cynthia is a prolific painter, an engaging teacher and featured “plein air master” based in Vermont. In our workshop she will share her exciting, kaleidoscopic palette knife technique as we train our eyes on the subtleties of spring’s emerging colors.

Participate remotely in the morning LIVESTREAM from your location via ZOOM or join with the group at Gallery 222 in Hurleyville with additional painting in the LIVE STUDIO session following a lunch break.

SCHEDULE:
10AM to NOON: LIVESTREAM with Cynthia Rosen
In our morning session, we’ll paint together with Cynthia as she demonstrates painting a local Vermont landscape.

  • RECORDED VIDEO: Available following the session to registered attendees

  • ZOOM LINK: Emailed prior to the start of LIVE STUDIO

LUNCH BREAK: Noon to 1PM

1PM–4PM: LIVE STUDIO at Gallery 222 with Karen Meneghin
222 Main St, Hurleyville, NY
Continue further use of the palette knife to finish up the demo or paint an original landscape. Bring personal reference images or sketches.

DOWNLOADS
PHOTO REFERENCE: Available here. Click to download.
MATERIALS LIST Click to download PDF

FEES
10AM to NOON: LIVESTREAM with Cynthia Rosen, $30.00
1PM–4PM: LIVE STUDIO w/ Karen Meneghin, $30.00
LIVESTREAM + LIVE STUDIO. (FULL-DAY @ Gallery 222) $55.00

Palette knives PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE:
Add to your cart at registration and pickup Saturday, April 30 at Gallery 222.

MATERIALS LIST

  • PALETTE KNIFE: RGM #50 or #46

  • PIGMENTS: Titanium White; Prussian or Thalo Blue; Dioxazine Purple (Gamblin); Cobalt Blue (Gamblin); Cobalt Teal; Alizarin; Cadmium Red; Cadmium Orange; Cadmium Yellow; Cadmium Lemon Yellow (Gamblin)

  • BRUSHES: Sizes #10 or 12, #7 or #8, and #2 or #3

  • PANELS/CANVAS: Sizes 12x16 or 16x20 (2-3 canvases)

Still Life w/ Palette Knife: (High Speed View): Video course is a start-to-finish tutorial providing a deep understanding of the development of a still life, with a focus on the palette knife, color, and a contemporary impressionistic portrayal in your art. LINK TO ORDER FROM STREAMLINE VIDEO

About the Artist

RECENT PUBLICATIONS and EXHIBITIONS

  • Streamline Art Video: "Cynthia Rosen: Still Life With Palette Knife"

  • New Works Exhibit, Helmholz Fine Art, Feb 18, 2022; "21 for 2021" Group show at Crystal Moll Gallery, Baltimore, MD (2021-22); The Mountain Oyster Club Art Show, Tucson, AZ (Nov 2021-Jan 2022); Master Stroke (group show)Oct. 2021; Heartbeats Soar and Burst, group shows at Helmholz Fine Art, 2020 and 2021; "Les Petits Peintures” and "Trees"  group shows at The Trippe Gallery; Strong Women Move Mountains" Fryburg Academy, ME

FACULTY/JUROR

  • Plein Air Convention, 2023, Denver CO; Harford County Plein Air

COMPETITIONS

  • Plein Air Easton, 2022; Borrego Springs Invitational 2020; Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta GA: 2019, 2020 and 2021, 2022; Bath County Plein Air Festival : 'Sonya McKay' and 'People's Choice' awards 2021; Boldbrush Painting Competition Finalist, Jan 2021