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Join Michael for a springtime painting retreat in beautiful Zion National Park! Although there will be no formal instruction, Michael will guide you to locations and offer daily critiques. You can paint along with Michael or watch him paint as a demonstration. (Michael will work in oil or pastel, but all media are welcome.) Advanced painters only. Price TBA. To be notified of details as they develop, contact Michael at mcj.painter@gmail.com. Students arrive the afternoon/evening of Monday, April 21, and depart after breakfast on Sunday, April 27. Zion National Park is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Maynard Dixon, Franz Bischoff and many other artists have painted Zion Canyon. Michael, who participated in the 2011 "In the Footsteps of Thomas Moran" plein air invitational and led a successful painting retreat in 2012, will share many of the best painting spots. Zion National Park is about 1.5 hours from St George, Utah, and about 3 hours from Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Michael is an oil and pastel painter working in the American Southwest, coastal Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. He also specializes in teaching small-size plein air workshops in oil and pastel for the intermediate and advanced level painter and for painters desiring mentoring. Elected a Master Pastellist by Pastel Artists Canada in 2008, he is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and a juried member of Oil Painters of America. He is the author of Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil & Pastel and Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island. A long-time contributor to The Pastel Journal and Contributing Editor for The Artist's Magazine, he lives and paints on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, and in Sedona, Arizona. He teaches workshops in the summer in the Canadian Maritimes and Downeast Maine. Visit www.PaintCampobello.com for details. Visit www.PaintSedona.com for his fall/winter workshops in Sedona, Arizona. Michael also travels to teach. Visit the workshop schedule page of his website for details. Michael also has a large archive of tips and techniques for the plein air painter on his blog. |