Landscape Painting

Workshop with Roger Chavez at Laurel Hill on Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2021 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Take on the challenge of painting from the landscape at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The ever-changing subject can bring a beneficial approach to your own painting with rapid thinking and swift mark-making, meanwhile developing your intuitive thinking. Studying landscape masterpieces from masters like Camille Corot, John Constable, and Eugene Isabey, you will be able to extract ways to prepare surfaces for painting landscape as well as to study mark making which flesh out foliage, trees, mountains, atmosphere, and clouds. Laced with the study of masterworks, the class will make excursions to paint the nearby landscape in this two-day Landscape Painting Workshop hosted by Penn Studio School of Art.

This weekend workshop will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 12 & 13, 2021 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, on the grounds of Laurel Hill Cemetery at 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19132.

Ticket pricing is $225/General Admission. To learn more and purchase tickets, click the Purchase Tickets button below or click here.

Instructor: Roger Chavez

Information on directions and parking and visiting guidelines, including social distancing guidelines, are linked here to better plan your visit.

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