Moving Landscapes: Plein Air Painting Workshop

Moving Landscapes: Plein Air Painting Workshop: In-Person

Lisa Lebofsky | Summer 2025 | Jun 10 - Jun 13

Class Description:

Join renowned landscape and plein air painting master Lisa Lebofsky for four days of in-person morning painting excursions, outdoors in Central Park.

Experiment with various painting supports and implements for producing energetic paintings of nature to capture the iconic natural beauty of Central Park in paint. Students can opt to paint on toned paper, panels, canvas, aluminum, or their choice of other prepared surface; and will utilize objects from nature such as sticks, grasses and stones to add to the mark making vocabulary of a painting. Lisa will help students to explore advanced techniques of color principles, composition, perspective, light and shadow, texture, philosophical and metaphorical approaches to painting nature, and the challenges and benefits of painting outdoors. In the end, students will learn how to paint a beautiful and meaningful landscape. *Classes will be held rain or shine.

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Workshop Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for the next session of this workshop are as follows:

Day	Date	Time
Day 1:	6/10/2025	9 am - 12 pm ET
Day 2:	6/11/2025	9 am - 12 pm ET
Day 3:	6/12/2025	9 am - 12 pm ET
Day 4:	6/13/2025	9 am - 12 pm ET

Before Class - Welcome & How to Prepare for Class
Day 1 - Introduction to Plein Air Painting
Day 2 - Adding Texture, Form & Value
Day 3 - Start a New Painting!
Day 4 - Philosophical & Metaphorical Approaches
After Class - Wrap Up

$345.00
In-Person
4 Days
Intermediate to Advanced

Meet Your Instructor

Lisa Lebofsky

Instructor

Lisa Lebofsky is a nomadic plein air painter, collaborating with nature and people. She paints the susceptibility of nature, correlating its restlessness with our vulnerabilities. Lebofsky finds inspiration by immersing herself in different environments and cultures. Regions visited include Antarctica, Greenland, and The Maldives. She is the recipient of awards including a 2024 NYFA Painting Grant, and residencies in: Shenandoah National Park, VA, Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland, New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA, Saltonstall, NY, Tilting AIR, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Jentel, WY. In 2023, Lisa was in the Tribeca Festival Artist Awards Program and her painting “Melting Iceberg 7” can be seen throughout Season 2 of Apple TV’s Severance. Lisa is back in New York after wrapping up a 3 year mission painting across North America to better know the changes happening in our environment and the people affected. She splits her time between New York City and the Western Catskills.