Plein Air Painting with Lorenzo Chavez

Description

Lorenzo has been conducting landscape painting workshops across the country since 1993. Workshops include daily demos and lots of personal attention. They can be designed to meet your group’s interests. Lorenzo teaches both plein air and indoor sessions for landscape painting in both oil and pastel. He provides experienced workshop instruction including workshop booklets. Workshops will be advertised via his website, Facebook and listings in the Pastel Journal as well as an annual ad in the Pastel Journal art magazine. Lorenzo Chavez was born in New Mexico. His inherited connection to the colorful and historic Southwest as well as seeing the Taos Society of Artists works as a young boy was the catalyst for his art career. He graduated with honors from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1983 and continued his art education at the newly founded Arts Students League of Denver starting in 1987. Chavez has been an active professional fine artist for 40 years. He has participated in many national invitational group exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America at The National Arts Club in New York City, Artists of America Show in Denver, Plein Air Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibitions, Albuquerque Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum, Butler Art Museum, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, the Brinton Museum, the Booth Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum, Steamboat Art Museum, Taos Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Phippen Museum Arizona Cape Cod Art Museum, High Desert Museum Oregon, Leigh Yawke Museum, Hockaday Art Museum Montana, Colorado History Museum, Artist of the West Exhibitions- Featured Artist Pioneer Museum Colorado Springs, A.R. Mitchell Museum, Coors Western Art Show in Denver, Trailside Galleries, Legacy Gallery and Settlers West Gallery, Blue Rain Gallery, Invitationals. In addition, he was featured in a successful on-man show at the C.M. Russell Museum. He has participated successfully in several C.M. Russell Art Auctions and Coeur d’Alene Art Auctions. His work is featured in articles in Southwest Art, Artists of the West, Pastel Journal, American Artist, Plein Air Magazine and Art- Talk. Books include, Pure Pastel 1&2, Pratique de Arts France, Colorado Landscapes, Beautiful Landscapes Painted Outdoors.