9th annual Niagara "Day in an Artist Studio" Feb 7, 2016

American Contemporary plein air painter. http://www.permissiongranted.org/Artist-Studio.html 9th Annual Day in an artist studio - February 7, 2016 Sign up for a one day 'Mini Holiday" Give the gift to yourself or someone on your friend list. Workshop one day only... Experience what it's like to be an "ARTIST FOR A DAY", whether you've ever even picked up a paintbrush before or not. Our annual, all inclusive mini holiday - a DAY IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO- sensory workshop You are invited to the experience of spending a creative day in an artist studio to awaken the creative person you truly are. Come feel the warmth of an inviting cozy fire, Sip the gourmet coffee and teas Enjoy a light lunch with new friends All supplies needed to create your personal oil painting. EVERYONE is creative - come spend a creative relaxing day with us ... Includes 10 - 3 pm workshop instruction 1 artist canvas Use of environmentally friendly oil paints and brushes Learn how body & mind connect to help you use your this new found creativity to relieve stress and affect people around you. only $65.00 per person + tax ($73.45) Go home with your finished original painting Sign up with a friend and give yourself the gift of time limited space available for this workshop Studio location 7973 Lundy's Lane Niagara Falls, Ontario Adult or preapproved juvenile Call 1 800 393-7270 or 905.354.8692 to register *Full payment is required by PayPal to hold your space in the workshop. Questions ? Call Mon-Sat EST 9-5 at 1 800 393-7270

Art Workshop Sarasota, Florida March 2016

American Contemporary plein air painter. NEW workshop for 2016. Going to be in Florida for the winter ? Join us in Sarasota for this annual awesome workshop. Bring a friend, it's doubly awesome smile emoticon
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Sarasota Longboat Key plein air painting art workshop

American Contemporary plein air painter. Recently spent a few weeks painting in the Sarasota/Longboat Key area Dates for Sarasota plein air painting workshop will be posted on www.permissiongranted.org as soon as they are available.

Niagara Arts and Culture Wall of Fame - Lynda Reeves HGTV host

American Contemporary plein air painter.

Niagara Arts and Culture Wall of Fame 2014 Inductee
- Lynda Reeves( from her website)

Lynda is the founder and publisher of House & Home magazine and its French-language counterpart, Maison & Demeure. A former interior designer, Lynda has spent the past 27 years hosting TV shows, writing her own columns and speaking about design and decorating on national TV and radio. 

Ms. Reeves was recently in Niagara Falls to accept an award from the Niagara Falls Arts & Culture committee.

She graciously posed for some photographs with former recipients on the wall of fame.

Lynda is the host and Executive Producer of H&H Online TV that features house tours, decorating lessons, cooking segments and design news. New episodes are available weekly on demand at houseandhome.com/tv

Creativity retreats - new 2015 scheduled updated soon

American Contemporary plein air painter.

www.permissiongranted.org

Looking for a short 2-3 hour program for your upcoming conference or convention ?

Contact us to find out how Creativity through art, may increase creativity in your company and decrease sick days with

stress reduction techniques easy to learn.

Niagara Whispers- oil painting on canvas

American Contemporary plein air painter.
 "Niagara Whispers" oil on canvas
SOLD

J.R. Baldini:  Creativity in painting Landscapes – Painting in Oil
Riverbrink Art Museum new workshop November 1
contact manager@riverbrink.org

American Contemporary plein air painter.

"The magnetic frequency of the earth’s surface
is roughly 7.5 hertz, which corresponds to the theta
and alpha brain waves that occur during meditative
and creative states."
 

 

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plein air painter - Prince of Wales Hotel, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario

American Contemporary plein air painter.

Prince of Wales Hotel, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario
12 x12 oil on canvas
© J.R. Baldini
contact the studio at 1.800.393.7270

American Contemporary plein air painter.
Does the Monhegan Workshop whisper to your soul?
J.R. Baldini and Molly Delaney, Psy.D
All levels welcome to participate at your own pace
Transformational workshop allowing your creativity to surface.
http://artworkshops.homestead.com/monheganworkshop.html
Use it to communicate, grow as an artist, handle stress and PAINT !.

If you've ever had the good fortune to spend time on an island in Maine, you know how magical an experience it can be... a place where time seems to stand still and you can hear your inner voice whispering all the possibilities of the day...

I've been painting Monhegan Island since 1974

Picture yourself walking in the footsteps of Homer, Hopper, Kent, Fitzgerald, or Wyeth... literally

Monhegan has no cars !

Then imagine being inspired not only by the beauty of Monhegan island, but also by having the key to unlock your creativity more effectively.
The plein air workshop on Monhegan is designed to help you hone your painting and creativity in ways unmatched by any other workshop.

This workshop is aimed at helping you see with ‘new eyes’ and translate your vision more effectively whether your skill level is advanced or beginner.
Here's your chance to stay and work on the magical, mystical island of Monhegan, long known for creative, spiritual and life altering forces with like minded individuals seeking the essence of oneness and serenity with nature. Experience the ancient romanticism long known to artists, poets, writers and musicians that is Monhegan, the island that time forgot...

Get in touch with your inner creative force in a reality most artists just dream about.

Imagine waking in the morning, looking out your door and everywhere you look is a painting waiting to happen. Paint en plein air in and around  Monhegan Island. Classes will concentrate on capturing the light and atmosphere on location. Emphasis on color temperature and grisaille to simplify outdoor painting. All levels accepted.
En plein air, you are immediately challenged to create a strong composition and get it down before the light changes. This gives you a window of approximately twenty five minutes before the lighting pattern begins to change.

Jacqueline believes the painting experience for her, would not be the same without the use of all five senses- to hear the wind and gulls, to smell and taste the sea air and feel the sun or rain- to truly connect to the spirit of the land. Being a plein air painter forces you to stop and "smell the roses".

Monhegan is wonderful for nature walks, hiking, birding, searching for fairy houses, watching performances in a one room schoolhouse, casual conversations with interesting characters, gourmet dinners, golden sun, panoramic views, silky fog, reading a favorite book near the oceans edge or catching some rays and a snooze (multi tasking), meeting a friend over a latte, sharing your day over dinner,and watching scarlet and cherry vanilla sunsets.
And painting....

Class is held around the village and small coves.
There is considerable walking required. Please let us know if you have physical limitations.
The village is small but,  there are no cars. The only vehicles on Monhegan are the Hotel trucks used for hauling and luggage. The island is 1/2 mi. wide by 1  1/2 mi. long. with 17 miles of trail.

Demonstrations capturing light patterns using grisalle and composition will be emphasized. Critiques will be held for personal growth. Personal critiques can be arranged for some of your current work. Days are spent painting in and around the island which boasts some of the most beautiful vistas , 600 species of wildflowers, 100 species of birds and at 165 feet, the highest headlands on the East Coast!

The workshop is very relaxed.
Why not treat yourself to a fun, learning holiday? 
Be sure to check out the accomodations and student  comments and photos page.
If you'd like more info on the island email me your address .

If you are a beginning painter or a studio painter, you are in for a great experience!
The island has two small stores for general merchandise, a library, 3 establishments for dining, 3 walk away food places, a church, a gallery that sells limited art supplies, a one room school house where community events are held, a light house and museum, a few small local craft shops and artist studios.
Should you be extending your stay, there are boats that do tours to other islands.
The island is basically rustic with most homes & cottages using kerosene lamps. 
This is a step back in time, the pace is simple and slow and very conducive to creating. Monhegan has been an artist colony for years and the level of art created on and about the island is phenomenal.
Supplies should be kept to a comfortable minimum. A complete list be be mailed upon registration.
You may choose to work in Oil, Acrylic or Pastel.

There is considerable walking involved - appropriate durable footwear is required.
Please inform us if you have physical limitations.

If you do not already have supplies for plein air painting, please check with us before you purchase them.
A painting umbrella is STRONGLY recommended.
On the accomodations page you will find a list of suggestions for lodging. Participants are responsible for their own accomodations - most find the Monhegan House charming. We suggest refundable reservations for any of your travel reservations.
The hotels fill quickly so please call them early. You will also find contacts for the ferry boat.


5 day workshop instruction and creative visualization sessions
classes  from 9:00 - 4:00 pm with morning or afternoon demos each day critques are held as time allows

Introductory price at $597.00 pp.
(workshop only - participants are responsible for their own accomodations)

We suggest refundable reservations for any of your travel reservations.

Balance is due 30 days before start of workshop.

Up to 45 days from the start of class, a full refund is given, minus $50.00 - we regret, less than 45 days from start of class, because of advance reservations, no refunds are available.

1 800 393-7270
Workshop Title : Problem solving  ‘on your feet’ en plein air painting & Creative Visualizations

Description :

5 day working on location workshop to help you achieve drama in your painting. Demo/lecture each morning.

You will learn to ‘bake the cake ‘ before you applying the frosting.

Wonder why your finished painting bears little resemblance to the excitement you felt when starting your painting ?

Students will should have 2  12x12 or smaller canvases to work on per day. Typical work day is 9 - 4pm


Creative Visualizations

Sessions incorporated during the workshop for Creative Visualizations. Re-enforce the body/mind connection and learn how your 'filters' work to your advantage.


Goals : Students at the end of a 5 day workshop will be able to recognize a strong composition and see values using grisaille.

This will enable them to make decisions when doing problem solving on their own, painting on location.

Grisaille studies, directly on canvas will enable students to commit to a composition and value plan instead

of constantly adjusting their values and shadows, commonly known as ‘chasing the light’.

This eliminates the also common fragmented, unfocused  painting.

Experience level : Beginner to Advanced

Prerequisite Student Skills:  It is suggested that beginners have the experience of at least one drawing course.

Students Supply their own Materials: The workshop is taught using a limited primary color palette. A complete list of suggested oil & acrylic pigments is mailed before the workshop. Canvas board or stretched canvas 12 x 12 or smaller.

A support for canvas and carrying materials. Incidental list also mailed.
A painting umbrella is strongly suggested. 

American Contemporary Plein Air Painter - 2011 thoughts

American Contemporary plein air painter.
Artworkshops in Fabulous locations !

No guarantees in life...
I take everything at face value...
I try not to have expectations...
I appreciate what is...at the moment.
I believe everything happens for a reason.
If things do not occur as I imagine, I look inward for the lesson I'm being shown...

Artworkshops in Fabulous locations !

American Contemporary Plein Air Painter

American Contemporary plein air painter.

Greetings!

You have previously expressed an interest in plein air painting workshops, either by email or as a past participant.

We'd like to keep you current on scheduled workshops to date.

Ever wonder how time gets away so quickly if you're trying to find time to paint, or even just some quality time for yourself ?

A book by Eckhart Tolle is all about the 'living in the now' concept, not waiting for more time, financial stability or better health. Because anything other than living in the now, is not really living. We all play roles in life and sometimes, those roles become bigger than life. Years ago, I began painting on the island of Monhegan - and through the years, my painting trips began to all center around painting on islands. It wasn't planned but, either I was drawn to them, or I was asked to do a workshop on one.

And the biggest magnet for me personally, was that on an island, I found it incredibly easy to 'live in the now'. No effort required - and if you add the element of painting en plein air, the process begs to be repeated and so, this 'draw' was a force that I listened to, before books such as, A New Earth, came into the mainstream.

You're invited to join me on this incredible journey...

www.jrbaldini.com

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Having wonderful weather - get out and paint !

All workshops including new locations San Miguel Allende and Taos HERE

Plein Air Painter- Last of the Summer Artworkshops

American Contemporary Plein Air Painter
Last of the Summer Art Workshops

More Information and latest newsletter HERE

Maine, Niagara Falls and Niagara on the Lake


Plein air painting workshops

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Plein Air Painting Monhegan Island

"Christmas Cove" Monhegan, Maine
12 x 12, Oil on Linen
www.jrbaldini.com

Participants painting near Lobstercove.

Limited color pallette.


Molly's first oil painting, done of course with M.Graham oil paints.
Almost everyone was using them and finding them extremely user friendly.
Great job, Molly !

See website for next Monhegan workshop

Plein air painting Monhegan Island

Monhegan Island artists painting on Swim Beach, July 2008. 1st day of workshop video clip.

Plein air painting workshop update

Plein air painting workshop last weekend update.

" Jacqueline - Thank you so much for the photo of Jeanne and me.
We both enjoyed the workshop so much. As my first experience with
plein aire painting, I really appreciated the opportunity to watch as you demonstrated establishing a value study and building up the painting with application of color from dark to light. I loved "in the moment"quality of painting outdoors, even when the wind was blowing my easel over!

Your input was always helpful and so encouraging.
I plan to continue my efforts at painting outdoors and
you can count on me being at one of your future workshops.

Thanks again." Karen Ketchum

Plein Air painting - Art workshops

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Feel free to pass on the info to an artist friend who may be interested.

Niagara this week.com - Art embraces special moments

Art embraces special moments, places in outdoors
"NiagaraThisWeek.com: Article: Art embraces special moments, places in outdoors";


By Doug Draper
Arts & Entertainment
Feb 08, 2008


This past Tuesday, on a damp, gray, foggy morning when many Niagara residents would probably prefer to spend a little more time in bed, Jacqueline Baldini was eager to head out to the countryside to capture the mood of the day on canvas.
"I am looking out there," said the Niagara artist at her studio on Lundy's Lane in Niagara Falls, "and going 'Wow, look at that.' "
Those "wow" moments, when Baldini is full of passion for the light and colour a day can bring -- regardless of the weather or the time of year -- has fueled her art for more than 30 years and has earned her the respect of other artists, nationally and internationally, for her ability to produce works embracing special moments and places in the outdoors.
"I don't want a perfect world," said Baldini in a studio with walls full of paintings of the Niagara Falls area, including the rapids of the famous river and its cataract, and of other regions of Niagara and the rest of the world, including Portugal, Spain, the Bahamas, Honduras and Yucatan.
"If all we had were all blue skies and sunshine, that would be boring."
Baldini is offering everyone from beginners to those will some experience in applying oil paints to canvas anything but a boring time at a workshop she is hosting at the Lundy's Lane studio this Sunday.
That workshop, called Day in an Artist's Studio, runs this Sunday, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with coffee and Danish treats in the morning, a lunch and all materials, including canvas and paints provided, for a fee of $65.
"I am asked frequently to do weekly lessons at my studio," Baldini said. "I made the decision a few years ago, that people learn and absorb much faster when completely immersed in a project."
As a host and mentor at the workshops, Baldini said she always finds them as rewarding as those who attend hopefully do. Often from someone who is just starting out in art, she said, she is reminded of the virtues of keeping things simple in some of her own work.
"I've had complete beginners in my classes," she said, "and I have learned from them."
Baldini's approach to art is something she said is described as "Plein Air Artist" or one who chooses to paint from life outdoors. "This often means painting in the fog, mist or frozen landscape of this beautiful peninsula," she explained. "Plein Air Painting is a metaphysical skill capable of creating an image that lets the viewer 'be there in the moment' when viewing the painting."
An upper New York State native before moving to Niagara Falls more than thirteen years ago, Baldini is the founder and signature member of International Plein Air Painters (an organization of artists dedicated to producing painting of moving outdoor settings around the world) and in 2002 established the first Worldwide Paint Out, that brings groups of artists together through the internet each year to share their work.
Her paintings hang in private and public collections across Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. To obtain more information on this Sunday's Day in an Artist's Studio Workshop or to register for the workshop no later than this Saturday, contact Jacqueline Baldini at her studio on 7973 Lundy's Lane in Niagara Falls at 905-354-8692 or visit her website at http://www.artworkshops.homestead.com/.

1 day Workshop - Give a gift of art for Valentines Day

1 Day in Studio Workshop

Intro to painting from Life

spend a relaxing, fun learning day in an Artist's studio

in beautiful Niagara Falls, CANADA

A great way to spend a cold wintry Sunday

with creative energy !

Why not share the day with a friend or give as a gift to your sweetheart ?

Nothing says you care more than giving someone the gift of 'time for themselves'

Sunday, February 10th.
Includes 9-5 workshop instruction

1 canvas

Use of oil paints and brushes

morning coffee

Light Lunch

only $65.00 per person
Go home with your finished original painting
Sign up with a friend and give yourself

the gift of time.
Studio location

7973 Lundy's Lane

Niagara Falls, Ontario
Adult or preapproved juvenile
Call 905.354.8692 to register

www.jrbaldini.com/

orwww.artworkshops.homestead.com/

to view paintings or see other workshops available.