Lafayette Square Plein Air Workshop
A Practical, Interactive “How-To” Plein Air Workshop for all Levels.
"Tips & Techniques" discussion followed by
hands-on workshop.
Come prepared to paint.
A trained studio painter turned Plein Air painter shares practical preparation tips for adapting to the great outdoors. Techniques will be shared that will help you maximize your outdoor painting experience. A demonstration will
be provided with helpful approaches to planning and capturing the light
before it shifts.
Hands-on work shop will focus on methods that prevent “painting yourself into a corner”. Workshop will cover: Composition, color mixing and applications of paint to keep your painting fresh. Focus and demonstration
will be in oils but relevant to other mediums.
MAXIUM: 15
Registrants receive a Plein Air survival and materials list.
Call or emailed questions welcome before and after the workshop.
INSTRUCTOR: Allen Kriegshauser, Best of Show Winner: 2006 Lafayette Plein Air Event
FEE: $35.00
TIME & PLACE: 9:30 AM – 1 PM Sunday, May 20, 2007
Lafayette Square Park, at the covered bandstand, corner of Lafayette & Mississippi Avenues
HOW TO SIGN UP: Contact Allen Kriegshauser directly to register for his Tips & Techniques Workshop.
Mobile: 314-965-2771
Email: aakriegs@aol.com
Allen Kriegshauser
A St. Louis native and son of an architect/watercolorist, I graduated from Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) with a major in painting. The KCAI painting department was strongly grounded in impressionist sensibilities. My training at KCAI was in traditional oils with strong emphasis in drawing and composition.
I’ve since lived in Chicago, Los Angeles and Petaluma, CA. During frequent business travels I continued to pursue drawing and painting. I shifted my concentration from oils to watercolors for portability.
Since returning to St. Louis, I have concentrated on re-establishing myself in oils. I discovered the Missouri Plein Air Painters Association (MOPAPA) in 2002. I have since painted with this group on a regular basis. The MOPAPA has provided a stimulating environment and resource of talented artists with diverse approaches to painting.
I have a broad range of painters I look to for inspiration: Renaissance Flemish painters for their solidly drawn images created with pure use of color and their theatrical composed figures as well as the work of John Singer Sargent. Sargent seamlessly transitions from oils to loosely brush stroked watercolors, always applying strong composition, drawing and color to create light.
1974 2nd place, Bohan figure drawing competition, Kansas City, MO
1974 One man show figure drawing at the University of Missouri Columbia, MO
2003 Honorable mention oils, Augusta Plein Air Event, Augusta, MO
2004 “Missouri Landscapes” Group show with the Missouri Plein Air Painters Assoc. Componere Gallery, University City, MO
2004 Best of Show and 1st place oils, Augusta Plein Air Event, Augusta, MO
2005 Workshop: composition, Augusta Plein Air Event, Augusta, MO
2005 2 Honorable mentions, oils, Augusta Plein Air Event, Augusta, MO
2005 Group show: Billyo & the Missouri Plein Air Painters Assoc., Schmidt Gallery, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
2006 Workshop: Drawing, Augusta Plein Air Event, Augusta, MO
2006 1st place oils, Augusta Plein Air Event, Augusta, MO
2006 Best of Show and 1st place oils, Lafayette Square Plein Air Event, St. Louis, MO.
