You paint for four hours. You take a four hour break. Then you paint for four more.

It makes perfect sense. The first four hours, starting at 8 a.m., give you the morning sun. The next four give you time to do whatever—shop, hit the beach, grab a bite—even sketch if you’re insatiable. The last four, starting at 4 p.m., give you that amazing late afternoon light.

Where this happens is as important as how it happens. You’ll be in Lewes (pronounced Lewis) Delaware, the first town in the first state, which dates from the 1600s. Specifically, you’ll be at Virden Center, part of the University of Delaware.

You can paint everything you see. Class is held right across from the Coast Guard station, an eminently paintable structure. You’ll be on the Delaware Bay where it reaches out to the Atlantic. Turn around and you’re painting marshland. Lewes’ main drag (two streets) offers historical log cabins and other buildings, including one with a cannonball stuck in its wall. Paint it with or without.

Outside of Lewes, there’s a canal and a bridge to the beach. And then there’s Cape Henlopen State Park with its wildlife, salt marsh, hiking trails and 100-foot-high dunes. Yes, we paint there, too.

For more information or to register, call 215-7176098.

ED 7780D
Landscape Painting: Lewes, Delaware
Place, scale, light and the balance of man and nature are the ingredients of expressing the environment through oils, acrylics or pastels. Topics include proper grounds (surfaces) for oil paint, materials, mediums, and techniques for efficient use of time; how to use a loose drawing to form a strong composition; making color studies; choosing a location; reading the weather and the light, and color mixing for landscape. All course content will be directly applicable to classroom instruction and curriculum. Course material list will be sent to all participants.

Prerequisite:
Experience in basic drawing and painting.
Instructor: Joe Sweeney
3 credits, $655
Monday—Friday, July 11-15

Lodging Information:
UArts has reserved a block of single and double occupancy rooms at the Virden Center at the University of Delaware, Lewes campus. Call 302-645-4100 to make your reservation.

Register now with a $50 deposit