Take Your Paintings to the Next Level

with AIS Master Dawn Whitelaw

Cost: $475 for AIS members, $525 non-members (max of 12 students)

Location: Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI

The process of improving your work is one of the great joys of painting. However, it is easy to get stalled along this journey. Sometimes we need a little kick-start and the benefit of a new set of eyes, to get back on the path of growth. This class is an opportunity to take a good, honest look at your current work and consider what most needs improvement. Is the area that needs tweaking related to handling the paint?... or is it design, color, value, edges, or concept?

The classroom work is divided in to three parts

1. Identification of the area to work on

2. Individualized exercises

3. Studio painting to put new ideas into practice

*Peninsula School has easels and taborets that are available for use for any artist who would like to use them.

For the six weeks following the workshop, you will have the opportunity to continue your learning experience through an online mentorship. There is no additional fee for the online portion of the class.

Come enjoy the process of digging deep and seeing results. The workshop is best suited to intermediate and advanced painters who have a working knowledge of their chosen medium.

Taste of Door County Breakfast, Gallery Crawl and Art Scavenger Hunt

Sponsored by PleinAir Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur

As you delight in the spectacular fall landscape of Door County …

8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. - Enjoy a complimentary mouth-watering Door County breakfast at Peninsula School of Art. Meet in the Gazebo. 

10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - Embark on an enthralling self-guided gallery tour through Door County’s quaint villages. Along the way, involve yourself in a fun, Art Scavenger Hunt. (Prizes may be your reward.)

Please join us for the opening reception and awards presentation for the 19th Annual AIS National Juried Exhibition. This event is free and open to the public. Awards presentation will be held at approximately 6:45pm. Refreshments will be served. 

This is always our most popular education event of each exhibition. A variety of topics will be discussed, from business and record keeping, to galleries and career advice, to trying to answer question "What is Impressionism?"...so be sure to register early! Panelists will include AIS Signature members Shelby Keefe, Cindy Baron, Bill Davidson and AIS Master Dawn Whitelaw. Moderated by AIS CEO/President Debra Joy Groesser

Presented by Jaclyn Mednicov, artist representative for Gamblin Artist Oils. 

For 600 years, oil painting has been the preeminent medium of visual expression. There is nothing more natural or enduring than oil painting. No other painting media holds the same raw power of communication, pigment load and artistic possibility. Painters today are interested in knowing where their materials are from and in making the right choices for their work, their own well-being and the environment.

The landscape of oil painting changed significantly during the 20th century – painters’ color palette was expanded with the development of modern organic pigments and the oil painting process has become safer, primarily through our work to develop contemporary mediums, solvents and varnishes.

Still, artists today are moving toward water-based painting media because of assumed attitudes and misconceptions in regards to personal and environmental safety. This presentation explores the nature of oil painting – from the field to the palette – in order to create permanent paintings while at the same time protecting ourselves and the environment.

A Lineage Of Color

Kami Mendlik is an oil painter and founder of the St Croix River School of Painting in Stillwater, Minnesota, where she teaches the fundamentals of representational painting with a special emphasis on color.

Kami Mendlik will outline the artistic lineage of color that began by the French Impressionists and still influences the modern painting world today.  Through a slide show presentation, she will visually walk you through how the French Impressionist’s movement in color has rippled through and influenced to today. 

Group painting demonstrations featuring AIS Signature members Shelby Keefe (oil), Bill Davidson (oil) and Cindy Baron (watercolor). You will be able to walk around and visit with the artists as they paint. This is always a popular event...you won't want to miss it!

Join us for a two hour painting demonstration by AIS Master and Judge of Awards, Dawn Whitelaw. This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs appreciated.

All Member Paintout open to all AIS Members! Includes breakfast, lunch and closing party sponsored by Southwest Art Magazine.

We will have a model (9:00am to 12:30pm) and still life set ups indoors at the Peninsula School of Art, 3900 County Road F, Fish Creek WI, and for those who would like to paint outdoors "en plein air," we will also be painting in nearby Clark Park, downtown Fish Creek and the surrounding area. 

Check in at the Peninsula School of Art's gazebo beginning at 8:00am to get your canvases/substrates stamped, pick up a map of painting locations, sign a waiver and enjoy a light breakfast sponsored by Southwest Art Magazine. 

If you plan to enter the Wet Room Competition, each member may turn in one painting on Saturday afternoon by 2:30pm at Peninsula School of Art. Your painting will need to be displayed on your easel/pochade and does not need to be framed. Wet Room Show and Sale will run from 4 to 6pm. Awards will be presented for Best of Show, 2nd and 3rd place!

Lunch, provided courtesy of Southwest Art Magazine, will be served at 1:30pm at the Peninsula School of Art's gazebo. A farewell cocktail party for AIS members and a guest, also sponsored by Southwest Art, will follow the Wet Room sale, from 6 to 7pm. 

Artists will take unsold work with them after the sale ends at 6pm or after the cocktail party at 7pm.