Painting & Monoprinting Urban Scenes– Lisbeth Firmin

Five-day workshop
limited to 8 participants
June 25 - 29, 2008
Tuition: $700
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Bellows Falls with its historic buildings and bridges is the perfect setting for this workshop. In this unusually structured class, students will have the dual experience of painting plein air and making monotypes. The first two days will be spent painting outdoors producing several streetscapes, using big brushes and working with large blocks of color, with a painting demonstration to start. For the remaining three days students will be in the print studio, where Lisbeth will demonstrate her deductive monotype technique. Using their paintings as subject matter for their prints, students will experiment with this technique. This will be an intensive 5-day workshop for both the beginner as well as the advanced art student and this highly creative environment promotes exploring unexpected directions. Students will produce many exciting paintings and monotypes.

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Lisbeth Firmin is a full-time painter/printmaker working within a long tradition of figurative American realism and impressionism. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions across the country and internationally. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, including: the Vermont Studio School, the MacDowell Colony, Saltonstall Arts Colony, and the National Seashore Residency Program. As a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Press, she worked with Master Printer Sarah Amos. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and was awarded the CCVA prize at the 46th National Exhibition of American Art, in 2003.