The California City Arts Commission is very excited to be hosting accomplished plein air painter Rich Gallego for an in-depth workshop on August 19 from noon to 3 p.m.
The basics of plein air painting, packing your materials, composition, and much more will be the topics under consideration during Rich Gallego’s upcoming workshop at the California City Arts and Community Building in California City.
“Gallego has been painting landscape since 1996. His longtime love of nature’s wild places has taken him far afield, from Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly to the beaches of Hawaii,” says Susanna Monette, contributing writer for the Tehachapi News. “From the rivers, gorges, and adobes of northern New Mexico to the glaciers of Alaska and so many places in between, all in search of the scenes he loves to paint. Referring to his obsession with painting as ‘my magnificent affliction,’ he is constantly searching for new ways to reveal the natural world to others through paint.
“He teaches weekly plein air workshops in southern California, annual plein air painting workshops for Cloudcroft Art Workshops in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, and each year for the past eight, he has taught week-long workshops for the Taos Art School in New Mexico. He is a member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters’ Association and was juried into their Best of Plein Air show in 2015 and 2016.”
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