Fee: $400
Non-Refundable fee after September 30th
If the class is full you can email:
lindamarymasten@gmail.com to be put on the waiting list
Class Description:
The class will focus on the life giving element of water and how such a force can be used successfully in a realistic landscape painting. Three aspects of water in the landscape will be the focus of the class; still water, gently moving water and the movement of a larger body of water such as a large lake or the ocean.
Each day will present a new subject. The instructor will give step-by-step instructions and demonstrations on each aspect in this highly focused class.Elements of each will include achieving reflective surfaces, the steps to achieve the look of gently moving water, the aspect of capturing a wave and the motion of the sea. This class will focus on small studies, not on finished works and will be held entirely in the studio.
All levels are encouraged
The participants will need to furnish their own easels. A table easel can be used or any other portable, but sturdy, easel is great for indoor class work. Handouts and photo references will be provided at class.
the landscape.
Oil Painting Landscape Workshop with Andrew Orr - award winning artist
November 20, 21 and 22, 2026 from 9 am to 4 pm
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from Vermont’s own Award Winning Artist.
Andrew’s workshop will be limited to only 10 students in order to offer a more personal experience.
Suggested Supply List:
Paints: (Please choose artist quality pigments)
Alizarin Crimson
Cad Red Medium
Cad Red Orange
Cad Yellow Medium or Hansa Yellow Dark
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Viridian or Phthalo Green
Titanium White or Flake White. I would suggest staying away from Premalba White as the drying time is simply too long.
Underpainting White, Winsor and Newton-this is an extremely fast drying white which is great for building textures and is generally available from Jerry’s Artarama or other online art supply houses. If you cannot get this, you might want to have some Titanium White in alkyd. Again, fast drying, not as quick as Underpainting White. The Winsor and Newton Underpainting White does have a strong odor.
Earth Tones:
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Raw Umber
Ivory Black
Other colors at student's choice
Miscellaneous:
Odorless Mineral Spirits
Liquin or any other drying painting medium such as Japan Dryer or alkyd medium
Brushes, 10, 7, 5, 3, 2, 1. I tend to use flats, but also have an assortment of rounds that I am using more and more. I tend to use bristle brushes and move to sables or similar for finishing touches.
Palette or palette paper pad
Palette Knife, metal with two inch slightly flexible blade. A plastic palette knife will not work for one of our exercises
Paper Towels
Bag for rubbish
Sketchbook, sketching pencils, eraser
Masking tape
Canvas:
3- 9 x 12 smooth, gesso masonite panels, I would also have an 8 x 10 or even a 12 x 16 for extra work as needed. A smooth surface works best. You can also tape canvas (portrait smooth) to a board or other hard surface, which can then be mounted later.
Biography - Andrew Orr b. 1969
Beginning his artistic endeavors at an early age, Andrew Orr received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music after which he began his studies in art with courses at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico with impressionist Carol McIlroy, David P. Curtis and Joseph McGurl. Orr’s work has shown in many locations in the United States, has won awards with National juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America, the Salmagundi Club, the American Artist’s Professional League and the Guild of Boston Artists. His work has been featured in several one-person exhibitions.
An elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists, Andrew Orr’s awards include the Alden Bryan Prize awarded by the Guild and the Alden Bryan Medal through Bryan Memorial Gallery, Vermont. Additional awards include the Barbara Carter Award for Excellence from the Oil Painters of America, he is three times the winner of the Arthur T Hill Award for a Landscape from the Salmagundi Club, the Claude Parsons Award for a Landscape and the Helen DeCozen Award for a floral, both from the American Artists Professional League. He is the recipient of the Charles Movalli Medal for Excellence in Painting. Orr received recognition with his work winning First Place Overall with Plein Air Magazine’s, Plein Air Salon monthly competition March 2021. An award winner with regional Plein Air events, Andrew received Best in Show with Plein Air Vermont, 2012 awarded by M. Stephen Doherty, editor, Plein Air Magazine. His work was selected as a finalist as part of Art Renewal Center’s International Salon and a feature story about his work appeared in the 2013 April-May Issue of Plein Air Magazine and in August, 2015, American Art Review. In 2019 he was listed as An Artist to Watch by the publication, Vermont Art Guide.
Andrew has conducted classes for almost twenty years in a variety of mediums from watercolor, over glaze on porcelain and now, exclusively, oil painting. His teaching has allowed him to travel and conduct classes in 38 of 50 states, locations in Vermont, Australia, New Zealand and multiple times in Great Britain.
Orr makes his home on the northern border of Vermont surrounded by fields, forests which often make up the subjects of his paintings. When he is not working in his studio, a converted horse barn, he is often found tending the vegetable garden enjoying all the elements a bucolic life in Vermont has to offer.