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PLEIN AIR WITH LINA FERRARA

  • Hershey Area Art Association PO Box 654 Hershey, PA 17033-654 USA (map)

Wednesday, July 19th

9am - 4pm (break for one hour for lunch)

$95.00 Member……$110.00 Non-member

Location is the Hershey History Center, 40 Northeast Drive, Hershey, PA 17033

Concept presentation in the morning (indoors) followed by a quick demo of my process in the field. The rest of the day is for student painting with feedback.

Learn to capture the landscape in front of you. This class offers a step by step method to tackle the challenge of painting outside.

• Discover how to edit complex scenes, and how to train your eye to help you create

atmosphere in a three-dimensional painting.

• See how to create useful thumbnail sketches that speed up the painting process and help to

explore composition alternatives.

• Learn to see the quality of light and shadow.

All levels are welcome. This class will enhance the skill of the experienced artist as well as give confidence to the new painter. Do not feel intimidated if you're a beginner or if it's been a while since you've painted outdoors. Lina will be doing demos and give instruction on the basics. Open to any painting medium.


Please make checks payable to Hershey Area Art Association (HAAA) and mail to:

PO Box 654, Hershey, PA 17033

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Supplies:

Suggested colors:

Titanium White


Cad Yellow Medium (Azo Yellow is a less expensive alternative) Cad Red Medium (Napthol Red is a less expensive alternative) Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue


Yellow Ochre

Transparent Red Oxide (Burnt Sienna could be substituted; however, it is not transparent and the color isn't as rich or clear

Manganese or Cerulean Blue

Sap Green

Brushes: Good quality brushes for your medium These are my absolute favorites but not required:

Silver Brush LTD

Ruby Satin Series 2503 filberts size: 2, 4

Silverstone Series 1101 or Grand Prix Series 1001 size 8 (Silver Stone is less expensive than Grand Prix)

Golden Natural Series 2000S liner size 2

Stretched Canvas or Canvas panels. I like to tone my canvas with a thinned coat of bright yellow. Oil paint is ideal (for oil painters) but acrylic works. However, feel free to use whatever color suits you.

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Bio

Lina Ferrara has a bachelor’s degree from PSU and has pursued post graduate study in art history and Italian at Bucknell University. During one of several visits to Florence, she studied gilding and furniture painting in the grotessca style popularized by Raphael.

She says this of her work “ I record in paint what is magnificent to me — the everyday insignificant detail of a thing. Light transfigures the mundane into the sublime and it is a tool that is every bit as important as my pigments and brushes. Light reveals the rich radiance of a color that sings soprano”

Her paintings are held in private collections in the U.S., Italy, Holland and Germany, and include artworks in the White House, the Library of Congress and Woodmode Industries in Kramer, PA.

Currently she serves as artist in residence at Allenberry Resort in Boiling Springs, PA

A popular workshop instructor, Lina has extensive experience having taught in such varied places as Canada, Italy, Holland, and most states in the U.S. She leads painting retreats to the Amalfi Coast, Italy.

Earlier Event: July 13
WATER MEDIA WITH MARIE GAMON