Let your creativity sparkle with the quiet reflection of
A Winter Interlude

Susan Nicholas Gephart & Kim Gates Flick team up to demonstrate:
“How to embrace those winter blues and enliven your palette!”
Hosted at The C. Barton McCann School of Art

This one-day workshop will explore oil and pastel media as related to topics of discussion including: Incorporating Studies, Sketches, & Snapshots, Technical Demonstrations, Composition Considerations, Materials & Products, Muse Motivators, End of Day, Group Critique

Don’t miss this first time opportunity to join us for a multi-sensory art experience at The C. Barton McCann School of Art, Petersburg, PA 16669.

Join painters Susan Nicholas Gephart and Kim Gates Flick in a high energy, positive atmosphere, one day workshop. You will learn ways to make connections with your individual inspirations in pastel or oil, and bring them full circle in a successful studio painting. Discover how to incorporate your plein air sketches, photos, studies, and personal palettes into a landscape studio work. With the beautiful winter studio views for inspiration, you will gather ideas, explore personal directions, paint creative discoveries, and return home with a wealth of knowledge and excitement.

9-12 Morning Session Brown Bag Lunch 1-4 Afternoon Session

Susan Nicholas Gephart, an award-winning painter, will share her “Tried and True Tips” from 30 years of “Plein Air” painting. Known for her rich atmospheric skies and expressive color use in pastel and oil, Susan organizes plein air artist retreats in Central PA and teaches for Rochester New York Art Supplies. She is also a prolific painter and product demonstrator for Gamblin Mediums, Radiant Colors, as well as Jack Richeson Art Supplies. Susan’s deep appreciation of the earth can be seen in her impressionistic pastels and oils. Teaching from her experience and love of color, you will learn how to capture the many moods of the winter landscape. She will demonstrate how to incorporate fresh vibrant colors into your personal landscape palette, using expressive brush work and the palette knife in oils. Susan will also demonstrate how to create an expressive and colorful under painting in pastels on a variety of surfaces. Artists of all levels will gain valuable experiences from Susan’s ability to work one on one, while encouraging individual painting time. Demonstrations, and product experimentation, will connect you to personal discoveries and the joys of painting. For more information about the workshop or on Susan Nicholas Gephart, please visit her website: www.snicholasart.com

Kim Gates Flick works with The C. Barton MCann School and will demonstrate oils and pastels. Kim Gates Flick brings intuitive process to traditional practice. With her creative spirit and free-style teaching approach, Kim is sure to help you awaken your inner creativity. A Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Art, a BFA in Painting & Drawing and a minor in Equine Science from Penn State, provide the “formal” foundation for her “informal” style. She currently teaches at Penn State for Outreach Programs and Continued Education

Registration by February 1st

Send $75 check/money order to:
The C. Barton McCann School of Art
4144 Miller Road, Petersburg, PA 16669

Artist Instructor Contacts:

Susan Nicholas Gephart snicholasart@aol.com
Kim Gates Flick kdf2@psu.edu

For more information
Contact Kathleen Davies ked220@comcast.net
http://www.mccannart.org/
814-667-2538

Exhibit Extended until December 28

Celebrate “Father and Daughter Landscape Passages”, and 25 years of painting together. Father, Tom Nicholas, and daughter, Susan Nicholas Gephart, have inspired each other as creative spirits for a lifetime. The exhibition will feature over 45 recent landscape paintings in oil and pastel, many created and framed for this showing in the lovely Millheim Valley. Don’t miss this beautiful ehibit in the unique setting of Elk Creek Cafe. You’ll be sure to find that special gift or simply enjoy the beauty of these two fine artists work. Be sure to call ahead for hours and special music events.

During the past 25 years, Susan has successfully raised three children, while simultaneously balancing an art career, teaching, and ongoing volunteer contributions to her community. Susan was inducted into the MCCC Alumni Hall of Fame in October, 2007.

In honor of her father, Susan kept his name in hopes of someday encouraging his artistic talent. In the mid ’80s, after Tom’s retirement from 43 years at Philadelphia Electric Company, they began to paint and exhibit together. Tom attributes his success to his background as a draftsman, years of self-study, and valuable advice in pastel painting and composition given by his daughter.

Recently, Tom Nicholas and Susan established “Nicholas Studios” in Bellefonte, PA. For information email Susan.

Location:
Elk Creek Cafe and Aleworks
100 West Main Street, Millheim PA
www.elkcreekcafe.net
814-349-8850

“Capture the Skies” Landscape Inspirations in Oil Painting
At Rochester Art Supply
Friday, April 4, and April 5, 2009 10 to 4:30PM

Instructor: Susan Nicholas Gephart

Discover how to incorporate your plein air sketches, photos, studies, and personal palettes into larger landscape studio works. Join this prolific painter in a high energy, positive atmosphere, two day workshop. Learn ways to make connections with your individual inspirations and bring them full circle in a successful studio painting. You will gather ideas, explore personal directions, paint creative discoveries, and return home with a wealth of knowledge and excitement.

Susan Nicholas Gephart, an award-winning painter, will travel to Rochester NY to share her “Tried and True Tips” from 30 years of “Plein Air” painting. Known for her rich atmospheric skies, Susan organizes plein air artist retreats in Central PA and is a product demonstrator for Gamblin Mediums and Radiant Colors. Susan’s deep appreciation of the earth can be seen in her colorful, impressionistic pastels and oils. Teaching from her experience and love of color, you will learn how to “Capture Skies” using samples of Gamblin’s Radiant colors. She will demonstrate how to incorporate the fresh vibrant colors into your personal landscape palette, using expressive brush work and the palette knife. You will also have an opportunity to explore Gamblin Mediums.

Artists of all levels will gain valuable experiences from Susan’s ability to work one on one, while encouraging individual painting time. Demonstrations, slide shows, and product experimentation, will connect you to personal discoveries and the joys of painting.

Cost: $220.00  For more information see www.snicholasart.com and go to the  ”Contacts Page” and  link to Rochester Fine Art Supply.