Plein-Air / Outdoor Landscape Painting with Charles Philip Brooks

Students will paint landscape or seascape subjects on location in oils, carefully studying light, color, form, and atmosphere. Impressionist and Tonalist oil painting techniques will be addressed. Beginners are more than welcome. Oil paints are much preferred.
Brooks is one of the most sought-after Contemporary Tonalist painters working in America today,

Charles Philip Brooks is an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher. With twelve years of experience and dozens of exhibitions to his credit, he paints the evocative landscape with sincerity and strength. He has conducted painting workshops in cooperation with many noteworthy institutions, including the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 1212 Gallery, and the Columbia Museum of Art. As Artist in Residence at the Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences, he conducts a full-time atelier-style teaching studio.

Born in North Carolina, Charles Philip Brooks studied in New England in the studio of highly respected Boston School authority Paul Ingbretson and with the renowned American Barbizon painter Dennis Sheehan. He is primarily a landscape painter, focusing on the landscape of the southeastern United States. His work incorporates elements of impressionism and is firmly rooted in the American Barbizon / Tonalist tradition of landscape painting. He works out of the tradition established by such artists as George Inness, Alexander Wyant, Bruce Crane, John Francis Murphy, Dwight William Tryon, and North Carolina's own Elliott Daingerfield. Further influences include the painters Eugene Boudin and Charles Francois Daubigny, as well as the many other masters of the French Barbizon School.