Hope Ricciardi: Onsite Oil Painting!
Sun September 21, 2025 @ 8:00 am – Mon September 22, 2025 @ 8:00 am
Cost $250
Maximum of 12 / Minimum of 6 – All ability levels; please have some familiarity with your equipment and medium
This will be a two-day workshop, meeting early morning and continuing until sunset, with midday lunch breaks. The group will discuss times and locations on the first morning. All levels are welcome. Please have some familiarity with your equipment and medium.
Hope works with oil paints, but has experience in water mixable oils and acrylics. She will email a suggested materials list to enrolled artists before the class. We will begin each morning with a short demonstration by Hope, then class members will set up to paint, receiving feedback throughout the day. We will be driving to painting locations, so transportation is required, however we may carpool when possible to reduce the number of parked vehicles.
Hope’s current plein air work is inspired by Southwest landscapes. Her impressionist style is in oils on canvas or panels with an emphasis on the extraordinary energy and light of the Red Rocks, Grand Canyon and Utah. In 2023, Hope participated in the Escalante Canyons Art Festival, winning the Plein Air Purchase Award for her painting First Impression. After 40+ years of teaching in Boston, Hope is now settled in Sedona, AZ.
Hope holds a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University and has received awards from The Escalante Canyons Art Festival, The Tubac Art Center and several competitions in New York and Boston. In 2024, Hope demonstrated plein air oil painting for Arizona Plein Air Painters and Escalante Canyons Art Festival. She is currently represented at Sedona Artist Market & Gallery, West Sedona, Arizona, where she teaches and exhibits her work.
You can see more of her work at: www.hopemricciardi.com
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