Nita Harper: Plein Air Two-Day Workshop
Thu September 17, 2026 @ 8:30 am – Fri September 18, 2026 @ 8:30 am
Cost $250
Maximum of 12 / Minimum of 6 – Must have some experience. No beginners please.
Note: Two hour lunch break, workshop resumes 1:30pm, followed by a critique session.
For the workshop, participants will need the following:
- Pochade Box with tripod or plein air easel.
- Paint (Instructor will use oil, but you may use whatever medium you prefer.)
- This is a suggested limited palette, but it’s optional.
- Titanium White, Viridian, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Transparent Orange, Cadmium Lemon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Lamp Black (Optional), Radiant Violet (Gamblin, optional), Radiant Blue (Gamblin, optional)
- Solvent: For oil, Gamsol or Turpenoid fume free. Pour it into a small glass jar so it’s portable.
- Paper Towels and trash bag.
- Canvas painting panels (use boards, not stretched canvas) 11×14 or smaller for the workshop.
- Brushes- For our purposes, you should have both filberts and flats, palette knife optional
- Medium if you use it.
- Umbrella (Optional for Plein Air)
- Wet panel carrier. (Plein Air). If you do not have one, a small pizza box will work.
- Folding chair or stool.
Nita Harper is an award winning artist living in the desert of Southern California. The granddaughter of a professional artist who showed his work with painters like Edgar Payne, Victor Higgins and Walter Ufer, she was inspired at an early age, and has been painting most of her life. Moves from Illinois to Florida, Texas, and eventually California, exposed her to the country’s vast and varied landscape. Nita studied art with an emphasis in painting at Stephens College, the University of Arizona, and the Glassell School of Art, MFA, Houston. She also studied with several noted painters including Albert Handel, Frank Serrano, and the late Ann Templeton. She has been fortunate to travel to paint in Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon and other breathtaking locations.
Nita is particularly drawn to the vast, unspoiled lands of the American Southwest. Living in the desert gives her the opportunity to paint her favorite landscape during the winter months and work larger in the studio during the summer. She is a member of the PAC6, a group of six women artists who have committed themselves to painting adventures that follow in the footsteps of the early painters who travelled the west over a century ago. A painting trip on horseback into the Eastern Sierras was the trip of a lifetime. Nita believes that artists are the luckiest people in the world.
You can see more of her work at: www.nitaharperart.com
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