Saturday, August 15
9:30 am-11:00 am PST
10:30 am-12 pm MST
11:30 am-1 pm EST
12:30 -2 pm EST
4:30 pm GMT

*Zoom link and instructions will be sent out the day before the event. If you are unable to join live, you can still register and will be able to watch the recorded demonstration for 2 weeks. A link for the video will be emailed the day after the live demonstration.

Join Aimee Erickson from where ever you are in the world and travel to a secret location on the West Coast as she paints a portrait from life in natural light!

Aimee Erickson is an award winning artist from Portland, Oregon and is not only a fantastic painter but a natural teacher. Aimee will be sharing her process to find likeness and form from the live model. It will be a worthwhile experience to watch how she applies her confident brushstrokes and beautiful color that makes everything she paints sing with life!

Bio:

“Color has emotional weight and is related to the shape of space. Drawing or painting, for me, means to look at the thing and transmit its vitality to the canvas.”
Aimee Erickson is a representational oil painter. Born in Paris (1967) and raised in Sunnyvale, California, she started oil painting at the age of eight. After earning a BFA in Visual Communication Design/Illustration, she developed a warm, inviting pictorial voice grounded in traditional realism, informed by the principles of design, and inspired by nature and human experience. She has also studied with a number of prominent painters. Her approach to painting tends to be very direct and experimental, without a set routine, and leans toward the abstract; she uses brushes mostly, palette knives frequently, and sometimes a bigger scraper or straightedge. Aimee teaches painting, drawing, and color theory at venues nationwide and overseas. She has a particular interest in what enables or inhibits artistic progress. How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see? How does expectation influence our ability to perceive? One of the winningest painters in the plein air world, Aimee took home Best of Show and Artists' Choice at Plein Air Easton in 2019; she has also won Best of Show at Laguna, Olmsted, Carmel, Sonoma, and Pacific Northwest Plein Air. She was a finalist at the Portrait Society of America, is a signature member with multiple awards from Oil Painters of America, and won Best of Show at an American Women Artists national show. In 1997 she painted the official gubernatorial portrait of Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts. She has travelled to China and Russia to paint and is an inaugural member of En Train Air. Aimee lives in Portland, Oregon, and carries a sketchbook.