Instructor: Dan Schultz
Medium: Oil Painting (Plein Air)
Dates: Sept 18–20, 2026
Class times: 9:00–4:00
Tuition: $595
Class Size: 16
Explore how painting in a high-key color range can bring more creativity into your plein air work. It can help you transform landscapes with overcast lighting or otherwise uninspiring colors into more exciting paintings. Dan will expand your understanding of value contrast with the possibilities allowed by color contrast. Discover how to recognize naturally high-key scenes and use your creativity to push dark colors in light-filled directions instead of just copying what you see in the landscape. Add a new dimension to your color understanding!
In this 3-day oil workshop, Dan will share his in-depth understanding of color, and will how how you can achieve better color comparison and control in your palette mixtures. He will also review the other fundamental principles of painting: design, drawing accuracy, value, edges and texture. Dan will demonstrate his techniques on location each morning, and then provide hands-on help for students as they practice these concepts in their own paintings.
Dan’s workshops are always encouraging, informative, and lots of fun.
BIO
California-based artist Dan Schultz has regularly taught painting workshops since 2002 and painted full time since 2005. With a background in commercial art, he has taken influence from many of the golden-age illustrators as well as from classical realism and California impressionism. He believes that beauty is of great importance to the human soul and that God uses the beauty of his creation to communicate with humanity. Artists Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine have published feature articles about his work and he has received awards from American Impressionist Society, Art Renewal Center, California Art Club, Oil
Painters of America, Plein Air Salon, and Portrait Society of America. Viewers often comment on the strong sense of light and atmosphere in his work, as well as the beauty of his subtle color changes which become apparent upon closer inspection.
