Painting the Dynamic Landscape
Dates: 10/9/2010 - 10/16/2010
Location: Tuscan Renaissance Center
Instructor: Julie Houck
Price: $2,495 
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Julie Houck
Classically, trained, Julie has been teaching art for over 25 years. Julie studied with contemporary realist painters who based their instruction on the classical principles of directly observing color, light and form relationships in nature. She studied at the Academy of Art and the Atelier of Classical Realism in San Francisco, the Academy of Fine Art in Seattle with Anthony Ryder, and in France, at L’Ecole Albert Defois with Ted Seth Jacobs. Julie studied painting en plein air with Kevin MacPherson, Don Demers and Kim English.
In my work, I aspire to capture that “something else” about a place, and to recreate the feeling of “being there.” Atmosphere, emotion and the transmission of light fascinate me. It goes beyond mere rendering into seeing beyond the outline into a scene’s essence.
It is not enough to merely paint the literal view. One needs to bring out the spirit that lies within. It is this emotionality that I am after. The painting must connect you to the place in the way words cannot. If I can make you feel this emotionality, then I have succeeded.”
Julie has been recently acknowledged for her significant work by the Florence Biennale, and been honored as a Signature painter of the Plein Air Painters of Hawaii and the International Plein Air Painters. Her work is on tour with Far and Near Horizons, a world tour of international landscape painters. Julie was recently featured in International Artist and Southwest Art Magazines. Her work is found in galleries in Hawaii, the US mainland and in collections worldwide.
For more information and samples of her work, visit Julie`s web site at: www.juliehouck.com