New Hampshire 2024

THREE-DAY WORKSHOP: SMALL FORMAT LANDSCAPE PAINTING and DRAWING

October 4, 5, 6 2024

FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

9:30am – 4:30pm daily

$525

Grounding Stone Farm: organic blueberry farm and artist retreat.

289 Maple Street, Contoocook, NH

Painting and sketching outside you will investigate the natural landscape to develop your observational skills. Drawing and painting exercises will be given to help students understand the distinctive shapes and colors that exist in the natural world. Thumbnail sketches will help you to understand a simplified sense of space and composition, without an over analysis of detail. Individual attention will be given to each participant, along with a group lecture about historical and contemporary artists that are inspired by nature. Includes painting demonstrations, group discussions and blueberry scones served each morning with coffee!


EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Some experience painting, creative practice and/or making art helpful. Perfect for all artists who need a jump start, need to be around other artists and have a love of nature. This workshop will help feed your creative life.
Materials are not provided but a list will be provided. Small table, chairs, portable easles available. Tents for working out of the sun and/or rain will be available.

Go to www.groundingstonefarm.com or call 413.563.5912 

Cancellation Policy: If a workshop is cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, students will be notified ahead of the start date and will get a full refund. Payment is due upon registration. A full refund, less a cancellation fee of 10% of the cost of the class, will be given to students who withdraw from a class at least 20 days before it begins. No portion of the tuition will be refunded within 20 days of class or workshop start date. Notification of withdrawal must be made in writing to Kathleen Dunn Jacobs.

2025

IRELAND, COUNTY MAYO

Ireland Painting Workshop And Tour Led By Kathleen Jacobs

May 28-Jun 7 2025

  • The focus will be the art and culture of Western Ireland.

    • • Sign up early for reduced rate on the first five single rooms!!!

  • Nine days with Kathleen Jacobs your artistic instructor and Cormac Cullen your personal local Irish guide.
  • Tour limited to 12 passengers.
  • Experience Ireland with majority of evenings in one hotel, all en-suite accommodations, and water view rooms.
  • Relaxed & flexible itinerary.
  • Impromptu visits with local artists.

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Your home away from home is a lovely hotel on the Quay (harbor) of Westport, County Mayo. Not far from the quaint town center, with its many shops and pubs. 

There is a pool and optional spa facilities are available.

Join artist and painting instructor Kathleen Jacobs for a painting workshop excursion to County Mayo, Ireland! Your group will have your own personal local Irish guide, Cormac Cullen, based in Westport, Ireland. You will be taken to the beautiful countryside to explore this ancient and mythical country. There are spectacular monastic and megalithic ruins to seek out in your daily adventures. Return to your lovely hotel after painting all day to dine, converse and mingle with fellow artists. You can also partake in evenings listening to Irish musicians play traditional music in the local pubs. Depending on their schedule, a tour may be provided at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, located in Ballycastle. The attendees loved the visit with them last year.


We invite you to immerse yourself in an enriching and creative experience that will expand your painting practice and experience. Students of beginner, intermediate to advanced levels are welcome, open to all painters using oil, watercolor, acrylic or gouache.

Kathleen Jacobs will provide individualized instruction during plein air excursions, demonstrations, discussions and presentations that will provide the format for an intensive exciting learning experience. The focus is on the landscape of County Mayo, where you will experience first-hand the beauty and richness of Ireland. Jacobs will emphasize the importance of drawing and composition as a foundation of a painting. Working small, participants will work to create work with a spirit of place. Her teaching emphasizes looking at the landscape and to understand the formal elements of painting, shape, color, space, form while responding to the grace, order and beauty that is in front of you. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and to discuss other international painters throughout history to enrich our experience in Ireland.

Italy Painting Tour Of Tuscan Hill Towns

October 8-17, 2025

9 days

  • Plein Air Small Format Landscape Drawing and Painting workshop with Professional Tour Leader Kathleen Jacobs
  • Seven evenings in the Tuscan countryside, with grapevines and cypress trees
  • Tuscany’s medieval towns and villages: San Gimignano, San Donato, Greve in Chianti, and others, equally well-preserved
  • Departure limited to 12 participants to optimize your artistic experience


In this class students will start with intuitive sketches of the natural hills, trees and foliage of the Italian landscape. Students look carefully to make pencil compositional studies to settle into the view of such a special place. Working in any painting medium, students will make small intimate paintings in one sitting. Like Corot, students will look to investigate composition, using form, shape, line, and color while working in nature. Emphasis will be placed on capturing the feeling of the landscape, without over analysis. We will use the historic color paint palette of Corot to express emotion.

Kathleen Jacobs will provide individualized instruction during plein air excursions, demonstrations, discussions, and presentations that will provide the format for an intensive exciting learning experience. Working small, participants will work to create work with a spirit of place. Her teaching emphasizes looking at the landscape and to understand the formal elements of painting, shape, color, space, form while responding to the grace, order and beauty that is in front of you. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and to discuss other international painters throughout history to enrich our experience in Italy.


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