Paint a Bold, Colorful Landscape, with Joe A. Oakes
January 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Community Resource Center (at The Mall)
587 Palm Canyon Dr
Borrego Springs, CA 92004
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Member: $175
Non-member: $190
Join award-winning artist, Joe A. Oakes, for a fun, info-packed, painting experience.
Paint a landscape using bright, bold, unexpected color!
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Learn to take an ordinary image and transform it into an extraordinary finished piece.
Valuable art principles and important acrylic painting techniques will be discussed while we work through and complete a finished piece. This workshop will help experienced artists grow and beginners be inspired. All painting styles and skill levels are welcome. Also open to oil and pastel painters.
- Color choices for impact
- Composition, color, value, techniques
- Structured but light and fun
- Each student will create a finished painting
- Download Materials List
Joe A. Oakes was a curious and observant child that began drawing at age five. He’s been painting full time since 2008 and like other artists, had many previous occupations including, substitute teacher, art consultant and graphic designer.Oakes has survived cancer and the loss of a child and used these life changing events to propel his art career forward. His landscapes burn with the first brilliant seconds of sunrise and the last fiery moments of sunset. Expressing those feelings through the use of bold, vibrant highlights and shadows of violet hues is his signature. His work offers a meditative sense of calm and happiness, with a profound reverence for the mountains, canyons and valleys of the West and Southwest. Oakes holds a BFA from CSU, Fullerton and his awards include: Third Place, “Sears Invitational”, Utah Tech, 2024, Best in Show, “Nature of Color Show” Art Brut 27, 2020, First Place, “Visions”, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA, 2019. His work has been included in “ArtsThrive”, Albuquerque Museum, NM, 2023, “Slowpoke Western Art Show”, Solvang, CA, 2022, “Shock of the New West”, Tubac Center for the Arts, AZ and recently appeared in International Artist Magazine, Issue 152, August/September, 2023. Oakes resides near Palm Springs, California.
