Plein Air Workshop with Toni Williams
March 6, 2025 - March 8, 2025
Yellow Woman Ranch
302 Palm Canyon Dr
Borrego Springs, CA. 92004
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Member: $300
Non-member $325
Able painters familiar with the plein air technique of outdoor painting using oil paints will have the opportunity to learn firsthand from one of its most talented artists. Toni Williams will guide you through the plein air experience as only a master of the canvas can do.
You will be expected to have appropriate equipment and be fully contained and mobile. Please bring water, sunscreen, and a hat. We will focus on the technique of spots and shapes with their relationships to each other rather than linear painting.
You will also learn about the most important points of painting:
- Planning!!!
- Composition, Design, and Focal Point
- Lay in (Block in) (Road Map)
- Values/Colors
- SQUINT
- Lost Edges
Agenda
March 6
- Demo, instruction, and intension
- Paint on location
March 7
- Paint on location
March 8
- Paint on location
- Critique session
Toni Williams has been a professional artist and muralist for over 20 years. She is a member of the Rancho Santa Fe Art Guild, San Dieguito Art Guild, and a Signature Member of the American Impressionists Society. She is represented by the historical Marston House Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, with fellow artists in the permanent collection. 
A native of New York, Toni moved to San Diego in 1972 to finish her education at UCSD in La Jolla with a Bachelor of Visual Arts. Captivated by the arid and temperate climate of Southern California, Toni’s work has been influenced by the great local plein air artists of San Diego at the turn of the century, namely Maurice Braun, Charles Fries, Franz Bischoff, and William Wendt.
She has dedicated her lifelong pursuit of learning to paint in the plein air impressionistic style and to share this ongoing journey of knowledge by teaching small intimate groups once a year outdoors and in her studio.