Rolling into Spring

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to run the DRILLS/Alla Prima classes this Spring, but I am excited to be hosting another Landscape Painting Workshop here in Santa Fe in May.

The main workshop will be five days of Plein Air Painting (May 5-9) as we venture out into beautiful locations in and around Santa Fe. For those interested, there is an option to stretch out the workshop for an additional week (May 12-16).

Click here for more info & registration.

The Kitchen (Ghost Ranch) | Oil on Linen 2025

Art Santa Fe | Works For Sale | Autumn Landscape Painting Workshop

For most of my painting education/career I wasn’t very interested in painting the landscape (strange, given the awe I have always felt for nature’s sublimity). My first attempt in Santa Fe during the winter of 2008 found me cursing my frozen fingers and a particular tree that seemed to get a kick out of dropping snow on me and my palette. It wasn’t until a decade later when I met my (now) wife Jillian - and when I found out it was something she enjoyed doing - that I started to get into it. I had to pull out all the stops if I was going to gain her favor. My love for landscape painting grew as I fell deeper in love with Jillian (It’s several years on, and now our 20 month old daughter Sylvie paints outdoors with us occasionally…and she loves it - I’m sure she’ll have more Instagram followers than me in no time).

Plein air painting became a particularly great activity during the pandemic, and all that time outside (diving into a 100 landscapes project) was a great opportunity for me to get better and to balance out my overall studio practice. Needless to say, a collection of sketches, studies, demos and dust have been building up in my studio over the past few years. I decided to blow off that dust, mount, sign, varnish the paintings, and re-open a storefront gallery here on my site (Each piece for sale is floated in a wooden handmade frame, thanks to my dad… In truth, “thanks” isn’t nearly enough for all the beautiful work he’s done! I should probably take him out for lunch). I will be offering signed, dated & numbered limited edition giclee prints for several of the sketches as well.

Handmade Frames by my dad, Dwayne Hall

ART SANTA FE | July 12-14 2024

For anyone who is interested in seeing this ensemble of work in person (always ideal!), I’ll be exhibiting the landscapes in booth #128 at the Santa Fe Convention Center from July 12-14. Click here for tickets, and more information about the show.

Painting is the fun part. In general, I’d much prefer numb fingers and falling snow to having to promote myself and my work, but it’s certainly an aspect of my career that needs some balancing out as well. Wish me luck… and come say hi!

Argentonnay Sketch 2019

…And lastly, I’ve finally decided on dates for my Autumn Landscape Painting Workshop here in Santa Fe:

Part 1 | En Plein Air - November 7-11 & Part 2 | In the Studio - November 12-16

We will be spending the first five days painting the landscape from various locations in and around Santa Fe. The focus will be primarily on creating color and compositional studies that will inspire our second five days of in-studio paintings. Enroll for each session separately, or sign up for both parts (and save $200).

Follow the links above or visit the Workshops page for more info and registration, and be sure to visit the Calendar page to find out about other upcoming courses.

Finally had a little time...

…to wrap up this studio painting of Argentonnay in France (Home of Studio Escalier, where I’ll be teaching figure drawing and painting again this Autumn). The project was an opportunity for me to celebrate a place that I have deep reverence for, and to start producing more ambitious studio work. Speaking of which… peering out from behind the homasote is another project that I’m eager to get back to.

Beyond the studio walls, I’m eyeing the week of October 28-Nov 1 as potential dates for the next Plein Air Painting workshop (in and around Santa Fe). I’ll do my best to make that official and to get registration up on the website ASAP.

August 2022 | In person Workshops | Skill Building & Long Pose Figure Painting

I’m excited to be teaching two in person classes back to back at The Ryder Studio in August:
Follow the links below/visit http://www.mtobiashall.com/workshops-1 for more course info & Registration

DRILLS | August 8-12, Painting & Drawing skill building session
1 week | $500

Figure Painting | August 15 - September 2, Long Pose Figure Painting
3 weeks | $1500

DRILLS + Figure Painting Package
4 weeks | $1750

Registration Deadline on Friday, July 29

Spring 2020 in Santa Fe

Some recent teaching/workshop developments in Santa Fe:

Evening Sessions (at the Ryder Studio) - Tuesdays & Wednesdays (6-9pm)
- Paint or draw one figure pose over a four week block (8 sessions total)
- Includes instructor demonstrations and one on one feedback
- Dates: Feb 18,19,25,26, Mar 3,4,10,11
- $350 for 8 sessions | $55 per class

Spring Figure Painting (at the Ryder Studio) - March 16-20 (9:30am - 5 pm)
- Week long figure painting intensive
- Includes instructor demonstrations and one on one feedback
- $450

More information & registration on my workshops page.

Santa Fe

Had a wonderful figure painting workshop at The Ryder Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico - a really great way to begin the new year. Our model Arzélie was incredibly inspiring and the students were a joy to work with. Many thanks to each and all who were a part of this experience.

I hope to have a few more workshops in the meantime, but on the horizon is my Summer in Paris figure drawing class(es) with Studio Escalier - Info & application is online (Priority deadline is February 1st).