JANE SHOENFELD'S ART ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTHWEST

Personalized art adventures geared to your skill level and time schedule. 
Art Classes and Workshops focus on the beauty of the Southwest landscape from 
canyon sunsets to adobe architecture. We offer classes for family reunions, children, as well as individual and studio classes focusing on a variety of media. Art and Creativity workshops for meetings and seminars can be arranged. Workshops in Art Therapy with a focus on nature and the creative process are also available.

Sketching Santa Fe

All Fine Art classes and workshops focus on expressing your response to the landscape and architecture of New Mexico.
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Team Building

Team Building and Workshops for Large Groups. This is a fun and creative event that can be held either as an outdoor adventure or an art studio event.
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New Holiday Schedule 2015

To families, friends and returning students spending the holidays in Santa Fe - my class schedule has been updated. Since both Christmas and New Year's fall on a Friday, I will be offering my group classes on Thursday of those ...
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Team Building Through Expressive Arts

"Jane was a pleasure to work with! Her recommendations for our group worked perfectly. We truly enjoyed our Team building session." Quote from Melanie L., group organizer Melanie was from a major corporation in Albuquerque. She contacted me about a ...
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Art Holidays and Creative Surprises for Families and Friends

I am so pleased to offer classes to families, friends that travel together and all of you that choose to take an art class on your holiday. I have always liked working with groups because there are always surprises. It ...
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Pastels at Twilight Summer 2013

Join us in the vivid and changing light of Santa Fe at Twilight! I hold this series of classes every summer. We will focus on color, imaginative simplification/abstraction and a vibrant and energetic use of pastel and mixed media techniques ...
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Painting Outdoors in New Mexico

Today is the first day of Spring. I am ready to paint outdoors again, now that it is getting warm. There are many painting spots that I love in Santa Fe. I often bring my students to these great plein ...
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Plein Air Painting-Bananas in Costa Rica

This image is a detail from a pastel painting I made in Costa Rica. It took a few days to get someone to help me carry plastic table and chairs up to my painting spot on the wild banana mountain. ...
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The Entrance to The Play With Scale is Through the Eyes…

In both my large scale studio work and my smaller work, the eyes are the beginning. When paintings are taller or wider than I am, my peripheral vision is filled and my body is enveloped within the piece. I traverse, ...
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Road Trip – Rock, Forest, Ocean, Sky, Rock

From Santa Fe, our route west was a diagonal to Idaho and Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve - a 52 mile long volcanic fissure. We camped there amidst the black lava rock and then continued west and ...
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Jane Shoenfeld Art Adventures

Art, Imagination and Repetition

Jennifer is sketching. The photo above is from a plein air painting class at Ghost Ranch, NM. Jennifer was one of 11 participants. The assignment was to make three charcoal drawings of the same scene before beginning to work in ...
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Ghost Ranch-Strange Matter and the Nature of Transparency

I'll be teaching a one and a half day Ghost Ranch workshop on July 27th and July 28th. It is almost full. I will be teaching the same workshop at Ghost Ranch in early October. The October workshop will be ...
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