This 6-week COURSE meets saturday, september 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10, & 17
from 9:00am - 11:00am
En Plein Air is 6-week course building student’s key foundational skills in drawing before going out to capture life in Downtown Covington. The class will begin inside STAA’s studios to build confidence in capturing value, perspective, and composition. The following weeks, students will meet at the scheduled drawing locations in Downtown Covington. Each location will include two warm-up drawings and one resolved drawing. After completing the class, students have the option to display a class drawing in STAA’s member gallery for Three River’s Art Festival on November 14th & 15th.
Location of En Plein Air Drawings Examples (not limited to): Brook’s Bike Shop, Covington Cemetery, English Tea Room, STAA Courtyard (statues and fountains), & The Woodwright Shop
**Every artist draws at the location agreed upon for each day. This allows Hart to still work closely with everyone and provide feedback during the drawing session. **
Schedule:
1st Week: Intro to Charcoal Drawing - In Studio
2nd Week: Building a Drawing – Mass Drawing Technique & Value - In Studio
3rd Week: Perspective Drawing - In Studio
4th Week: En Plein Air Drawing – 1st location
5th Week: En Plein Air Drawing – 2nd location
6th Week: En Plein Air Drawing – 3rd location
EN PLEIN AIR STAA MEMBER GALLERY OPPORTUNITY DURING THREE RIVERS ART FESTIVAL
Students will have the option to display and sell their class drawings inside STAA’s member gallery during the Three River Arts Festival taking place November 14th & 15th. If you decide to display your drawing, STAA will provide paperwork and labels for the piece on display. Artists should have a plan for hanging their work. The following options can be but are not limited to painters’ tape, thumbtacks, framing, etc. Drop off will take place during STAA business hours November 6-7 and 11-12.
All Experience Levels Welcome!
Students are Responsible for Most Supplies
Ages 13 & Older
All supplies available at Mo’s Art Supply in Downtown Covington.
All Classes will begin at STAA Art House at 320 N. Columbia Street in Downtown Covington, unless otherwise stated.
About Amber
Amber Hart is a first-generation American born citizen from a Belizean family that immigrated to New Orleans in 1976. She grew up in rural landscapes as she moved back and forth over state lines throughout her childhood. The adverse lifestyle shaped behavioral tendencies such as seeking out constants in public and private spaces as a source of grounding. Those constants became objects of comfort being charged by psychological tension in her paintings. Hart credits the act of painting as a catharsis by applying her personal constants, plurality psychology and domestic livestock, to act as placeholders for the human psyche in malleable realities. It is a metaphor for the consciousness of a present state, which is for her the act of ruminating. The work has been shown nationally in Baton Rouge Gallery, Ogden Museum of Art, and Southern Mississippi Museum of Art and LeMieux Gallery. Hart was featured in Juxtapoz magazine in 2025 after being awarded 'Best in Show' by Evan Pricco at Baton Rouge's Gallery Annual Surreal Salon exhibition. She lives and works in Covington, Louisiana.