Event Date(s):
January 4 - 11, 2025
Event Location:
Mexico
Casa de los Artistas is a gracious hacienda with internet access and generous meeting spaces overlooking the ocean and across the river from Boca de Tomatlan, an authentic rural Mexican fishing village just 10 miles south of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s gorgeous Pacific Coast. Located on the same latitude as Hawaii, typical weather from November thru May is 84°f, dry and sunny.
Through various exercises using both drawing and painting media, we will explore and practice the various foundational principles of drawing and painting that teach us to see. You will leave with a set of exercises and skills to enhance your practice and continued artistic growth. Along with the wonderful cuisine, inspirational locations and wonderful excursions, (see our website for details), there will be demos and exercises each day to develop each individuals creative signature and abilities to See and move towards developing your personal “shorthand”.
“I love what Bob teaches. It is meaningful and illuminating! Thank you!”
– participant
This workshop is an expanded version of what Masla touched upon when teaching this past May (2024), at the Plein Air Convention and Expo as part of the Plein Air Fundamentals workshop series. He will be will be teaching again, in May of 2025, for the third year in a row, at the Plein Air Convention and Expo at Lake Tahoe. 2023 saw him on the Demo Stage in Colorado doing an oil painting demo and delivering a lecture on Beginning with the Importance of Intention: Improvisation and other Key Principles and Techniques. He will be offering a version of this lecture at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, October 10, at 12:15 – 1:15pm
“This is the most practical explanation I have ever seen!”…”I had stopped sketching because I was so frustrated. Bob has truly inspired me.”…”I love how Bob helps it all make sense” – participant
“The importance of learning to draw is, aside from training us in eye hand coordination, basic principles and a host of technical skills, is that it can teach us how to see, and most importantly to see as an artist. Equally important to me, is that drawing, like painting is a practice. I don’t just mean this in the sense of my often used phrase of the 5 P’s needed to develop ones craft and produce art, Patience, Practice, Persistence, Permission and Passion. I mean Practice in a spiritual sense, like meditation, a process that can center us, move us beyond thought, into entering the creative “flow”, and the present moment. This is particularly powerful when drawing or painting in plein air. We have the opportunity to make the reconnection between Nature and our Self, the opportunity to dissolve the boundaries through the Eye – the I of Awareness.”
– Masla
Remove your fears, doubts, and the intimidation of drawing and painting and unleash your creativity and your passion during this special week at Casa de los Artistas! Take your painting to the next level when you join Casa Founder/Director, artist, Robert Masla for this journey of creativity. Bob shares with you insights and exercises so that you can rapidly advance in your drawing/painting skills and learn to see as a painter, developing an artists eye of awareness. Bob helps you to understand intention and tap your passion, the fire inside you – the spirit within – inspiration – that gives animation and life to your artwork.
“This is a game changer. No one has ever put this so simplistically for me. Bravo!”
-participant
