The first installment of Matt Smith's Painting on Location series, "The Sonoran Desert" is now available.  Click on the title or image for more information.  To order your copy contact SourceTek at www.CanvasPanels.com.

"Join me on a painting excursion into the Sonoran desert and discover the beauty of this rugged country!"

Oak Creek Productions announces Matt Smith’s first DVD, which provides instruction on the creation of an oil painting en plein air in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Viewers will spend a day with Matt beginning with the selection and structuring of potential scenes to paint. After settling on a scene, he provides both visual and verbal instruction starting with a blank panel and progressing through various stages to a completed painting.
 
The DVD is comprised of the instructional section lasting 72 minutes and a 14-minute bonus section. The bonus section includes Matt discussing the equipment and supplies he takes along when he paints outdoors, thoughts on selecting a motif, plus a slide show on a selection of his field studies.
 
The disc is structured so that the viewer can select specific starting points, which include 24 “scene selections”. This enables the viewer to select specific starting points for re-reviewing areas of particular interest.

In association with Oak Creek Productions, this DVD is available exclusively from SourceTek. 
 

Now Available

Discovering America through the Eyes of Acclaimed Plein Air Artists

Far more than a “how-to” show, the Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape Series is a celebration of our natural world, a visual retreat to our nation’s beautiful places and an exploration of the rich and colorful history of American landscape painting. From the founding of the Cape Cod School by Charles Hawthorne in 1899 and gathering of the Taos Society of Artists a few years later, to location demonstrations by today’s leading landscape artists, viewers will discover the roots of this uniquely American art form and why painting “en plein air” is once again at the forefront of American representational art.

Denali, en Plein Air

Three nationally acclaimed plein air artists, Matt Smith, of Scottsdale, Arizona, Kenn Backhaus of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, and Jean LeGassick, of Silver City, Nevada, paint Alaska’s Mt. McKinley, North America’s tallest mountain, and the expansive wilderness landscape of Denali National Park.

Viewers join Smith on location for a brief painting demonstration and a glimpse into the training, technique and thought processes necessary to paint a successful plein air painting. And the adventure and risks of painting in the wild become evident when a blond grizzly arrives uninvited, and sends the artists scurrying.

A visit to the Anchorage Museum presents the astonishing mountaineer and artist, George Brown, and the paintings he created while climbing Mt. McKinley as a member of the 1947 Bradford Washburn Mt. McKinley Expedition.

This DVD is available from SourceTek.