Frances
Galante, an art instructor with the Woodmere Art Museum, has been bringing her
Plein Air painting students to Northwestern Avenue at the edge of Wissahickon
Park – to paint in the open air, of course. On a recent morning she was seen
giving tips to student Maria Kurtzman, who was painting the horse barn. on how to
put back in the shadows of the cupola that were visible when the sun was lower
in the sky. In addition to making a mental memory of the scene, Galante says, a
drawing or a digital camera shot are other tools that can be used to meet the
landscape painting challenge of changing objects in the scene and shifting
light. For student Anne Rothman, Galante suggested more specificity. Watch video here.