Painting
in the Canyons
Seven-day workshops painting
spectacular Southern Colorado landscapes
with Professor
Doug Holdread
Doug Holdread has been painting and teaching for over 30 years. His career began as an artist for Coast Guard. He has been an educator, a television art director and a historical illustrator. His paintings are on display at the National Santa Fe Trail Center and the National Park Service has used his work for exhibits along theTrail, from Missouri to New Mexico. For the last four years he has worked with artists and ranchers to increase the public awareness of the threat to Southeastern Colorado posed by the Army’s proposal to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.
Contact Doug at: 719-846-5594, doug.holdread@trinidadstate.edu
The Beatty Canyon Ranch
Steve and Joy Wooten, owners of the ranch, and operators of Purgatoire Adventures Unlimited have offered us a very special rate for meals and lodging during our weekend of painting at this spectacular red-rock canyon setting. Beatty Canyon is a working ranch where the Wooten's raise natural, grass-fed cattle
Oil Painting-
June 2nd –8thWatercolor Painting-
June 22nd –28th
The first three days will be comprised of demonstrations and guided painting activities in the field. The three-day weekend will focus upon individual instruction and group critiques on
location at the Beatty Canyon Ranch.The Monday follow-up session will deal with finishing work in the studio.
Cost of the workshop is $200 tuition to Trinidad State Junior College, plus $150 for meals and lodging.
Enrollment is limited to 12 students.
"I have been physically and visually exploring this region for thirty
years and this setting, along the Purgatoire River with its red rock
canyons and verdant valleys is the most dramatically beautiful
landscape that I have encountered in all of Southern Colorado .”
Pinon Canyon Dawn, Oil Painting, Doug Holdread
Along the Purgatoire, Watercolor Painting, Doug Holdread