Oil Painting Workshop: Atmosphere in Landscape
Oil Painting Workshop: Atmosphere in Landscape
Date and Time: Two consecutive Saturdays: January 10 and January 17, 2026
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Teaching Artist: Gabriel Islas
Cost: $90 for two sessions
Preregistration required
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Discover the secrets in creating depth and atmosphere in landscape painting! Join teaching artist Gabriel Islas inside SPAM’s Cole Creativity Center for this two-part workshop for all skill levels. This special landscape workshop will reveal the relationship between foreground and background, and core concepts of color, texture, and atmosphere. Gabriel will provide step-by-step instruction and live demonstrations as you create your own 9” x 12” oil painting.
This course will meet on two consecutive Saturdays: January 10, and January 17, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
This class is appropriate for everyone ages 16 and over. The cost of the two-day workshop is $90.00 per person. All skill levels are welcome and all materials are provided. Preregistration is required and space is limited. The course will be held inside the Cole Creativity Center located at 123 N 10th St, Santa Paula, CA. Free parking is available directly behind the building and students may enter through the front or back door.
Questions? Please call the Museum at (805) 525-5554 ext. 104 or email creativity@santapaulaartmuseum.org.
About Our Teaching Artist: Gabriel Islas is a painter and art educator based in Southern California. Gabriel obtained his BFA with an emphasis in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco and exhibits atmospheric landscape paintings. Gabriel manages the Santa Paula Art Museum’s Cole Creativity Center as Curator of Creativity and paints outdoors and out of his studio in Midtown Ventura at Pacific & Main Creative Workspace. He has painted at locations including Mt Rainier, Grand Tetons, Death Valley, the Eastern Sierras, and Denali. Gabriel is a member of the California Art Club, Buenaventura Art Association, Last Place Art Club and Studio Channel Islands. In 2025, he has exhibited at the Studio Channel Islands Member Show, Buenaventura Art Association’s 36th Open Competition, Thousand Oaks Open Juried Art Show, Ventura Botanical Garden’s Plein Air Artist Gallery Show and California Art Club’s Plein Air Visions Exhibition and 114th Gold Medal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for ‘Best Landscape’.
Instagram: gabriel_islas_art
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