He is also a “Master” mentor with the online mentoring community Mastrius.
In addition to teaching plein air workshops in Italy, he also teaches in the Pacific Northwest at Pacific Northwest Art School, Winslow Art Center, and (from 1998–2018) Gage Academy of Art. His atmospheric and semi-abstract landscapes have been exhibited nationally and are represented in corporate and private collections.
Instructor Bio: Mitch Albala has dedicated himself to being a landscape painter and teaching artist for more than 30 years. Level: advanced beginner to intermediate for painters in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic Required: Masks to be worn throughout workshop (proof of vaccination not required). how to balance detail and simplicity with the 80/20 rule.how to lay a foundation with a restricted number of shapes.shape combining and the hierarchy of shapes - how to discriminate between major driver shapes and minor shapes.how limited values encourage shape differentiation.how the first step of simplification is through a “limited focus”.Essential coursework for plein air painters. In this class, working from your own photos and/or those supplied by your instructor, you will do several exercises and paintings, designed to encourage your eye and hand toward the simplified shape interpretation that is the backbone of the landscape painting experience. Painting or drawing a shape is not that difficult, but seeing a shape through layers of color, detail and complexity requires a practiced shift in perception - an ability to see the forest and the trees. The ability to simplify - to translate nature’s complexity into fewer and more readable shapes and patterns - is the most important skill for the landscape painter. It’s much more difficult - but infinitely more eloquent - to paint a thousand points of light with only one hundred strokes.” – Mitchell Albala, from “Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice” It’s easy to paint a thousand points of light with a thousand brushstrokes.
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