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“En Plein Aire” Outdoor Painting with Afsaneh Michaels May 19- June 9 Mondays 9:30-12:00

“En Plein Aire” Outdoor Painting with Afsaneh Michaels

at the Rossmoor Garden Club gardens

May 19- June 9, 2025

Mondays 9:30-12:00

The plain air class taught by Afsaneh Michaels will take place at the gardens of the Rossmoor Garden Club nearby. Artists will paint or draw directly onto canvas or paper using a medium of their choice (students must be comfortable and familiar with their own medium), and learn how to frame a painting or a drawing from an outdoor scene.

The garden club has welcomed Rossmoor artists to create art from the beautiful and varied gardens full of flowers and fruit and will provide chairs for artists while sitting on the deck and will occasionally even provide a bouquet or two if the group wants to sit around a table under the 250 year old Oak tree within the gardens. The gardens are truly beautiful and provide a wonderful setting for inspiration and subject matter.

We will meet at the Gateway parking lot and carpool to the gardens.

For further information contact Afsaneh Michaels. AfsanehAm@gmail.com

 Instructor: Afsaneh Michaels, AfsanehAm@gmail.com

May 19- June 9, 2025  Mondays: 9:30-12:00

Cost: $80.00 residents, non-residents $100.00

Place:  Rossmoor Garden club gardens. Meet at Gateway parking lot

Number of Students: 12

Materials: Your medium of choice and setup (including an outdoor easel if you have one and a view finder) a hat is highly recommended.

Afsaneh Michaels, Instructor

Afsaneh A. Michaels is San Francisco Bay Area fine artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher with over 30 years of creative experience.Afsaneh was raised from an early age in Europe and the U.S. She studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000. After Edinburgh, Afsaneh over to Florence Italy where she studded drawing and painting. She has exhibited work in galleries around the Bay Area, and the east coast.In the early part of her career Afsaneh worked as an urban and country planner with the United Nations in Africa in Kenya and Malawi and later transitioned into art and exhibit design and worked at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi where she designed an exhibit for anthropologist, Richard Leakey. Later she worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Designing exhibits and collaborating with colleagues in various International museums.Afsaneh has always been an artist and after Edinburgh she moved to Florence in Italy where she started teaching small groups of adults and children in painting and drawing. Afsaneh loves to teach and uses a coaching style- mentoring each individual, guiding and developing their vision and direction while building foundational skills towards the student’s art practice. www.AfsanehMichaelStudio.com