Washington As We See It: Sketching and Painting on Location with Samantha Stover

Washington As We See It: Sketching and Painting on Location with Samantha Stover

Class | Available

2129 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Various Locations around DC
All Levels
4/9/2025-6/11/2025
2:00 PM-5:00 PM EDT on Wed
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$505.00

Washington As We See It: Sketching and Painting on Location with Samantha Stover

Class | Available

Let’s draw and paint together as a community, observing and recording Washington, DC from
our own unique and varied perspectives. In this class, we will visit indoor and outdoor public
spaces, tour museums and monuments, and explore the city’s attractions, landmarks and
landscapes. Instruction combines art history, figure drawing, plein air, composition design, and
urban sketching, with group feedback on our interpretations of the city and the development of
our individual visual languages. We will meet in a different location each week (Art Museums,
cafés, gardens, etc) to sketch people, architecture, art, plants, animals, and anything else that
captures your attention!

The first class will take place at WSS, where you will learn to consolidate your all painting
materials into a complete and compact kit. We will prepare sketchbooks for on-the-go oil
painting, as well as for other dry & wet sketching options. You will learn valuable tips and tricks
for packing and transporting wet oil paintings on a convenient, lightweight scale. We will also
tube and label your most essential oil paints. The price of the class reflects the materials included in
this special workshop event.

From Week 2, your instructor will communicate the weekly meeting places. After initial meetup,
there will be group exercises led by your instructor, or you can choose to work independently.
We will meet back to share our sketches in a casual group-critique format.


 

  • Please bring with you the Materials on the following list: 

    • Watercolor sketchbook (size of your choice) I use Hahnemühle watercolor A5 or A6  (dark grey cover) and Global Arts Materials Handbook Travelogue Watercolor book  (natural linen cover, red flower = 200g paper, blue flower = 300g paper - I prefer the  heavier paper *blue flower on cover). 

    • 1/4” or 1/2” drafting tape, painters tape, artists tape (low tack) (tape width proportional  for the size of your sketchbook)  

    • Your most used Oil Paints (such as Earth colors) 

    • Your Sketching materials of choice (appropriate to location) 

    • Spring clip(s)/ Binder clips 

    • Personal items as needed (such as a Hat & SPF; Water bottle; Snack) 

    • Consider carrying only a small shoulder tote – We will pre-research location-specific 

Samantha Stover

Samantha Stover grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Art History from McGill University and a Masters in Fine Art, cum laude, from the New York Academy of Art. Throughout her academic studies in art, she focused her concentration on Drawing Techniques: historical methods and materials as well as figure-drawing exclusively from life. She learned painting, predominantly, as a copyist in New York and Washington, DC and she has traveled widely through Europe studying master drawings and paintings. Her current work involves figuration and the power of creative expression. Drawing also on her previous experience as a theatrical costume designer, she is influenced by the performative and communicative capacity of the human form and spirit. She employs the practices of her traditional training and her experience with the figure in motion to capture fleeting observations, emotions and memories.

To view more of Samantha's work online, visit www.samanthastover.com