May 9-11
Carmel California
Big Sur Coastline Wild Flowers & coastal beauty!

Are your paintings muddy and well, …kinda grey?
In this in-person plein-air workshop, you will learn
how Debra’s color and design secrets
can change your paintings! 

Many times paintings end up all looking blue
and green or grey.

Learn how to push reds into your paintings in unexpected ways and places.

Learn how to warm up a blue so it shimmers.

Capture the character of the incredible cypress trees, coastal flowers and ocean vistas.
Stay in beautiful Carmel, CA

Simplify the Landscape for lush beauty

Coming in the fall in Newport Beach

Ultimate Color & Design Secrets for
Powerful Landscapes Anywhere!

Learn how to design for powerful landscapes.

Simplify and edit to get the most drama and beauty.

Learn how to get thick paint and clean, juicy paintings.

Insider secrets for your success!

Join us at Huse Skelly Gallery, in Newport Beach, CA for five glorious days of a -new you- as a painter!
Enjoy positive, upbeat & insightful instruction.

(Last two workshops SOLD OUT. Sign up ASAP.)

Enjoy painting in beautiful Southern California.

• Learn to impressionist masters’ secrets that Debra has uncovered.

• Break old habits and bring a new, more confident, approach to your work.

• Debra Huse is a great teacher, sharing every aspect of her techniques to achieve successful paintings.

• Let Debra “hold your hand” to get the correct feel of the brush and how to apply paint.

• Learn secrets about clouds, mountains, water, boats, skies & trees.
  What color works perfectly for sand?

• Three things you must always do for a successful painting.

• Learn how each brush has its own magic — and how to unlock it.
  Learn how each brush has its own magic and how to unlock it.

• Learn how to use Huse Hues Oil Paint for almost everything to add subtle color to things you see as grey.

• What color are clouds? And how do you paint them?

Paint Southern France!

Paint Provence and the Côte d’Azur FRANCE

June 22—30, 2024

SOLD OUT

Paint Provence and the Côte d’Azur
with Debra Huse and Lisa Skelly

We will stay in a fabulous castle!
Paint, sip, dine and tour the beautiful Côte d’Azur and Provence in lavender season.
Bask in the golden hours that will take your breath away, feast on the bounty of the region and learn from Debra Huse and Lisa Skelly, two masters of color. 

We invite you to enjoy a fantastic program of learning and growing your painting skills while based at a charming, historical château near Avignon.

Spend 9 Idyllic days painting the landscape in Southern France with a special visit to the Calanque, a breathtaking series of inlets where cliffs drop down into
crystal clear teal waters.
This once-in-a-lifetime, inspiring and instructive workshop will be unforgettable.

The Workshop in France is led by Julie Snyder and her wonderful team.
Julie is an experienced traveler who works tirelessly to make each experience exceptional for guests. She is passionate about art, exploring new places and sharing these opportunities with fellow artists. 

What Debra’s Students Say

Besides being an amazing artist, Debra is also a really fantastic instructor.   
She is patient, very organized and explains things clearly
and at a pace everyone can understand.  
During her painting demos, she takes her time to guide you step-by-step through her thought process before and after making each paint stroke on her canvas. Debra explains in detail how each one of her actions
moves her toward a beautiful painting.
She amazingly is able to paint standing to the side of her canvas facing the class (which is not an easy thing to do!)
so that all her students can see her every move

Most importantly, Debra is funny, relaxed and very entertaining.  
It was a great workshop and I highly recommend it!
-John William Hauser

“ I was a bit apprehensive about taking my first painting class with my husband, especially with others who were so much more experienced.
Debra quickly put those thoughts to rest and I didn’t want to put my brushes down.
Plein Air painting has given me a new appreciation for our beautiful purple hued mountains and multi colored sunsets.
We look forward to honing our skills with more classes. So much fun!”
-Ellen & Michael Volk

Are you ready to push yourself
to the next level?

Work with Debra Huse to refresh and refine your brushwork and design.
Get clean color solutions for dynamic paintings.
Learn fun and insightful techniques for capturing boats,
clouds, trees and ocean in your paintings.
This workshop will be
held mostly outdoors in beautiful Southern California locations, and include lots of individual attention.
Debra will dial-in with each participant to improve each artist’s strengths.
Debra will be working in regular oil,
but water-based oil and acrylics are fine.
Debra is also happy to work with you if you paint in pastel or watercolor.

Basic “Keep You Out of Trouble” Palette Colors include Cadmium Lemon Yellow, Quinacridone Red, Raw Sienna,
Alizarin Crimson Permanent, Ultramarine Blue, Viridian,
and Titanium White.

It’s the quality of the artist’s involvement in the subject and the amount of mind, heart, and soul one gets into the painting, that matters.

The danger of working from photos, is that you can become a slave to details and miss the opportunity to discover and create your own expression.
Direct observation, as in plein air painting,
submerges you in sensory experience
and invites you to become intimate with your subject.