Ray Roberts

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Award-winning artist Ray Roberts grew up in the days when Orange County, California was still filled with citrus groves and open fields, a landscape that inspired his lifelong affection for the untamed beauty of the countryside and coast.

Ray began his career as an illustrator, establishing studios in Los Angeles and Scottsdale before turning full-time to fine art in 1992. Today, he is widely regarded as a leading voice in American plein air painting, with a career distinguished by numerous top awards, including multiple Best in Show honors at the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational, and capped by LPAPA’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Highly respected as both an artist and instructor, Ray brings deep knowledge, clarity, and enthusiasm to his teaching, whether in person, through his workshops, or in his popular instructional videos and online courses.

One-Day Workshop with Ray Roberts

May 1 | Friday One-Day Workshop  9:00 am – 4 pm (with a break for lunch)

Join Ray Roberts for a special one-day workshop during our plein air event, and experience firsthand his thoughtful approach to capturing light, atmosphere, and the emotional truth of a scene.

Capturing a Landscape Quickly and Effectively

Visualizing a painting is key to knowing the direction a painting may go before committing the time and effort in creating it. Through demonstrations, Ray will show his methods for visualizing a scene as a painting, drawing quick value sketches in markers, and painting in a method that builds success from start to finish. He will also share all the tools he uses to ‘check’ progress on a painting through objective concepts. He bases his process on an Atelier approach of painting form (light and shadow), drawing, and composition. 

This condensed workshop will offer all of his methods used to capture where subject meets design.

Highlights: Live demonstrations, one-on-one instruction, all levels welcome and all media welcome.

Cost
$150

Maximum number of students
12

Send payment through PayPal to email recipient: ray@krollroberts.com (RE: May 1, 2026 PNWPA workshop)

Materials List Link

Ray Roberts website

Photo courtesy of Medicine Man Gallery