IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING CLASSES IN JANUARY 2013
Location: Sacramento Fine Arts Center.
Description: These oil painting classes will emphasize working quickly and completing at least two paintings in 4-6 afternoons. We will be using a direct approach, which the impressionists called “Alla Prima,” or “all at once.”…
MENDOCINO PLEIN AIR PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH VICTORIA BROOKS
Location: The Mendocino Art Center is located in the heart of the beautiful village of Mendocino on the coast 150 miles north of San Francisco overlooking the rugged expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
Website: www.mendocinoartcenter.org
Description: Victoria Brooks…
IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH VICTORIA BROOKS
Location: Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon.
Description: This workshop will encompass the principals of Impressionist Painting: simplifying the process of seeing luminous color and light. You will learn to see colors you didn’t even know were there! Creativity, technique,…
PAINT IN THE CINQUE TERRE, ITALY WITH VICTORIA BROOKS
Location: The Cinque Terre (eastern Liguria Coast of Italy, 5 Cliff side Villages).
Website: www.toscanaamericana.com
Date: September 15 – 22, 2012
Description: Award-winning painter and instructor Victoria Brooks will be teaching a six-day, seven night workshop in The…
PAINT IN BARCELONA, & THE COSTA BRAVA, SPAIN, WITH VICTORIA BROOKS
Location: Barcelona & the Costa Brava, Spain
Date: September 15 – 22, 2014
This small group (only 7 students) allows for a lot of personal attention.
Please go to www.frenchescapade.com for details. An early enrolment discount is available.
WEEKEND IMPRESSIONIST & PLEIN AIR OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP
Date: TBA
Location: Victoria’s Loomis, CA studio.
Exhibitions for 2012
March 8 – May, 2012: SAVING PARADISE, The Symbiosis of Landscape Painting and Environmental Awareness: Victoria’s painting “American River Fall” is included in the exceptional exhibition by the California Art Club. Opening Reception: March 11. The Los Angeles Municipal Art…
July 2 – 31, 2011: FEATURED ARTIST
Victoria will have 18 paintings in this solo exhibition at Fairweather House and Garden.
Artist’s reception: 5-7 pm in conjunction with Seaside’s Art Walk Saturday, July 2, 2011. Seaside, Oregon. www.fairweatherhouseandgarden.com.
November 13 – December 31, 2010: ART EXSISTS HERE
Victoria will have several paintings included in this exceptional group exhibition at the Patris S12 Gallery in Sacramento, CA.
The two opening receptions will be during Sacramento’s 2nd Saturday Art Openings. November 13, 2010 & December 11, 2010. 6pm…
September 27 – October 3, 2010: PLEIN AIR SAN LUIS OBISPO
Victoria was selected to paint in this exhibition and competition by the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (CA). The Collectors Party is Friday night 4:30-6 pm followed by a public exhibition. Saturday from 9:30 am to 11:30 am is…
August 26 – October 3, 2010: NATIONAL INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION FOR AMERICAN ART
Victoria has been invited to show two of her paintings at the A. R. Mitchell Museum, Trinidad, CO.
July 26 – 31: 2010 FRANK BETTE PLEIN AIR PAINTING COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION
Victoria is one of 40 artists chosen to paint the beautiful island city of Alameda in the San Francisco Bay. Don’t miss the “Quick Draw” on the Park Street Bridge to the bay, Thursday the 29th and the exhibition and…
Follow Victoria’s Oil and Watercolor Workshop in Provence, France
French Escapade Workshops has invited Victoria to teach “Painting and Sightseeing in the Provence” an 8-day oil and watercolor painting workshop.
Follow Victoria as she travels, paints, and teaches her classes in France!
http://traveltofranceandmore.com/
Welcome to My New Website!
Good things take time…and this website seemed take a long time. I wonder why? Could it have been that I was traveling and painting close to 4 months in 2009? Let’s see, trips to North Carolina, Idaho, Oregon, and then…
Victoria Brooks Selected For National Oil And Acrylic Painter’s Society (NOAPS) Signature Artists’ Guild!
By virtue of her professional success and “consistent excellence” Victoria was honored during an official induction held on Saturday, November 5, 2005. She attended the NOAPSociety National Convention, Award Ceremony, the formal Reception in Osage Beach, Missouri, USA. This honor…