2026 PACE - Basics Course

Event Dates: 5/14/26 – 5/18/26

Join us for this beginner-friendly, hands-on session with well known, professional artists—your essential launchpad for the Plein Air Convention & Expo. This class delivers the core skills you need to thrive in this unique art form. Skip it, and you’ll miss the fundamentals that everything else builds on.

This is not a lecture—it’s an immersive, high-energy experience packed with in-depth exercises in drawing, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and oil. You’ll dive in, build skills fast, and walk away fired up, confident, and loaded with practical techniques you can use immediately.