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Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
Time: 2:00-3:30PM Pacific Time/5:00-6:30 PM Eastern Time/10:00-11:30 PM London Time
Medium: Oil or acrylic
Join award-winning artist Carl Bretzke for this 90-minute presentation focused on capturing realistic light in nocturne scenes. Carl will demonstrate and explain the key artistic techniques he uses to create convincing light effects in his night paintings. He’ll also share practical tips and insights to help you bring the same sense of believable illumination to your own work.
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$40 for one year
Carl Bretzke is a representational oil painter who specializes in urban scenes, night scenes and plein air landscapes. He is a member of The Plein Air Painters Of America since 2021.
Carl’s work has been described in the Washington Post as “simultaneously intimate and detached. The artist’s unadorned style recalls Edward Hopper and The Ashcan school.”
Carl holds an MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Colorado, where he also received a minor in Fine Art. Carl has originally trained under Plein Air Painters of America signature artist Joseph Paquet.
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