April 14-18, 2025

5 fabulous days in Southern California!

Last workshops sold out. Sign up now to save your spot. ONLY 12 students

Learn how to design for powerful landscapes.

Simplify and edit to achieve
maximum 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 fabulous days of a -new you- as a painter!
Enjoy positive, upbeat & insightful instruction.

(The last two workshops SOLD OUT.
Sign up ASAP to secure your spot.)

  • Learn the 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 the secrets to capturing clouds, mountains, water, boats, skies, and trees, and 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 to use and add subtle color to things you see as grey.

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.

 
 

You are invited to join us for an incredible week
of painting, study and fun in a charming fishing village along the gorgeous Pacific coast of Mexico, with renowned artist, Debra Huse.

If you are interested in building your painting skills
and learning the techniques of impressionist masters, then this workshop is for you!
Debra generously shares her knowledge, wisdom
and expertise through a variety of exercises,
demos and paint-alongs.

Immerse yourself in the joys of authentic
Mexican village life at one of the most beautiful
and arts- oriented locales,
Casa de los Artistas.

Located in the beautiful, and serene village of
Boca de Tomatlan, 10 miles south of Puerto Vallarta.

Workshop price includes lodging.
We all get to hang out together in this unique B&B with an open air studio!

 

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

Rocky Mountain National Park, May 2023

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.

Working from photos, you can be 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.