Tom Lockhart

Colorado native, Tom Lockhart, was born and raised in Monte Vista, the heart of the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. Tom's love for nature and the outdoors is evident in his paintings. Striving to convey a feeling for light and atmosphere is always a challenge for any artist but for Tom it is even more challenging because he works in oils, pastels, and watercolors. Lockhart enjoys painting his local surroundings but also travels throughout the United States to capture additional images with brush and paint. He travels the southwest canyons of Arizona and Utah, and the villages of northern New Mexico as well as the Rocky Mountains and the coast of Maine. He looks for every opportunity to search for new and inspiring subject matter, painting on location.

Lockhart has been included in many national and regional juried exhibitions. He has been in the Top 100 (four times) for the National Arts for the Parks and has won numerous awards including two-time Region III Winner. Tom is a Signature member of the prestigious Northwest Rendezvous (NWR), a group of forty four of the country's top artists. He is a Signature member of The Oil Painters of America, the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Outdoor Painter Society and Landscape Artists International. He has won the Award of Excellence and the Patron's Choice Award at the Central Regional Oil Painters of America, and he has received the Director's Choice Award and the Award of Excellence at Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters in Estes Park, Colorado. Lockhart has also been included in the Colorado Governor's Show in Loveland and the Greeley Western Stampede Show. Tom has also been included in the Colorado Mountain Club Show in Golden, CO. Lockhart has been a feature artist in the Feb 2006 Landscape issue of Southwest Art Magazine, and was awarded the cover of that issue. Tom was chosen by Watercolor Magazine and the Forbes to paint for a week at the Forbes Trinchera Ranch and then exhibit watercolor paintings at The Forbes Magazine Galleries in New York City and San Francisco. He was then also featured in Watercolor Magazine's, "Colorado Markings", an article about the Forbes Trinchera painting trip.

Tom was named Colorado Artist of the Year for Ducks Unlimited and his art has helped benefit the Colorado Wildlife Society, Trout Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. "Subliminal Drama", an article about Tom, was featured in Art of the West Magazine. Tom's work is included in many corporate and private collections in both the United States and abroad. He enjoys teaching plein air workshops throughout the year. He has his own gallery and sudio, La Casa De Luz, in Monte Vista, CO and Wildhorse Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO, Cogswell Gallery, Vail, CO, and Elkhorn Gallery, Winter Park, CO

Call WCA at (970) 318-0150 or email for a registration form, or Register

May 23, 2008

The GO date is the date when, if the minimum number of students has registered, we know the class will be held. If the minimum number of students has not registered by the GO date, the class will be canceled. So be sure and register early to help ensure your class will be held.

Tom will start with a lecture on the basics of painting. Just like a football coach with his new team. he reinitiates the fundamentals so everyone is on the same page.

Students may choose to work in watercolors, pastels, or oils. We talk about materials, supplies, and equipment. He then proceeds with having everyone go on location (weather permitting) or painting a small painting from their references.

Tom will then do a demo painting on the second day, if we run out of time on the first day. He likes to do a demo in the field so he may bring it back to the studio on the second day, to do a more finished studio painting from it.

On the third and final day, we will wrap up everyone's field painting into a studio painting and finally, critique their work.

Pay in full before the GO date and receive a 10% discount on the price of the class.

$ 333 non-members WCA - $297 if paid in full before GO date
$ 302 members - $272 if paid in full before GO date

We must receive your registration and a 50% deposit by the GO date in order to know if the class will make.

A supply list will be provided by the instructor when students sign up and pay a deposit.

All WCA students receive a 15% discount on art supplies at The Painting Marmot, on Main St., in Ouray, CO.