Painting Outside with Matt Lively 

Spring 2025 

8 meetings 

Fridays 10am - 1pm,  March 21st - May 9th

Pre-registration!! (9am Friday, March 7th) 

Hi!!!!  The following is the information about the Spring 2025 session of Painting Outside with Matt Lively.  

The Spring session will be 8 sessions. 

We are a group of folks painting outside.  I am one of the folks responsible for organizing the outings and will be available to answer any technical questions any participants may have during our outings. I will meet with everyone during our outings and make myself available via other means outside of our group times.  

 In all meetings, each participant is responsible for their own food, safety, and well-being.  This is a Spring session and the weather is expected to be good.  One never really knows with Richmond.   Any weather-related make-ups will be on Fridays after the session ends.  

The group will be a limited number of participants so I can talk with everyone.   

At 9:30am before each session, there will be a short demo.  Participation is voluntary. 

 The goal of this group is to get better at painting and create a reason to go and do it.  Since I love to paint and teach, I invite you to join me outside so that we can all get better at painting.  The repetition of the outings is key in learning.  Painting outside allows for the opportunity to work quickly and without the burden of deep thought that is suffered in the studio.  We go outside and paint there.  

In order to make this project sustainable, ongoing, and able to grow to include more interesting locations, I will be requiring a registration fee from each participant.  The registration fee includes organization, instruction when needed, critique when asked, locations, communication (email and text), water, and pop-up shows including our best work at The gallery at Westminster Canterbury after our session! Date of that show TBA

We will have guest artists during some of our outings for you to learn from as well! 

The Spring Session will be $200 (plus VA tax) total registration fee if paid in advance.  ($250 after March 19th)

Early registration for the Spring 2025 session of Painting Outside with Matt Lively officially begins, Friday, March 7th at 9am via my website (mattlivelystore.com).  The payment on my site works with PayPal and credit cards (via Stripe).  In the event that you need to pay a different way, let me know as soon as you can.  I can do Venmo and other means.  

The registration fee includes all.   

DATES: The Spring 2025 group will meet Fridays  from 10am - 1:00pm starting March 21st and continuing until May 9th (8 meetings)

Each painter will provide for their own painting needs, creature comforts, bug spray and snacks if needed.  I will provide drinking water. 

LOCATIONS: Locations are subject to change but you will be notified via email in a timely manner before the session starts and each subsequent week.  I will send a weekly email on Sundays to detail the next location.  

*Rain/makeup days : In the event of a rainout, we will tack on additional Fridays corresponding to the number of rainouts.  If it is raining, I will send an email with that days status.  

Suggestion:  what you paint that day is what you paint.  Resist addressing today’s painting again until after our last meeting.  Suffering this suggestion will pay off.

Hope to paint with you!

Matt