Wednesday Night 8-Week Painting Class for People Who Want to Get Serious About Their Art

This 8-week class is for people with some painting experience or people who have painted in the past and want to return to painting. If you are looking for lots of skill-building exercises that will make you a better, of if you want to get series about building a body of work, this is the class for you.

Classes will be built around art exercises that elevate skills around value and form, portrait and figure painting, and will be the basis of a series. As always, this class will focus on figuring out who the painter is an artist and how to get them to the next level of painting.

Students enrolled in weekly classes will have access to the studio in designated hours in the weekend. 

• We will start a class with fabric or tissues paintings in the spirit of Hugo McCloud, and then turn those works into a painting on canvas. 
• We look at how Monet captures light and use it to paint our own gardens or a favorite place in Venice. 
• We will look at the portraiture of Whistler and Monet and then stage a similar highly-contrasted portrait of somebody we love.
• We will look at sublime art, like that of Casper David Friedrich, and make our own world sublime. 
• We will paint an outer space world of moons and stars in order to think about value, pattern, and mixing chromatic blacks. 
• We will explore surrealism and symbolism by looking at the work of Gertrude Abercrombie and De Chirico.