PAINTING CLASSES at The Boca Raton Museum of Art - The Art School
STARTING SEPTEMBER 9
www.bocamuseum.org/index.php
Tuesdays
9 - 12 am
3.23 - Painting Foundations - Beginning - Intermediate
1 - 4 pm
3.24 - The Essence of painting - Intermediate - Advanced
3.16 - Out of the Box: All Media Painting - Beginning - Advanced
Wednesdays
1 - 4 pm
3.27 - Discovering New Possibilities of Painting - Beginning - Advanced
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Curriculum for 3.23, 3.16, 3.27. One pigment will be detailed every week.
Sept. 7 ONE LOVE
Value - mono-chromatic painting and the power of underpainting.
Anatomy of a shadow, grisalle and verdacchio.
CADMIUM YELLOW LIGHT
Sept. 14 THE SYMPHONY
Composition. - Origins and practice of the golden mean. Cezanne’s compositional tools
CADMIUM ORANGE
Sept. 21 MOODY DAY
Experiment with analaogous color palettes. Create moods and distance with color.
Perspective 101
Cadmium Scarlet
Sept. 28 OPPOSITES ATTRACT
Playing with the complements. Lovely semi-neutrals and ying - yang balance.
CADMIUM RED MEDIUM
Oct. 5 DIFFERENT STROKES!
Brush stroke techniques. Scrumbling, blending, wet on wet, impasto, sgraffito, stippling, tonking, ragging, scraping. Create dominance and conflict with varied strokes.
QUINACRIDONE ROSE
Oct. 12 PUTTING YOUR ARM INTO IT!
Gesture - Brush Strokes - empahsize texture and direction - dominance of detail.
MAGENTA
Oct. 19 HIDE ‘n SEEK
Transparent vs. opaque. Glazing techniques and mediums.Variety and dominance of edges.ULTRAMARINE VIOLET
Oct. 26 LUSCIOUS LAYERS - PLAYING WITH THE PALETTE KNIFE
Manipulating the paint with knives and other texture tools. Building texture in your paintings.
ULTRAMARINE BLUE
Curriculum for 3.24
Sept. 7 WORKING WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
The camera distorts light. Learn how to recognize it’s limitations and how to compensate for them.
CADMIUM YELLOW LIGHT
Sept. 14 THE LANDSCAPE AS ABSTRACT
Composition and value lessons demonstrated by redesigning landscape photos.
CADMIUM ORANGE
Sept. 21 SPACE
Explore multiple tools to build depth in your paintings. Representational and abstract.
Cadmium Scarlet
Sept. 28 CREATING CONFLICT IN YOUR PAINTINGS
Too much of a good thing is “not so good.” Create balance through conflict of subject, value, color and texture. Notan lesson in ying/yang.
CADMIUM RED MEDIUM
Oct. 5 SIZE MATTERS
Learn how to “blow up” a small image with the grid system. Natural patterns can be quite abstract.
QUINACRIDONE ROSE
Oct. 12 PUTTING YOUR ARM INTO IT!
Building energy with gestural strokes. Demonstration of a gesture painting.
MAGENTA
Oct. 19 HIDE ‘n SEEK - EDGES!
Transparent vs. opaque. Glazing techniques and mediums.Variety and dominance of edges.ULTRAMARINE VIOLET
Oct. 26 LUSCIOUS LAYERS - PLAYING WITH THE PALETTE KNIFE
Manipulating the paint with knives and other texture tools. Building texture in your paintings.
ULTRAMARINE BLUE
Curriculums are only a skeleton of demos and information. Subject to change after I evaluate what you might want to learn.
DRAWING CLASSES AT The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach
Drawing with Charisma!
Monday mornings 9 - 12 am. Starting October 23
Draw from still life, models and your imagination while experimenting with materials and techniques
DRAWING CLASSES AT ArtServe, FT. LAUDERDALE
DRAWING
ArtServe Gallery
Thursdays 9:30 am until noon
check my blog for syllabus and links to way cool artists
All Classes are $15 for the class. Drop-ins are always welcome as are all levels
Please call me @ 954.471.8001 to confirm your interest
FIGURE DRAWING from life!
ArtServe Dance Studio (against the mirrors; think of the possibilities!)
Mondays 9:45 - 11:45
$25 per class with live model and instruction
Check my blog for great links and ideas for the next class
Drop-ins are welcome after monthly class committment filled
Please call me @ 954.471.8001 to confirm your interest
I love my students!
SEE YOU THERE!