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Painters Support Group – Spring 2024, online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

Meeting Online for 4 sessions, every other Tuesday. Upcoming Dates: March 12 and 26, and April 9 and 23.   The adventure of painting in our studios can be a pretty solitary road... Come join us! Jordan will be facilitating a support group for painters, meeting every other week, on Tuesday mornings.    The group […]

$220
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FOUNDATIONS, Morning, in-studio

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 8-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and color. Working step-by-step we’ll develop […]

$480

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CITYSCAPE! 3-Day Plein Air Workshop

The Studio of Patty Fahy 615 3rd Avenue, Longmont, CO

Join us for an exploration of "cityscape" plein air painting in the picturesque area of downtown Longmont.  Full of architecture from the early twentieth century, Main Street of Longmont is full of color and character.  Jordan will be giving a 3-day workshop exploring the town! Each day will include two outdoor sessions working in a […]

$550

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FOUNDATIONS, Morning, in-studio

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 8-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and color. Working step-by-step we’ll develop […]

$480

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ABSTRACTION: LANDSCAPE AS SOURCE – A 3-Day Workshop

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

Located in the beautiful surroundings of Boulder, Colorado, Jordan will be giving a 3-day workshop exploring both plein-air painting and the process of abstraction. During the mornings we will work outdoors in various sites in a traditional a plein-air approach—developing tonal relationships, and searching for a convincing sense of space, light and form. In the […]

$550

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PLAYING with OLD MASTERS, In-Studio

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This In-Studio, 6-Week Course will explore COMPOSITION, through dimensions of Old Master paintings.  Each participant will pick an Old Master painting to explore, working through a step-by-step set of exercises.  Beginning with charcoal and an analysis of the compositional structure. For those that love Old Master traditional painting, but want to make it their own.  […]

$360
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PLAYING with OLD MASTERS, Part I, online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

This Online, 6-Week Course will explore COMPOSITION, through dimensions of Old Master paintings.  Each participant will pick an Old Master painting to explore, working through a step-by-step set of exercises.  Beginning with charcoal and an analysis of the compositional structure. For those that love Old Master traditional painting, but want to make it their own.  […]

$450
Recurring

FOUNDATIONS, Morning, in-studio

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 6-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and color. Working step-by-step we’ll develop […]

$360
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PLAYING with OLD MASTERS, Part II, online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

This online, 6-week course will explore dimensions of Old Master paintings through EXPERIMENTATION!  Each participant will pick an Old Master painting to explore, moving through a charcoal analysis of the compositional structure, and ending up getting crazy, and experimenting with marking, color, and movement.  For those that love Old Master traditional painting, but want to […]

$450

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FOUNDATIONS, Morning, in-studio, Fall 2024

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 8-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and color. Working step-by-step we’ll develop […]

$520

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I thought I’d start by just by putting together a list of books and articles that I have found particularly relevant. When possible I’ll try to set up a link for them as well. Most of the links point to the books on the Amazon site which will give you additional information about  each one. Please click on the titles.

Forge, Andrew, Painting and the Struggle for the Whole Self

Gombrich, Ernst, The Story of Art

Hughes, Robert, The Shock of the New

Danto, Arthur, After the End of Art

Weintraub, Linda, To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet

Belting, Hans, Art History after Modernism

Gablik, Suzi, Has Modernism Failed

Gablik, Suzi, The Reenchantment of Art

Elkins, James, What Painting Is

Brenson, Mi chael, Acts of Engagement

Jacobs, Mary Jane, and Bass, Jacqueline, Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art

Becker, Howard S., Art Worlds

Shiner, Larry, The Invention of Art

Hyde, Lewis, The Gift

Dorfman, Geoffrey, Out of the Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School

Shiff, Richard, Between Sense and de Kooning

Shiff, Richard, Cezanne and the End of Impressionism

Shapiro, Meyer, Modern Art 19th and 20th Centuries

Sylvester, David, About Modern Art

Sylvester, David, Interviews with Francis Bacon

Berger, John, About Looking

Berger, John, The Shape of a Pocket

Berger, John, Keeping a Rendezvous

Berger, John and Berger Andreadakis, Katya, Titian, Nymph and Shepherd

Forge, Andrew, Soutine

Galenson, David

Galenson, David, Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth Century Art

Beuys, Joseph, What is Art?

Lipsey, Roger, An Art of Our Own, The Spiritual in Twentieth Century Art

Perry, Gil and Wood, Paul, Themes in Contemporary Art

Spurling, Hilary, The Unknown Matisse

Spurling, Hilary, Matisse the Master