Classes
Foundations in Drawing & Oil Painting – Evening
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class 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 composition. Then working step-by-step we’ll develop a […]
Abstraction as Discovery
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis course is designed to provide an opportunity for sustained intuitive exploration. Participants will be working on one canvas (36″x42″) for the entire course as a means of developing a working understanding of a variety of formal elements (line, shape, edge, color, etc.). Going through this painting class will provide a basis for understanding abstraction […]
Flowers!
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COHow does one paint a bunch of flowers and make them alive? Working in oils with the tradition of floral still life, we will explore different ways of attending to the motif, using a variety of exercises based on the work of master painters. We will examine and work with the methods of Manet, Van […]
Foundations in Drawing and Oil Painting – Morning
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class 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 composition. Then working step-by-step we’ll develop a […]
Abstraction as Discovery: Working on Paper
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COUsing a non-achievement oriented practice, we will investigate the possibility of a dialogue between our inner lives and the life of the image. We will be working with basic questions of abstraction and how to experiment with formal elements such as composition, line, shape, mark, edge and value as a way of EXPLORING NEW TERRITORY. […]
Painting Through Modern Masters – Session One
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class is designed to give participants access to different ways of working, moving from a more naturalistic and objective tradition to the more Modern and subjective ways of working found in the twentieth century avant-garde. Looking closely at various modern masters, we will work with a variety of exercises based on their explorations […]
Foundations in Drawing and Oil Painting — Evening
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class 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 […]
Foundations in Drawing and Oil Painting – Morning
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class 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 […]
Painting and Awareness
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COWhat is the nature of my seeing? What is the nature of my marking? What does awareness have to do with any of it? And what does awareness have to do with making a “good painting”? What is a “good painting” anyway? For that matter, what is awareness? This course will explore the relationship between […]