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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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PAINTING THROUGH MODERN MASTERS: GIACOMETTI, SOUTINE & BOMBERG

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

"How do I move from a more skill-based mode of painting into a more personal, stronger, and exploratory way of working?"   This LIVE Eight Week online course is designed to give participants access to different ways of painting, moving from a more naturalistic and objective tradition to more Modern and subjective ways of working […]

$600

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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
Recurring

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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Abstraction as Discovery, in-studio

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

An 8-Week In-Studio Course.   How do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive, Creative & Playful Engagement? How do we court and dance with Spontaneity, Risk & Courage in the studio? This course has been taught for over 20 years - helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. The […]

$520
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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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Abstraction as Discovery — Online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

An 8-Week LIVE Online Course. How do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive, Creative & Playful Engagement? How do we court and dance with Spontaneity, Risk & Courage in the studio? Jordan has taught this course for over 20 years - helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. […]

$600

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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