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Painting as a Path of Awareness: A 5-Week Intensive

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

The act and practice of painting is a transformative experience.  A painting is not simply a picture. A painting is a weaving of energy. If you've been feeling the urge to paint -- or perhaps you’ve been painting for some years but haven’t yet found your own personal, authentic way -- this course is structured […]

$290.00
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FIGURE DRAWING

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

This course will focus on developing skills to master the proportions and structure of the figure.  You know what they say, "If you can draw the figure..."  We will work with quick poses, exploring the "feel" and rhythm of the body, as well as long poses, emphasizing accuracy, specificity and physical structure.  Both line quality […]

$550.00
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INTERIORS: Making Space, Part One

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

One essential and magical aspect of painting is conjuring the experience of space on a flat canvas. In this two-part, eight-week course, we will work on creating an interior space through drawing and painting. In Part One, participants will learn how to develop a convincing interior while working from observation, focusing on the establishment of […]

$300.00

PAINTING & SPIRIT: A One-Day Workshop

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

The act and practice of painting is a transformative experience.  A painting is not simply a picture. A painting is a weaving of energy. If you've been feeling the urge to paint -- or perhaps you’ve been painting for some years but haven’t yet found your own personal, authentic way -- this one-day workshop is […]

$90.00

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FOUNDATIONS, Morning

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 […]

$400.00

PAINTING, POWER & PRESENCE: A Recontextualization of the Painting Journey

Penn Studio School

What is the deeper meaning of Painting today?  When we engage in the activity of painting what exactly are we doing, and what does it actually matter?  Contemporary artist and teacher, Jordan Wolfson, will be giving a talk on the history and prehistory of Two-Dimensional Handmade Image Making.  The scope will move through the pre-Modern […]

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FOUNDATIONS, Morning

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

This in-studio, ongoing, 7-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 […]

$420.00
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PLAYING with OLD MASTERS, online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

This Online, 7-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.  […]

$525

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GROUP CRIT – Fall 2023

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

Meeting LIVE Online for 8 sessions, every other Tuesday. September 5, 19, October 3, 17, November 7, 21, December 5, 19. Jordan will be facilitating a group critique for painters who are interested in exploring together deeper aspects of painting, what it means for each of us to paint, and how to strengthen our work, […]

$520.00
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FLOWERS!, in-studio

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

How does one paint a bunch of flowers and make them ALIVE? Working in oils within the tradition of floral still life, I'll be demonstrating step-by-step, how to set up a convincing rendition of fresh flowers. This 8-week course will provide an opportunity to learn how to paint flowers.  The first four weeks will focus […]

$510

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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