This course is in many ways an advanced foundations course. Students are exposed to working directly with the formal elements of a painting, such as line, shape, form, color, edge, texture, paint handling, and composition. Because the painting necessarily goes through many transformations during the course, students becomes directly familiar with painting as a flexible […]

PAINTING gives us an extraordinary way to explore our *being*. Where am I at? What’s my energy like – in this moment? How am I feeling, right now? What do I think about? What do I care about? What do I desire? Using the motif of still life we will explore possibilities of being. Engaging […]

PAINTING gives us an extraordinary way to explore our *being*. Where am I at? What’s my energy like – in this moment? How am I feeling, right now? What do I think about? What do I care about? What do I desire? In Part Two, we will continue to explore ways of working formally as […]

 "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 the more Modern and subjective ways of […]

An Eight Week Course. Life is tough -- I think that’s pretty clear to most of us. Things often occur in our lives that we have limited control over – and that can be difficult, to say the least. But one arena which is truly within the scope of our ability to make a difference […]

"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 […]

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 learn how to develop a convincing interior while working from observation, focusing on the establishment of architecture […]

Meeting LIVE Online for 8 sessions. 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, both formally and internally. What makes a painting strong and imbues it with presence? How […]