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SUMMARY:Abstraction as Discovery\, online
DESCRIPTION:An 8-Week LIVE Online Course. \nHow do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive\, Creative & Playful Engagement? \nHow do we court and dance with Spontaneity\, Risk & Courage in the studio? \nI’ve taught this course for over 20 years\, and every time an adventure! – helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. \nThe course is geared for all levels. 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 and ceaselessly changeable medium. \nI’ll be giving weekly demonstrations of various aspects of the journey into non-representational abstraction\, looking at examples from Modern Abstract masters such as de Kooning and Joan Mitchell\, and discussing writings from my teacher\, Patrick Ahearne\, related to our shared exploration. \n“A gesture in paint\nis not simply a gesture in painting –\nit is an event in the world.”\n— Paul Goodman\n \nA familiarity with the process of painting in its more physically dense and muscular aspects gives the student a context and experience to draw upon no matter what their future direction\, abstract or representational\, from observation or imagination or memory. \nThe Weekly Syllabus: \n\nWeek One: Introduction to the Painting Journey. Reviewing Patrick Ahearne’s text.  Jumping in and beginning.\nWeek Two: Exploring Paint Handling and Making a Mess. Now what?  Looking at Mondrian and Joan Mitchell: Figure and Ground and the Activation of Space.\nWeek Three: Composition as a Creative Discipline. Understanding Composition through the lens of Cezanne\, Analytic Cubism and de Kooning.\nWeek Four: Bringing our Lived Experience to Bear even Amidst the Morphing. Exploring Aspects of Mass\, Weight\, Space\, Light\, Movement.  Looking at Late Monet\, Philip Guston and Arshile Gorky.\nWeek Five: After the Catharsis. What does Fine Tuning look like? What does it mean to nurture the image?  Looking at Matisse and Diebenkorn.\nWeek Six: The Possibilities of Narrative and Systemic Thinking. Looking at Joan Snyder\, Terry Winters and Brice Marden.\nWeek Seven: Ways of Being\n\nWeek Eight: The Ineffable Power of Painting.  How to Navigate by the Heart.  Reading the words and looking at the work of Milton Resnick.\n\nPainting\, as an open-ended form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. In this way\, Abstraction as Discovery becomes a foundation course for an understanding of painting as a life practice and a long-term journey. \n\n  \nDuring each class there will be time to share the work we’re doing during the session. We’ll be sharing our work through PADLET.  \nIf you are not already a member of Padlet\, please join in order to access the wall. To post on the Padlet wall\, find your column with your name\, click on the “+” on the top of the column. A window will pop up – click on the 3 pink dots in the bottom right corner\, and scroll down to “photo library” and that will allow you to post from your phone. \nA Mighty Networks Group page will also be provided for posting our work during the week\, for supportive community and creative sharing. I will be doing a weekly review\, usually on Sunday afternoons. Feel free to post your work\, comment on each other’s posts\, post related topics\, etc. PLEASE POST ONLY IN OUR COURSE ROOM. You can find our course room by going to the menu bar on the left side of the screen. Click HERE. \n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in high definition.  All sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below. \n\n\n 
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/abstraction-as-discovery-online-2/2025-11-05/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:FLOWERS\, ABSTRACTION & CONSCIOUSNESS\, online
DESCRIPTION:This course explores how a free range of response to what we see – often called ‘abstraction’ – can give us access to a deeper experience and felt understanding of Consciousness.  (Whoa…what?!) \nTaking fresh flowers for our motif – something unabashedly beautiful – helps draw us into its spell and facilitates a spontaneous response\, going beyond what we normally might find appropriate. \nThrough a series of exercises\, in drawing and painting\, each participant will explore a range of responses to their flowers.  The later class sessions will work with aspects of wholeness in relation to the previous exercises\, bringing our work into strong composition and form. \nWe will explore through a range of play\, experimenting with different speeds of marking\, different attitudes towards depiction (geometry\, tonality and edges)\, and different attitudes towards accident versus control.  All demonstrations with paint will be in oils.  Participants are welcome to use whichever materials is most fitting for their situation. \nWeek 1: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 2: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 3: Exploring with Black and White paint. \nWeek 4: Exploring with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. \nWeek 5: Exploring with a Full Palette. \nWeek 6: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 7: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 8: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nEach class session\, in addition to the demonstrations\, will include time for participant sharing and feedback on Padlet. \nPainting\, as a form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. \n\nA Mighty Networks Group page will be provided for posting our work\, for supportive community and creative sharing. There will be a weekly review and commentary of student postings on the Mighty Networks. Click HERE.\n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in HIGH DEFINITION\, providing greatly increased visual acuity of the painted surface and demonstrations. \n\nSliding scale tuition is available for participants facing financial challenges. \nAll sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below.
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/flowers-abstraction-consciousness/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:GROUP CRIT - Fall 2025\, online
DESCRIPTION:Meeting LIVE Online for 8 sessions\, every other Tuesday.\n \nSeptember 2\, 16\, 30\, October 14\, 28\, November 11\, 25\, and December 9. \nJordan 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. \nWhat makes a painting strong and imbues it with presence? \nHow does one clarify one’s own direction and path as a painter? \nHow can we share our work together and create a vital sense of community? \nFor many of us\, we paint because we need to.  There is something in the act of painting that deeply enlivens\, brings us close to truth of our lives – that in-the-moment sense of being present\, engaged\, alive.  There is the possibility of this deepening of engagement becoming our ongoing way of working\, and bringing to our studio practice a fullness of being that empowers our work\, formally and energetically.  How does this happen?  This question will be an ongoing part of our conversation during our sessions. \n  \n“Painting is impact.”  — Avigdor Arikha \n  \nIn a personal\, honest\, friendly and supportive atmosphere\, we will be gathering online for five sessions\, every other week.\n \nThe group will be limited to 12 participants.  Participants are expected to be engaged in their studio practice in an ongoing way\, and are intermediate\, advanced or professional. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below.
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/group-crit-fall-2025-online/2025-11-11/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:Abstraction as Discovery\, online
DESCRIPTION:An 8-Week LIVE Online Course. \nHow do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive\, Creative & Playful Engagement? \nHow do we court and dance with Spontaneity\, Risk & Courage in the studio? \nI’ve taught this course for over 20 years\, and every time an adventure! – helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. \nThe course is geared for all levels. 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 and ceaselessly changeable medium. \nI’ll be giving weekly demonstrations of various aspects of the journey into non-representational abstraction\, looking at examples from Modern Abstract masters such as de Kooning and Joan Mitchell\, and discussing writings from my teacher\, Patrick Ahearne\, related to our shared exploration. \n“A gesture in paint\nis not simply a gesture in painting –\nit is an event in the world.”\n— Paul Goodman\n \nA familiarity with the process of painting in its more physically dense and muscular aspects gives the student a context and experience to draw upon no matter what their future direction\, abstract or representational\, from observation or imagination or memory. \nThe Weekly Syllabus: \n\nWeek One: Introduction to the Painting Journey. Reviewing Patrick Ahearne’s text.  Jumping in and beginning.\nWeek Two: Exploring Paint Handling and Making a Mess. Now what?  Looking at Mondrian and Joan Mitchell: Figure and Ground and the Activation of Space.\nWeek Three: Composition as a Creative Discipline. Understanding Composition through the lens of Cezanne\, Analytic Cubism and de Kooning.\nWeek Four: Bringing our Lived Experience to Bear even Amidst the Morphing. Exploring Aspects of Mass\, Weight\, Space\, Light\, Movement.  Looking at Late Monet\, Philip Guston and Arshile Gorky.\nWeek Five: After the Catharsis. What does Fine Tuning look like? What does it mean to nurture the image?  Looking at Matisse and Diebenkorn.\nWeek Six: The Possibilities of Narrative and Systemic Thinking. Looking at Joan Snyder\, Terry Winters and Brice Marden.\nWeek Seven: Ways of Being\n\nWeek Eight: The Ineffable Power of Painting.  How to Navigate by the Heart.  Reading the words and looking at the work of Milton Resnick.\n\nPainting\, as an open-ended form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. In this way\, Abstraction as Discovery becomes a foundation course for an understanding of painting as a life practice and a long-term journey. \n\n  \nDuring each class there will be time to share the work we’re doing during the session. We’ll be sharing our work through PADLET.  \nIf you are not already a member of Padlet\, please join in order to access the wall. To post on the Padlet wall\, find your column with your name\, click on the “+” on the top of the column. A window will pop up – click on the 3 pink dots in the bottom right corner\, and scroll down to “photo library” and that will allow you to post from your phone. \nA Mighty Networks Group page will also be provided for posting our work during the week\, for supportive community and creative sharing. I will be doing a weekly review\, usually on Sunday afternoons. Feel free to post your work\, comment on each other’s posts\, post related topics\, etc. PLEASE POST ONLY IN OUR COURSE ROOM. You can find our course room by going to the menu bar on the left side of the screen. Click HERE. \n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in high definition.  All sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below. \n\n\n 
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/abstraction-as-discovery-online-2/2025-11-12/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:FLOWERS\, ABSTRACTION & CONSCIOUSNESS\, online
DESCRIPTION:This course explores how a free range of response to what we see – often called ‘abstraction’ – can give us access to a deeper experience and felt understanding of Consciousness.  (Whoa…what?!) \nTaking fresh flowers for our motif – something unabashedly beautiful – helps draw us into its spell and facilitates a spontaneous response\, going beyond what we normally might find appropriate. \nThrough a series of exercises\, in drawing and painting\, each participant will explore a range of responses to their flowers.  The later class sessions will work with aspects of wholeness in relation to the previous exercises\, bringing our work into strong composition and form. \nWe will explore through a range of play\, experimenting with different speeds of marking\, different attitudes towards depiction (geometry\, tonality and edges)\, and different attitudes towards accident versus control.  All demonstrations with paint will be in oils.  Participants are welcome to use whichever materials is most fitting for their situation. \nWeek 1: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 2: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 3: Exploring with Black and White paint. \nWeek 4: Exploring with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. \nWeek 5: Exploring with a Full Palette. \nWeek 6: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 7: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 8: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nEach class session\, in addition to the demonstrations\, will include time for participant sharing and feedback on Padlet. \nPainting\, as a form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. \n\nA Mighty Networks Group page will be provided for posting our work\, for supportive community and creative sharing. There will be a weekly review and commentary of student postings on the Mighty Networks. Click HERE.\n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in HIGH DEFINITION\, providing greatly increased visual acuity of the painted surface and demonstrations. \n\nSliding scale tuition is available for participants facing financial challenges. \nAll sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below.
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/flowers-abstraction-consciousness/2025-11-13/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:Abstraction as Discovery\, online
DESCRIPTION:An 8-Week LIVE Online Course. \nHow do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive\, Creative & Playful Engagement? \nHow do we court and dance with Spontaneity\, Risk & Courage in the studio? \nI’ve taught this course for over 20 years\, and every time an adventure! – helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. \nThe course is geared for all levels. 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 and ceaselessly changeable medium. \nI’ll be giving weekly demonstrations of various aspects of the journey into non-representational abstraction\, looking at examples from Modern Abstract masters such as de Kooning and Joan Mitchell\, and discussing writings from my teacher\, Patrick Ahearne\, related to our shared exploration. \n“A gesture in paint\nis not simply a gesture in painting –\nit is an event in the world.”\n— Paul Goodman\n \nA familiarity with the process of painting in its more physically dense and muscular aspects gives the student a context and experience to draw upon no matter what their future direction\, abstract or representational\, from observation or imagination or memory. \nThe Weekly Syllabus: \n\nWeek One: Introduction to the Painting Journey. Reviewing Patrick Ahearne’s text.  Jumping in and beginning.\nWeek Two: Exploring Paint Handling and Making a Mess. Now what?  Looking at Mondrian and Joan Mitchell: Figure and Ground and the Activation of Space.\nWeek Three: Composition as a Creative Discipline. Understanding Composition through the lens of Cezanne\, Analytic Cubism and de Kooning.\nWeek Four: Bringing our Lived Experience to Bear even Amidst the Morphing. Exploring Aspects of Mass\, Weight\, Space\, Light\, Movement.  Looking at Late Monet\, Philip Guston and Arshile Gorky.\nWeek Five: After the Catharsis. What does Fine Tuning look like? What does it mean to nurture the image?  Looking at Matisse and Diebenkorn.\nWeek Six: The Possibilities of Narrative and Systemic Thinking. Looking at Joan Snyder\, Terry Winters and Brice Marden.\nWeek Seven: Ways of Being\n\nWeek Eight: The Ineffable Power of Painting.  How to Navigate by the Heart.  Reading the words and looking at the work of Milton Resnick.\n\nPainting\, as an open-ended form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. In this way\, Abstraction as Discovery becomes a foundation course for an understanding of painting as a life practice and a long-term journey. \n\n  \nDuring each class there will be time to share the work we’re doing during the session. We’ll be sharing our work through PADLET.  \nIf you are not already a member of Padlet\, please join in order to access the wall. To post on the Padlet wall\, find your column with your name\, click on the “+” on the top of the column. A window will pop up – click on the 3 pink dots in the bottom right corner\, and scroll down to “photo library” and that will allow you to post from your phone. \nA Mighty Networks Group page will also be provided for posting our work during the week\, for supportive community and creative sharing. I will be doing a weekly review\, usually on Sunday afternoons. Feel free to post your work\, comment on each other’s posts\, post related topics\, etc. PLEASE POST ONLY IN OUR COURSE ROOM. You can find our course room by going to the menu bar on the left side of the screen. Click HERE. \n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in high definition.  All sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below. \n\n\n 
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/abstraction-as-discovery-online-2/2025-11-19/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:FLOWERS\, ABSTRACTION & CONSCIOUSNESS\, online
DESCRIPTION:This course explores how a free range of response to what we see – often called ‘abstraction’ – can give us access to a deeper experience and felt understanding of Consciousness.  (Whoa…what?!) \nTaking fresh flowers for our motif – something unabashedly beautiful – helps draw us into its spell and facilitates a spontaneous response\, going beyond what we normally might find appropriate. \nThrough a series of exercises\, in drawing and painting\, each participant will explore a range of responses to their flowers.  The later class sessions will work with aspects of wholeness in relation to the previous exercises\, bringing our work into strong composition and form. \nWe will explore through a range of play\, experimenting with different speeds of marking\, different attitudes towards depiction (geometry\, tonality and edges)\, and different attitudes towards accident versus control.  All demonstrations with paint will be in oils.  Participants are welcome to use whichever materials is most fitting for their situation. \nWeek 1: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 2: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 3: Exploring with Black and White paint. \nWeek 4: Exploring with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. \nWeek 5: Exploring with a Full Palette. \nWeek 6: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 7: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 8: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nEach class session\, in addition to the demonstrations\, will include time for participant sharing and feedback on Padlet. \nPainting\, as a form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. \n\nA Mighty Networks Group page will be provided for posting our work\, for supportive community and creative sharing. There will be a weekly review and commentary of student postings on the Mighty Networks. Click HERE.\n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in HIGH DEFINITION\, providing greatly increased visual acuity of the painted surface and demonstrations. \n\nSliding scale tuition is available for participants facing financial challenges. \nAll sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below.
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/flowers-abstraction-consciousness/2025-11-20/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:GROUP CRIT - Fall 2025\, online
DESCRIPTION:Meeting LIVE Online for 8 sessions\, every other Tuesday.\n \nSeptember 2\, 16\, 30\, October 14\, 28\, November 11\, 25\, and December 9. \nJordan 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. \nWhat makes a painting strong and imbues it with presence? \nHow does one clarify one’s own direction and path as a painter? \nHow can we share our work together and create a vital sense of community? \nFor many of us\, we paint because we need to.  There is something in the act of painting that deeply enlivens\, brings us close to truth of our lives – that in-the-moment sense of being present\, engaged\, alive.  There is the possibility of this deepening of engagement becoming our ongoing way of working\, and bringing to our studio practice a fullness of being that empowers our work\, formally and energetically.  How does this happen?  This question will be an ongoing part of our conversation during our sessions. \n  \n“Painting is impact.”  — Avigdor Arikha \n  \nIn a personal\, honest\, friendly and supportive atmosphere\, we will be gathering online for five sessions\, every other week.\n \nThe group will be limited to 12 participants.  Participants are expected to be engaged in their studio practice in an ongoing way\, and are intermediate\, advanced or professional. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below.
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/group-crit-fall-2025-online/2025-11-25/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:Abstraction as Discovery\, online
DESCRIPTION:An 8-Week LIVE Online Course. \nHow do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive\, Creative & Playful Engagement? \nHow do we court and dance with Spontaneity\, Risk & Courage in the studio? \nI’ve taught this course for over 20 years\, and every time an adventure! – helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. \nThe course is geared for all levels. 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 and ceaselessly changeable medium. \nI’ll be giving weekly demonstrations of various aspects of the journey into non-representational abstraction\, looking at examples from Modern Abstract masters such as de Kooning and Joan Mitchell\, and discussing writings from my teacher\, Patrick Ahearne\, related to our shared exploration. \n“A gesture in paint\nis not simply a gesture in painting –\nit is an event in the world.”\n— Paul Goodman\n \nA familiarity with the process of painting in its more physically dense and muscular aspects gives the student a context and experience to draw upon no matter what their future direction\, abstract or representational\, from observation or imagination or memory. \nThe Weekly Syllabus: \n\nWeek One: Introduction to the Painting Journey. Reviewing Patrick Ahearne’s text.  Jumping in and beginning.\nWeek Two: Exploring Paint Handling and Making a Mess. Now what?  Looking at Mondrian and Joan Mitchell: Figure and Ground and the Activation of Space.\nWeek Three: Composition as a Creative Discipline. Understanding Composition through the lens of Cezanne\, Analytic Cubism and de Kooning.\nWeek Four: Bringing our Lived Experience to Bear even Amidst the Morphing. Exploring Aspects of Mass\, Weight\, Space\, Light\, Movement.  Looking at Late Monet\, Philip Guston and Arshile Gorky.\nWeek Five: After the Catharsis. What does Fine Tuning look like? What does it mean to nurture the image?  Looking at Matisse and Diebenkorn.\nWeek Six: The Possibilities of Narrative and Systemic Thinking. Looking at Joan Snyder\, Terry Winters and Brice Marden.\nWeek Seven: Ways of Being\n\nWeek Eight: The Ineffable Power of Painting.  How to Navigate by the Heart.  Reading the words and looking at the work of Milton Resnick.\n\nPainting\, as an open-ended form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. In this way\, Abstraction as Discovery becomes a foundation course for an understanding of painting as a life practice and a long-term journey. \n\n  \nDuring each class there will be time to share the work we’re doing during the session. We’ll be sharing our work through PADLET.  \nIf you are not already a member of Padlet\, please join in order to access the wall. To post on the Padlet wall\, find your column with your name\, click on the “+” on the top of the column. A window will pop up – click on the 3 pink dots in the bottom right corner\, and scroll down to “photo library” and that will allow you to post from your phone. \nA Mighty Networks Group page will also be provided for posting our work during the week\, for supportive community and creative sharing. I will be doing a weekly review\, usually on Sunday afternoons. Feel free to post your work\, comment on each other’s posts\, post related topics\, etc. PLEASE POST ONLY IN OUR COURSE ROOM. You can find our course room by going to the menu bar on the left side of the screen. Click HERE. \n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in high definition.  All sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below. \n\n\n 
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/abstraction-as-discovery-online-2/2025-11-26/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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SUMMARY:FLOWERS\, ABSTRACTION & CONSCIOUSNESS\, online
DESCRIPTION:This course explores how a free range of response to what we see – often called ‘abstraction’ – can give us access to a deeper experience and felt understanding of Consciousness.  (Whoa…what?!) \nTaking fresh flowers for our motif – something unabashedly beautiful – helps draw us into its spell and facilitates a spontaneous response\, going beyond what we normally might find appropriate. \nThrough a series of exercises\, in drawing and painting\, each participant will explore a range of responses to their flowers.  The later class sessions will work with aspects of wholeness in relation to the previous exercises\, bringing our work into strong composition and form. \nWe will explore through a range of play\, experimenting with different speeds of marking\, different attitudes towards depiction (geometry\, tonality and edges)\, and different attitudes towards accident versus control.  All demonstrations with paint will be in oils.  Participants are welcome to use whichever materials is most fitting for their situation. \nWeek 1: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 2: Exploring through Drawing. \nWeek 3: Exploring with Black and White paint. \nWeek 4: Exploring with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. \nWeek 5: Exploring with a Full Palette. \nWeek 6: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 7: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nWeek 8: Working with work from the previous weeks we’ll turn out attention to compositional structure\, rhythm and nuance to bringing the work to wholeness. \nEach class session\, in addition to the demonstrations\, will include time for participant sharing and feedback on Padlet. \nPainting\, as a form of discovery\, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living. \n\nA Mighty Networks Group page will be provided for posting our work\, for supportive community and creative sharing. There will be a weekly review and commentary of student postings on the Mighty Networks. Click HERE.\n\n\nAll sessions will be streamed in HIGH DEFINITION\, providing greatly increased visual acuity of the painted surface and demonstrations. \n\nSliding scale tuition is available for participants facing financial challenges. \nAll sessions will be recorded\, archived and available for repeated viewing. \nA Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration. \nTo register simply click on the “+” sign below.
URL:https://jordanwolfson.com/calendar/flowers-abstraction-consciousness/2025-11-27/
LOCATION:The Painting Project Studio Online\, Mountain Time\, CO
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Classes,Events,Intermediate,Webinar,Weekly
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