FLOWERS, ABSTRACTION & CONSCIOUSNESS, online
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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?!)
Taking 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.
Through 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.
We 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.
Week 1: Exploring through Drawing.
Week 2: Exploring through Drawing.
Week 3: Exploring with Black and White paint.
Week 4: Exploring with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna.
Week 5: Exploring with a Full Palette.
Week 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.
Week 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.
Week 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.
Each class session, in addition to the demonstrations, will include time for participant sharing and feedback on Padlet.
Painting, as a form of discovery, becomes a vehicle for inner exploration and a metaphor for living.
All sessions will be streamed in HIGH DEFINITION, providing greatly increased visual acuity of the painted surface and demonstrations.
Sliding scale tuition is available for participants facing financial challenges.
All sessions will be recorded, archived and available for repeated viewing.
A Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration.
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