Details

Meeting up at various sites in Beautiful Sunny Boulder! And Jordan’s Studio!

Starting at Chautauqua Park on June 9th.

For painters of all levels.

Course size limited to 7 participants.

In the mornings we will work in the traditional plein air approach – painting directly outdoors and developing our tonal relationships in response to the landscape.  Working in oils, we’ll explore color mixing — building tonal relationships to create a convincing sense of the landscape.  Along with developing naturalistic tone we’ll also experiment with mark, gesture & accident!, becoming intimate and engaged with the landscape.  Jordan will give daily demonstrations of playful and intuitive ways for exploring space and light.  

In the afternoons we will work indoors, in The Painting Project studio, on one canvas for the duration of the workshop. We will be using our morning paintings as source material for an ongoing and improvisational discovery of abstract painting. As the painting develops, we’ll experiment with making a mess! Tolerating chaos! And exploring how to find order amidst the chaos.

What we’ll cover in the afternoon Process of Abstraction:

 How to PLAY with Paint!
 What can this STUFF Do? What’s physically possible?
 Ways of MAKING MARKS and HANDLING PAINT.
 How to EXPERIMENT with FORMAL ELEMENTS (e.g. Line, Color, Shape, Edge, Value, Texture,
etc.)
 How to RISK and make a MESS!
 How to TOLERATE CHAOS.
 How to receive the chaos and discover HIDDEN ORDER.
 What it means to COLLABORATE with the Painting.
 How to DISCOVER and STRENGTHEN COMPOSITION.
 Discovering and Clarifying Your Own PERSONAL CREATIVE TEMPERAMENT and Way of
Painting.

Directness and spontaneity will be encouraged! Participants will receive individual instruction within a creative and supportive atmosphere.

Sliding scale tuition is available for Practitioners experiencing financial hardship.

To register simply click on the “+” sign below.