STILL LIFE: Exploring Ways of Being, online
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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 with a repeating motif, this course will provide a range of approaches as an opportunity to expand our ways of working. Through this expanded formal range, we explore our own, inner, expanded life.
This course uses formal variety and experimentation – varying materials, mark, speed, observational focus – as a way of discovering our own inner directions and state of being. We will engage questions related to a variety of attitudes, from objective tonal observation to gestural tactile projection, from the analytic to the intuitive, from the cautious to the explosive.
The Weekly Syllabus:
Week 1: Using graphite pencil and eraser, we’ll explore the placement and location of the forms and spaces between the forms, using both gestural marking and analytic measuring together, creating a personal relationship to “finding”.
Week 2: Using charcoal, chamois, and eraser, we’ll continue to explore the placement and location of the forms and spaces between the forms, using both gestural marking and analytic measuring together, creating a personal relationship to “finding”.
Week 3: Working with oils, we’ll use a limited palette of ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and white, and explore fast gestural marking as a means for investigating the form, space and light of the still life.
Week 4: Continuing to use the limited palette of ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and white, we’ll explore in a slow, contemplative way, the form, space and light of the still life.
Week 5: Using a limited palette of white, black, phthalo green, and alizarin crimson, we’ll work and mix both a quick, gestural manner, together with a slower, more contemplative attitude, to explore the form, space and light of the still life.
Week 6: For the last 3 sessions we’ll work on one canvas, keeping the painting open in a state of curious exploration. Participants are invited to use a full palette. Everyone is encouraged to keep the painting open to exploration and not be concerned with finishing the painting by the end of the course.
Week 7: Continuing the painting.
Week 8: Continuing the painting.
During each class there will be time to share the work we’re doing during the session. We’ll be sharing our work through PADLET.
If 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.
A 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.
All sessions will be streamed in high definition. All sessions will be recorded, archived and available for repeated viewing.
A Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration.
To register simply click on the “+” sign below.