Jordan Wolfson
Abstraction as Discovery: Working on Paper
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COUsing a non-achievement oriented practice, we will investigate the possibility of a dialogue between our inner lives and the life of the image. We will be working with basic questions of abstraction and how to experiment with formal elements such as composition, line, shape, mark, edge and value as a way of EXPLORING NEW TERRITORY. […]
Open Evening Studio: INTERIORS IN BLACK AND WHITE (AND YELLOW)
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COA new series. Please join us for an evening gathering, presenting a new body of work. Five large paintings exploring the relationships between perception, marking and awareness.
Painting Through Modern Masters – Session One
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class is designed to give participants access to different ways of working, moving from a more naturalistic and objective tradition to the more Modern and subjective ways of working found in the twentieth century avant-garde. Looking closely at various modern masters, we will work with a variety of exercises based on their explorations […]
Foundations in Drawing and Oil Painting — Evening
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and composition. Then working step-by-step we’ll develop a […]
Foundations in Drawing and Oil Painting – Morning
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and composition. Then working step-by-step we’ll develop a […]
Painting and Awareness
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COWhat is the nature of my seeing? What is the nature of my marking? What does awareness have to do with any of it? And what does awareness have to do with making a “good painting”? What is a “good painting” anyway? For that matter, what is awareness? This course will explore the relationship between […]
Level I: Journeying
Journeying is an 8-session webinar series providing demonstrations of a variety of exercises to locate one’s own creative temperament in order to clarify and strengthen presence in one’s work. Access to the webinars is available for the entire set of 8 or for individual sessions. The first webinar will take place on Tuesday, January 14, […]
Painting Through Modern Masters — Session Two
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class is designed to give participants access to different ways of working, moving from a more naturalistic and objective tradition to the more Modern and subjective ways of working found in the twentieth century avant-garde. Looking closely at various modern masters, we will work with a variety of exercises based on their explorations […]
Foundations in Drawing and Oil Painting – Morning
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COThis art class is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and composition. Then working step-by-step we’ll develop a […]
Composition as a Discipline
The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time COAmong the many aspects to making a successful, strong and original image, composition is primary and key. At the same time that there are myriad rules to making a successful composition, there is also a basic, felt mystery why some things work and others don't, and finding one's own particular way of composing. This course […]