Painting students are part of an intense working environment where they can pursue their own direction. Painting courses and workshops encourage diverse practice and foster independent creative thinking and making. Students are part of a unique learning environment that allows for independent thought as well as collaboration and critique.
Good drawing skills and painting go hand-in-hand. This sequential course begins by covering basic drawing principles with an eye towards creating successful underdrawings and compositions. Using still life as subject matter, we will then explore aspects of the indirect painting method based on Flemish painting techniques. Discussions, examples, and demos … Read more
Start Date
01/26
Meeting Day
Tuesdays
End Date
05/04
Faculty
Santiago Hernandez
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
Designed for students who have some painting experience and wish to develop their work. Participants consider content, composition/format, color, surface, materials, and craft while exploring aspects of painting that interest them the most (e.g., experimentation with materials, conceptual and technical approaches, observational work). Individual attention and group discussions of student … Read more
Start Date
01/27
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
05/12
Faculty
Nancy McCarthy
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
This course takes a reductive approach to painting the head, experimenting with how little information is enough. We will investigate whether translating the head into simple, accurate shapes of color and value can create a truer likeness than a detailed description can. A drawing method will be introduced to help … Read more
Start Date
01/28
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
05/13
Faculty
Catherine Kehoe
Time
2pm–6pm
Credits
3
This remote course looks at how to create and appreciate abstract works of art. We will consider various art-historical origins for abstraction such as DADA, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual Art as jumping off points for various studio projects. These projects offer ways of exploring geometry, gesture, expressivity, structure and process in non-objective … Read more
Start Date
03/15
Meeting Day
Mondays
End Date
05/10
Faculty
James Lambert
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
1.5
