This class will focus on sensitive and meditative attention as a way of seeing more deeply, bringing more feeling to the painting process
About this Event

STILL LIFE PAINTING: KEEP IT SIMPLE, LET IT SING

4 SESSIONS LIVE VIA ZOOM, Tuesdays 11/19, 12/3, 12/10 & 12/17, 10:30am-1pm Pacific time.

This class meets for 4 sessions, live on Zoom, and will be recorded.

(note: ticket interface is confusing-the price is $300 for all 4 sessions plus access to the group and recordings for 60 days after class ends. Just buy a ticket for the first day and you are all set. sorry for any confusion!!)

Each class features a lecture, live demo, and discussion of student work as well as relevant works from great painters historical and contemporary. There is a 24 hour online forum where participants can share work, thoughts, and inspiration.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

Often, when conceiving of a motif or a concept for a painting, today’s artists become caught up in overly complex ambitions and thoughts.

Most often, a painting sings not because of its ambition and complexity, but its simplicity and clarity.

By keeping our concept simple, we can make space for the material, for search, for noticing, for attentive and responsive observation — of shape, color, tone, value, edge, surface.We can let things breathe and begin to have subtle feelings about them.

In this class we will explore how simplicity of concept can open the way for more and deeper attention, and more clarity of execution.

We will focus, each session, on a simple idea, with enough space, air, silence and time to consider and edit.Think of a still life set up like a simple musical format, we will be thinking of painting as a more poetic process, working deeply from observation, but also attempting to distill our noticing into a moment of light and form that is crafted and persuasive.

We will be concerned with quality of observation, rather than a smooth ride to a predictably mildly pleasing painting that lacks and real risk or revision.

We will be producing studies, not paintings. We’ll drink in all the wonderful things we notice, when we make time...

Hope you can join us.