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Monday figures at ArtServe- August 23


Vesna will be our model tomorrow morning.
Stressing the gesture under the details AGAIN! 

Cool artists of the week:

Stephen Early "to look is to think," Leonardo Da Vinci
http://www.stephenearly.com/index.html

Fred Dalkey
http://www.paulthiebaudgallery.com/

Ryan Woodward (Look at his gestures!)
http://www.ryanwoodwardart.com/index.html


Boca Raton Museum of Art Painting Classes
One pigment will be spotlighted each week
Painting classes Beginning to Advanced
Sept. 7 ONE LOVE
Value - mono-chromatic painting and the power of underpainting.
Anatomy of a shadow, grisalle and verdacchio.
CADMIUM YELLOW LIGHT

Sept. 14  THE SYMPHONY 
Composition. - Origins and practice of the golden mean. Cezanne’s compositional tools
CADMIUM ORANGE

Sept. 21 MOODY DAY 
Experiment with analaogous color palettes. Create moods and distance with color.
Perspective 101
Cadmium Scarlet

Sept. 28 OPPOSITES ATTRACT 
Playing with the complements. Lovely semi-neutrals and ying - yang balance.
CADMIUM RED MEDIUM

Oct. 5 DIFFERENT STROKES!
Brush stroke techniques. Scrumbling, blending, wet on wet, impasto, sgraffito, stippling, tonking, ragging, scraping. Create dominance and conflict with varied strokes.
QUINACRIDONE ROSE

Oct. 12 PUTTING YOUR ARM INTO IT!
Gesture - Brush Strokes - empahsize texture and direction - dominance of detail. 
MAGENTA

Oct. 19 HIDE ‘n SEEK 
Transparent vs. opaque. Glazing techniques and mediums.Variety and dominance of  edges.ULTRAMARINE VIOLET

Oct. 26 LUSCIOUS LAYERS - PLAYING WITH THE PALETTE KNIFE
Manipulating the paint with knives and other texture tools. Building texture in your paintings.
ULTRAMARINE BLUE


Painting classes Intermediate to Advanced
Tuesdays 12:30 - 3:30
Sept. 7 WORKING WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
The camera distorts light. Learn how to recognize it’s limitations and how to compensate for them.
CADMIUM YELLOW LIGHT

Sept. 14  THE LANDSCAPE AS ABSTRACT
Composition and value lessons demonstrated by redesigning landscape photos.
CADMIUM ORANGE

Sept. 21 SPACE
Explore multiple tools to build depth in your paintings. Representational and abstract.
Cadmium Scarlet

Sept. 28 CREATING CONFLICT IN YOUR PAINTINGS
Too much of a good thing is “not so good.” Create balance through conflict of subject, value, color and texture. Notan lesson in ying/yang.
CADMIUM RED MEDIUM

Oct. 5 SIZE MATTERS
Learn how to “blow up” a small image with the grid system. Natural patterns can be quite abstract.
QUINACRIDONE ROSE

Oct. 12 PUTTING YOUR ARM INTO IT!
Building energy with gestural strokes. Demonstration of a gesture painting.  
MAGENTA

Oct. 19 HIDE ‘n SEEK - EDGES! 
Transparent vs. opaque. Glazing techniques and mediums.Variety and dominance of  edges.ULTRAMARINE VIOLET

Oct. 26 LUSCIOUS LAYERS - PLAYING WITH THE PALETTE KNIFE
Manipulating the paint with knives and other texture tools. Building texture in your paintings.
ULTRAMARINE BLUE

Classes start Sept. 7

Monday classes at ArtServe will run through the middle of October

See you tomorrow!


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