Painting the Interior Still Life

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome; some basic painting experience recommended.

9/11/2017-11/13/2017

6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$255.00

$230.00

$15.00

The painted subject matter of interiors was portrayed by many artists like Rembrandt, Velasquez, Degas, Monet, and Van Gogh, and continues to be an important subject today. In this workshop, you will learn how to relate to interior space within your own paintings.

Working from a still life set up, you will learn how light creates space on a two-dimensional surface. Additionally, you will learn to incorporate the walls, floor, and even the ceilings, into your compositions, moving beyond the still life. We will work on finishing a painting in each three-hour session. You will learn about relationships in color mixing, values, diversity of paint applications and the mining of edges in relation to space. You will also learn how to balance your main focal point, in our case the still life, with the activity of the space around.

This workshop will be great for students who have taken Still Life, Figure Painting, or Landscape Painting and you will get the benefit of exploring a different concept of space.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. How to balance a painting with many points of interest (multiple focal points).
2. Mixing Colors
3. Learning to see color temperatures, values, and how to translate them from life to a 2-dimensional panel in order to create a feeling of light and space in the painting.
4. Learning to balance what we see with what we feel in order to create a painting.

  • • Turpenoid *
  • • Medium: Liquin Original *
  • • Paper towels
  • • Pizza box (to transport wet paintings)
  • • Brushes *
  • • Oil Paints. Winton/Windsor & Newton colors (40 ml tube)suggested: Cadmium Yellow Light, Indian Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Medium, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Dioxazine Purple, French Ultramarine, Titanium White (150 ml), Ivory Black, Permanent Green, Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Indian Red, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber.

  • If you already have a color palette that you are familiar with and it works for you, please use these colors.

  • Items marked with an * are available for purchase in Fleisher’s school store. Members receive a 10% discount on art supply purchases.