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 online class, you will learn how to relate to interior space within your own paintings.

We will discuss the method for setting up a still life and the optimum lighting and work from still lifes you set up in your own home. You will learn how light creates space on a two-dimensional surface, and how 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 session, or sitting of two hours. 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 in how to balance your main focal point, in our case the still life, with the activity of the space around.

This class will be great for students who have taken still life, figure painting, or landscape painting but you will get the benefit of exploring a different concept of space.

What will you learn in this workshop?
1. How to balance a painting with many points of interest (multiple focal points).
2. Mixing Colors
3. Learning to see colors temperature, 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.