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Constructing and Deconstructing the Landscape
September 7, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Date: Wednesday-Friday, September 7-9, 9:30am-1:30pm
Class Fee: Members: $290/ Non-Members: $300
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“How can I think more abstractly?” This workshop is designed to address that question by closely investigating how the formal elements in a landscape painting serve the whole.
Students will start with small black and white studies of simple landscape compositions, exploring form and directionality. By changing shape, adding, subtracting, and moving elements around, artists will better understand both what makes a dynamic composition and how these very fundamental elements impact mood and narrative. The next step is to incorporate color, employing similar basic compositions by mixing and experimenting with hue, value, and tone, emphasizing subtle combinations and a color field approach. By painting several versions of the same image, students will familiarize themselves with the elements involved, moving to a new study to explore any desired changes. By the end of the workshop students will have acquired tools that enhance the intuitive process by bringing key decision-making moments into the conscious mind.
