Maja Ruznic, The Help (detail)
William Downs, Untitled (detail)
August 12 — 16
Beginning Oil Painting
Maja Ruznic
I August 12 — 16
II Automatic/Expressive
Drawing
O
William Downs
CONCEPT
Explore the luminosity of oil
paint! Learn the foundational skills and exciting
techniques of oil painting by working directly
from observation and photographs. Develop
fundamental skills to understand the qualities of
color. Making a painting a day, students move
past the preciousness of painting by developing
an invigorating painting process. Learn about
composition, value and color temperature.
Develop skills to create a sense of volume and
space by experimenting with still-life paintings
as well as working from a model. Spend some
time outside to study perspective and balance.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
Working from
observation, students learn to mix and match
colors, paint quickly with wet-on-wet techniques
as well as more slowly with techniques such as
glazing and scumbling. Learn to paint impasto
with a palette knife. The basics of painting the
human body are discovered by working from
a model.
ACTIVITIES
Each day, students work on
small projects and experiments, followed by
daily demonstrations. The subtleties of oil
painting through observation, experimentation
and group discussions are explored. Students
also work on different surfaces: canvas; paper;
and board.
FACULTY Maja Ruznic received her MFA from
California College of Arts. She shows nationally
and internationally and was written about in
New American Paintings by Anne Ellegood,
senior curator at the Hammer Museum, Venison
Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and Agenda
Magazine. Maja attended the Alfred and Trafford
Klots residency in France.
CONCEPT
Automatic drawing is a process
of entering an altered state of consciousness
to explore the worldview of an artist through
the medium of the hands. Gesture drawing is
one example of this process. Using automatic
drawing, an individual can connect with and
channel the sensibilities of such artists as Picasso
or Cézanne. This workshop offers lectures and
demos on artists and techniques to be explored.
Students learn the automatic drawing process
and how to merge it with a multitude of media
and mixed media.
MEDIA
& TECHNIQUES Students
investigate mixed media: charcoal and ink wash;
conte and chalk crayon; and oil and acrylic
paint on paper. Quiet music accompanies the
workshop throughout the week.
ACTIVITIES
This workshop is an immersive,
expansive and tactile experience. Participants
create works that explore the contentious and
the unconscious through automatic drawing
and figure drawing. Learn through prompts,
lectures and demonstrations of techniques.
FACULTY William Downs works in a range of
mediums, but focuses primarily on drawing. He
is a Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Georgia
State University in Atlanta. William received his
MFA from Mount Royal School of Art at MICA.
He is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in
Atlanta, GA.
www.williamedowns.com
www.ontheedgeofreason.com
TUITION $1,090
TUITION $1,090
TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,290 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,290
REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $75 REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $75
CODE D1120-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10 CODE D1119-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10
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