Gage Opdenbrouw – Larger Scale Landscape Painting: Studio Paintings and Outdoor Studies (Online); Mondays, May 22-July 17, 2023 (every other week)

Date: Mondays, May 22, June 5, June 19, July 3 & July 17, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM-1:30 PM Pacific Time, 1:30-4:30 PM Eastern Time, 6:30-9:30 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: All – instructor demos will be in oil

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For me, landscape painting has always been about space, and light, and scale beyond the human, so of course larger, more immersive paintings are a natural direction to explore.  There’s something about painting a space one can relate to physically, from the shoulder, and it’s often impractical to do so outdoors.

In this class we will explore making larger works in the studio that are anchored more in direct experience, drawings, and studies, than in photography.  Both quick larger works as well as more sustained and developed ways of painting will be explored, and the class will meet every two weeks to allow extra time for development of ideas.  For the first couple weeks we will focus on notation, and  developing a way of painting sketches and making drawings that can feed a larger work back in the studio.  From there we will us those works as a leaping off point to create larger paintings back in the studio, and share that process over several sessions.

5 sessions, 3 hours each, recorded, each class includes a slide talk and live demo, as well as focused feedback on works posted in the group.  The last session will be reserved primarily for critique and deeper discussion of each participants work throughout the term.

“A deep thematic thread runs through all of my work, it’s a ‘vanitas’ sort of message, to take the time to be present, to notice the magic of noticing, the richness of what’s right in front of us. I think that there is something radical in making work that is intimate in scale and quiet in its content and its aims–it strikes me as a tonic, an antidote, for our times, which are increasingly dehumanized, and in which people are living lives that are increasingly disembodied, mediated by a screen, and constantly stimulated. My art is about connecting with this world, this moment, as it is, as deeply as possible.” www.gageopdenbrouw.com