Dates: Mondays, February 9-March 2, 2026
Time: 10:00 am-12:30 pm Pacific Time / 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eastern Time / 6:00 pm-8:30 pm UK Time
Level: Open to all levels
Medium: Oil or acrylic
Get the most out of your studio time by keeping things simple, to-the-point, and powerful. Your ability to analyze visual data, break it down to its basic components, and record it, is the key to your development as a visual artist. This ability, combined with a lexical/visual language that can help you analyze and convey these ideas, is an essential step in discovering your own personal aesthetic.
Topics will include:
– Making a lot of work (Quantity over Quality) – By focusing on a process rather than a particular end result, our subconscious mind (the root of our true selves) is given an opportunity to come to the surface.
– Focusing on design – the overall abstract relationships in your painting are what matter, and what have the most impact.
– Realizing that the creative and the critical (analytical) aspects of our practice require two different ways of thinking that must be considered separately.
– Working with no specific end in mind, and allowing ideas to develop.
– Use of the Notan in design and creative thought (improvisation)
– Solid drawing and values as a basis for “looseness”
– Subjective color
– Breakdown and building back up of the image
– An understanding of the creative concept in our work
Please note that students will work from their own photos.
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