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Aimee Erickson – Still Life Series: Composition (Online); Tuesdays, November 23-December 21, 2021

This class was held in the past and is no longer available for registration. Please view our Online Course Catalog for current class listings.

Date: Tuesdays, November 23-December 21, 2021 (5-week course)
Time: 9:00-11:30AM Pacific Time/12:00-2:30 PM Eastern Time/5:00-7:30 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylics

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Composition, editing, mark-making: three integral aspects of painting. In still life we have the ability to arrange the objects in real life, in addition to painting what we want to see. Learn how to feel the direction and weight of a composition, and gain freedom to simplify and choose how you paint, rather than following (admittedly sometimes useful) “rules.” Start where you are and progress within the structure Aimee provides.

Like most of Aimee’s classes, this one is open to all levels. Aimee encourages her students to adapt assignments to their own level. She wants you to be challenged and engaged without being overwhelmed, and to build on what you already know.

Class sessions are a mix of lecture/demo, paint-along, and instructional review of student work.

Aimee Erickson is a representational oil painter. Born in Paris (1967) and raised in Sunnyvale, California, she started oil painting at age eight. After earning a BFA in Visual Communication Design/Illustration, she developed a warm, inviting pictorial voice grounded in traditional realism, informed by the principles of design, and inspired by nature and human experience. She has also studied with a number of prominent painters. Her approach to painting tends to be very direct and experimental, without a set routine, and leans toward the abstract; she uses brushes mostly, palette knives frequently, and sometimes a bigger scraper or straightedge.
Aimee teaches painting, drawing, and color theory at venues nationwide and overseas. She has a particular interest in what enables or inhibits artistic progress. How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see? How does expectation influence our ability to perceive?
Aimee Erickson - Still Life Series: Composition (Online); Tuesdays, November 23-December 21, 2021

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