Date: Thursdays, January 18 & 25, 2024
Time: 9:30 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time, 12:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time, 5:30-8:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolor welcome
A workshop designed to strengthen your landscape painting skills and methods, including a comprehensive look at the history of landscape painting and how it has evolved in a variety of media. The sessions will include presentations and descriptions of the methods, color palettes, materials, and aesthetics dominant in the history of European and American landscape painting. Four major types of landscape painting will be demonstrated over the two days: Renaissance glazing, Alla Prima (Plein Air) landscape, Impressionist approaches, and Modernist/Fauvist approaches.
Landscape projects for students will be assigned and will focus on hands-on landscape painting based on styles and media of the student’s choice. As project sources, the instructor will recommend and explain the use of master copies, photo reference or painting from life. All projects will be critiqued by the instructor on the Winslow Art Center Learning Platform. Open to all media (oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor) and levels of experience. A materials list will be provided.
Al Gury is an educator, writer and artist.
He is a Professor of Painting, Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Deeply committed to art education, he teaches many courses on painting, drawing and art history, as well as teaching art education methods to undergraduate and graduate students. National and international workshops are also a regular part of his engagement in art education. He is also a lecturer at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
As a writer, Al Gury has written three books for Penguin-Random House on art methods and art history, Alla Prima, Color for Painters and Foundations of Drawing. In addition, he has authored dozens of articles for museums and art publications in the US and Europe such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Artists and Craftsman Magazine and numerous other venues. Al’s specialties include color traditions and practice in painting, old master and contemporary painting methods, drawing and figure anatomy history and methods, traditions and practice in portrait and landscape and others.
Al Gury is a practicing painter, with regular one person exhibitions at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as galleries and museums in other states.
Very involved in community and social justice activities, Al is a cat foster parent and advocate for animal rescue and nursing care via the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society.
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