Date: Tuesdays, October 8-29, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM-1:00 PM Pacific Time, 1:30-4:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:30-9:00 PM London Time
Level: All (experience in chosen medium recommended)
Medium: All (Gage will work in pencil and ink wash, or perhaps charcoal, when drawing, and oils when painting)
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About 5 years ago, I began to paint peonies every spring. My favorite flower, they are lush beyond belief, and quite fleeting in their glory, a combination I find terribly poignant.
As they change so quickly, I had to develop a simple method of working with them, and what I arrived at was something like a small scale portrait—a light flower on a dark ground.
These paintings are for me an important marker of time and seasons, as well as a meditative, grounding process in the studio: I know that the flower could be completely different tomorrow, or the light, or both, and so the whole process is a great exercise in distilling observation and simplifying complex form.
We will work from life in this class, and with whatever fresh flowers are easily available.
Ultimately this class is about a meditative approach to attention, and not about flower paintings as much as it is about setting up a simple motif that can serve as a framework for deep attention and observation.
All media are welcome in this class, I will be working mostly in pencil and ink wash, or perhaps charcoal, when drawing, and oils when painting. The most important thing is that you are using media that are familiar to you. Included below are the materials you are likely to see me using in demos etc.
The first two weeks will include exercises in drawing and working from master paintings as source and inspiration.
All media are welcome in this class, I will be working mostly in pencil and ink wash, or perhaps charcoal, when drawing, and oils when painting. The most important thing is that you are using media that are familiar to you. Included below are the materials you are likely to see me using in demos etc.
Born in 1977 and raised in Northern California, 
