Matteo Caloiaro – Painting Street Scenes and Neighborhoods (Online); Mondays, July 21-August 4, 2025

Dates: Mondays, July 21-August 4, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM-12:30 PM Pacific Time, 1:00-3:30 PM Eastern Time, 6:00-8:30 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylics

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This three-week course will be about learning to paint street scenes and neighborhoods through demonstrations, lectures and critiques. Students will learn how simplify the complexities in suburban/urban environments into coherent images, and how to interpret perspective as it applies to the structures that are found in these types of environments. Simplification will be the emphasis, but refinement will also be discussed and demonstrated. Students may work from life or photo reference.

Course Outline

Week 1: Quick studies on small supports:

• Instructor lecture on materials
• Instructor slide presentation/lecture on simplification and perspective
• Instructor slide presentation/lecture using preliminary sketches to simplify and organize values
• Instructor demo using direct painting (alla prima) method
• Students make 2-3 small paintings that take about 3 hours (or less) each

Week 2: Painting with a resolved drawing and underpainting

• Critique on work from week 1
• Instructor demo painting a street scene with a resolved drawing and underpainting (indirect painting method)
• Students make 1 painting using indirect method

Week 3: Adding cars and other wheeled vehicles:

• Critique on work from week 2
• Lecture/Presentation on basic observational perspective
• Instructor demo on painting street scene with cars/wheeled vehicles
• Students make 1-2 paintings incorporating cars or other wheeled vehicles