Patrick Lee – The Language of Painting: Pattern, Shape, and Color (Online); Mondays, September 7-28, 2026

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Mediums: Open to artists working in oil or acrylic – Patrick will work in oil
Level: All levels welcome
Class Dates: Mondays, September 7-28, 2026
Class Times:
• 9:30 am-noon Pacific Time
• 12:30 pm-3:00 pm Eastern Time
• 5:30 pm-8:00 pm UK Time

Get the most out of your studio time or Plein Air work 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

Participants may work in oil or acrylic.