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Dates: Wednesdays, March 5-26, 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: Open to artists working in gouache, oil or acrylics (not watercolor) – Richard will work in oil and gouache
* please note that because of United States daylight savings on March 9, classes on March 12, 19 & 26 will be held at 5-7:30 PM London Time
In this course we will be looking at Mark Rothko and his work, especially in relation to Contemporary Landscape Painting. We will also be exploring Rothko’s visual language and its lineage, from Turner and Monet to Matisse and the influence these Artists had on Rothko and his paintings..
With lots of demos and painting time, this course will be an exploration into creating depth, atmosphere and emotional/philosophical resonance in our work. We will look at how color relates, using a complimentary palette to discover how ‘Color Fields’ work. Along with an in depth look into perspective and building atmosphere, we will also focus on the balance of geometrical structure and visual poetry/painterly expression.
The course will not teach you how to paint like Rothko but instead draw influence from his work.
Richard will be working in both Gouache and Oil. Participants can work in any paint medium, except watercolor.
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$295.00
Richard K. Blades was born in 1978 and raised in East Anglia. His passion for painting began whilst living in Cornwall in his mid-twenties, working under the influence of professional painters based in the Rame Peninsula. Although academically trained, obtaining a BA in Fine Art from the University of Plymouth, Richard regards himself as a self-taught painter. Having grown up in East Anglia, much of Richard’s work is based on and inspired by the skies and landscapes of the area but having traveled widely, his paintings take on a universal quality. Along with the landscape, he is also a still-life painter, fascinated by the quiet corners of studios and how light falls upon objects and plants. Richard, who recently moved to Norfolk after a decade in London, says of his work
“I am primarily an expressive landscape painter working in the English Romantic tradition. I feel a deep connection to the landscape and the artists who also chose the sky, sea, and land as their sources of inspiration. Turner, Constable, Seago, Daubigney, and Courbet are my personal favourites. The gaps between generations and hundreds of years matter little. Regardless of what has changed in this world, the technological advancements, and societal shifts, the landscape is always there, as something eternal, the ever-changing muse, always present, yet never the same. ”
Richard’s work is regularly exhibited in Cornwall and London and is held in private collections, both in the UK and abroad.
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