Elements of Still Life Painting 2 ~ Glazing & Scumbling - Karen Winslow
Enhancing color and creating mystery
Description: What is glazing? Glazing is the magic that pulls a painting together, intensifies color and helps the artist bring the work to a conclusion. Essentially, it is “tweaking”, adding those little touches that softens edges and improves the sense of depth and color harmony. A glaze is a thin veil of transparent color that is applied over a dry underpainting. An underpainting, which can be done in a monochrome (one color value scale) or a muted palette, is usually a little higher pitch than the finished painting. Because these veils are thin and transparent, the underpainting, with all its hard-fought form, shows through the glaze, just the color is enhanced and the pitch is slightly lowered. Color achieved through glazing offers greater luminosity than the more opague direct approach, because light not only reflects off the surface color, but also travels through the glazes . Scumbling, which is a form of glazing too, is translucent and uses thin veils of color with a little white. Scumbling can be used to add atmosphere, and can be applied over darker areas to make an optical gray and improve depth. I will demonstrate several forms of glazing, over a monochrome as well as over a muted underpainting. Please bring in dry works that you would like to glaze. If you have taken one of my monochromatic classes, this is a chance to see how to turn a black and white painting into color. The class is suited for intermediate painters.
Dates: March 1 and 2, 9am - 4pm
Fees: $200 for Members, $225 for Nonmembers
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Instructor Bio: Karen Winslow is a professional full-time artist, a featured artist in American Artist magazine, and a dynamic instructor. She studied at the Art Students League in New York with Frank Mason from 1973-1978. She moved to Vermont and established the WINSLOW ART STUDIO in 1979 with her husband, Jack Since that time she has been selling paintings and raising 5 children She teaches through demonstrations and one-on-one critiques, and her enthusiasm, years of experience, and joy of painting are contagious. Currently, she is represented by Sylvan Gallery in Clinton, CT; Powers Gallery in Acton, Massachusetts; G.C. Lucas Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; Gallery North Star in Grafton, Vermont; and Winslow Art Studio in Jeffersonville, Vermont.
website: www.winslowartstudio.com
blog: brushwork.blogspot.com
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