Still Life Primer: Form, Values & Planes - Karen Winslow
Description: By painting still life, the artist learns the basics—form, values and planes. A good foundation is paramount to learning to paint or draw. Without it, the artist will flounder, but with it the artist has a springboard to grow and expand. Simple geometric shapes: the sphere, the cylinder, the cube and the cone must be mastered. Every object in nature is composed of combinations of these basic forms, and learning to recognize this is important. Understanding this, will give the artist the freedom and confidence to paint anything in a realistic manner (still life, landscape, portrait, figure, interior & working from your imagination). In this class, we will work with simple still life, concentrating on value relationship and spatial relationship by: using a tonal (value) scale from white to black; learning to simplify by working in mass, or value shapes, (instead of filling in lines) and thinking in terms of 5 planes of light. All levels. Oils or pastels.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, January 12 & 13, 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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