WINTER AND SPRING CLASSES

Jan 26th - Feb 16th      Thursdays 9:30am - 12pm           4 Sessions                           $80

Mar  1st - Mar 22nd      Thursdays 9:30am - 12pm           4 Sessions                           $80

Apr 12th - May 17th      Thursdays 9:30am - 12pm           6 Sessions                         $120

"NEGATIVE PAINTING"

Jan 26th - Feb 16th     Thursdays 9:30am - 12pm           4 Sessions                         $80

Welcome to the art of negative painting everyone. I love this technique. We will be exploring this mystical world through several approaches.  Wet into Wet, Wet into Dry and Working with Glazes. Seeing shapes and understanding our staining and non staining pigments will play a large part in this as well. An exciting way to enter 2012!!

Session #1 - We will be doing white daisies with with wet washes of backround color. Let's start on an 8x10 to get familiar with this negative painting technique.

Session #2 - Choose repeated, but varied white flower shapes you know well (magnolias, cherry or apple blossoms etc). Bring in your sketched compositions and your references and we will mix up some luscious backround colors for a wet into wet wash that will bring these flowers to life by painting around them!  Greens and violets will be on the menu for color.....Reminder to bring in your Principles and Elements of Design Sheets.

Session #3 - I am finishing up last week's painting with light washes of violets and  greens and then using some darks for the centers and outlinings here and there. Hopefully you'll receive it tomorrow....On to our next negative piece!! This will be glazing wet onto dry over a light mixed wash. If you like you can prepare your papers with some masking splatterings. I am working on an 8 1/2"x 8 1/2" paper doing grasses. Choose the shapes you would like to work with.We start with one, two or three shapes we like and build the painting as we go....Very relaxing technique - I may have to wake you when it's time to go!

Session #4 - Looking into the marshes this week was such a delight. The hooded mergansers and mallards are waiting for spring to bring the bullrushes'  fresh growth, but in the meantime they provide such a mosaic of tangled organic shapes. Perfect for negative painting. Look about for some good references of cattails. If you would rather choose another subject matter that you are attracted to bring it along. We want to take the negative painting one step further by amalgamating it into our positive painting - much like I did with the grasses after I had painted them negatively....