CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR PAINTERS:
FALL/WINTER 2024-2025:
A Place in Time: Autumn into Winter: Painting the Seasonal Landscape
4 weeks online via zoom, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4 & 12/11/2024
10:30am-1pm Pacific
class is recorded, enrollment is now open, please assure yourself a spot using the link below!
“Wise One”, 18x24, oil on panel, circa 2017, private collection
ENROLL AT THE LINK BELOW!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-place-in-time-autumn-into-winter-painting-the-seasonal-landscape-tickets-1047029692997?aff=oddtdtcreator
This 4 session online class will be oriented toward making landscape paintings that are rich with the feeling of our season--both the present, fall into autumn, the fallen leaves, the first frosts, the shortenings days, the long evenings--but also the wistful glance back over our shoulder toward summer.
The intention and goal of this class is to develop and encourage a sensitivity to abstraction, color, shape, and painted surface, that evokes the large spaces of both landscape and memory, as well as the seasons of our lives.
We will meet live on zoom, Wednesday mornings, from 10:30am-1pm pacific.
Although we WILL meet the day before thanksgiving, if you are unable to attend, the class will be recorded.
Each class session will include a slide lecture, with images of my own work and of inspiring painters past and present, a live demo, time to work in our own studios together, and, finally, last but not least, a 24/7 online forum that will one can post to for feedback from the instructor and one's peers at any time.
Session 4 will consist primarily of more in depth critique of student work.
All media are welcome, the instructor will paint in oils, but drawing exercises in charcoal, pencil and ink wash will also be suggested. Differing strategies for outdoor notation, work outdoors, work in the studio, work from observation, large scale work, small scale work, all will be discussed.
Each class is recorded and will be available for viewing typically within 24 hours, and the online interface will allow for you to download form a selection of timelapses, videos, and other content that may be of interest.
“Estero Americano #8”, oil on panel, 2022, private collection
“North From Goat Rock, Sundown”, 6”x6”2021, available
EARLY BIRDS CLUB: MONDAY MORNING LANDSCAPE PAINTING SESSIONS WITH INSTRUCTION
11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2.
10 AM-1PM —A DIFFERENT COASTAL LOCATION EACH WEEK
You have to want to paint to get up and out on a winter monday morning, and there is nothing like a self-selecting group for enthusiasm! This will be very fun, despite the challenges and frustration of working outside. Plus, how can you go wrong with the Sonoma Coast and lower Russian River?
We will meet 4 Mondays, at different locations, all within a 10-15 minute drive from Jenner, to be announced prior to each week. You'll get an address for GPS and any add'l information you may need. Keep in mind screenshotting maps is always a good idea as many coastal areas have poor reception.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/early-birds-club-monday-plein-air-landscape-painting-group-tickets-1073937127859?aff=oddtdtcreator
“Afternoon at Willow Creek, August”, oil on panel, 8x10, 2022
Still Life Painting: Keep it Simple, Let it Sing
STILL LIFE PAINTING: KEEP IT SIMPLE, LET IT SING
4 SESSIONS LIVE VIA ZOOM, Tuesdays 11/19, 12/3, 12/10 & 12/17, 10:30am-1pm Pacific time.
This class meets for 4 sessions, live on Zoom, and will be recorded.
(note: ticket interface is confusing-the price is $300 for all 4 sessions plus access to the group and recordings for 60 days after class ends. Just buy a ticket for the first day and you are all set. sorry for any confusion!!)
Each class features a lecture, live demo, and discussion of student work as well as relevant works from great painters historical and contemporary.
There is a 24 hour online forum where participants can share work, thoughts, and inspiration. Class size is limited to ensure time for in depth feedback and critique for each student.
Enroll at the link below, scroll down for fuller description.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/still-life-painting-keep-it-simple-let-it-sing-tickets-1063926435609?aff=oddtdtcreator
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Often, when conceiving of a motif or a concept for a painting, today’s artists become caught up in overly complex ambitions and thoughts.
Most often, a painting sings not because of its ambition and complexity, but its simplicity and clarity.
By keeping our concept simple, we can make space for the material, for search, for noticing, for attentive and responsive observation — of shape, color, tone, value, edge, surface.We can let things breathe and begin to have subtle feelings about them.
In this class we will explore how simplicity of concept can open the way for more and deeper attention, and more clarity of execution.
We will focus, each session, on a simple idea, with enough space, air, silence and time to consider and edit.Think of a still life set up like a simple musical format, we will be thinking of painting as a more poetic process, working deeply from observation, but also attempting to distill our noticing into a moment of light and form that is crafted and persuasive.
We will be concerned with quality of observation, rather than a smooth ride to a predictably mildly pleasing painting that lacks and real risk or revision.
We will be producing studies, not paintings. We’ll drink in all the wonderful things we notice, when we make time...
Hope you can join us.
Critique Group, Winter 2025, begins November 21!
Open for enrollment now!
Meets every two weeks, enrollment limited to 10 artists per 6 week session. We will keep a witing list limited to 5 students in case of cancellations. If you would like to be kept on the waiting list for the next session as well just let me know.
Longer spacing between classes allows more time in the studio between classes for more painting, more struggle, more questions asked, more chances taken, more insights or glimmers…more wrestling matches to discuss.
Sessions are recorded, in the event you are in a radically different time zone or are simply waylaid by daily life and can’t make a session.
Enroll at the link below!! And if you are too late, get on the waiting list (limited to 5)
“Lower Cabin Window, Reflection, With Jawbone, Fir, Rain” 12”x12”, 2022, private collection
“Oakland Studio 34”, oil on panel, 2018-2020, private collection
These groups are quite global and national and it is really an honor to facilitate them to create a space and a convcersation: supportive, thoughtful, non-pretentious dialogue around your painting practice.
Sessions fill early, but we keep a waiting list in the event of cancellations!
Isolation in the studio is a fact of life for most serious painters, and the solitude is often positive, but it can be hard to judge our own work with clear eyes. A supportive and articulate environment to discuss your ongoing efforts with the brush is helpful, and in my opinion, critical. In better times, I make a point to visit my friend’s studios regularly, to see what they are working on, how its going, what they’re satisfied with and what they’re not, and simply how they work.
This group is intended to be a meeting for a critique group of dedicated painters who work in the studio regularly. Participating artists will upload their work previous to the class session, and I will go over each work submitted, as if we were sitting in a classroom with all the paintings in front of us.
I lead the discussion, but class participation and dialogue is strongly encouraged, really, it’s the whole point. I learned as much from my peers as from my teachers in art school, not to mention afterward, and the same is even more true now. These groups are global in their draw and are a privilege to facilitate…
Thoughtful and articulate dialogue around your work can be helpful to clarify your ideas and how you are pursuing realizing them, this group provides just that from a group of serious and thoughtful peers.