Gregg Kreutz Archives - The Art Guild of Port Washington, Inc.

Painting the Floral Still Life with Gregg Kreutz – Sept. 16 & 17, 2017

by Grace Lucarelli | Mar 20, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops

Painting the Floral Still Life with Gregg Kreutz
Saturday September 16 and Sunday, September 17, 2017
9:30am-4:30pm

Gregg Kreutz returns to The Art Guild with a workshop that will focus on painting the floral still life. Flowers with paired with objects and fruit, turning them into compelling dramas of light and shadow. The focus will be on revealing the significant and obscuring the less meaningful.

This workshop will explore how to create effects with paint strokes and palette knife swipes. Students will strive to make the canvas not only a depiction of observed reality, but also a celebration of the beauty of the flower.

Painting the floral still life is not only a worthy subject in its own right, but it can also provide vital learning skills for all other genres – landscape, portrait, interior and figure. Each of these is made easier by a familiarity with the art of the still life.

Materials list will be provided.

Though other mediums are welcome, the workshop will only be taught with, and demonstrated in, oils.

Gregg Kreutz is an award winning painter and author of the classic artist’s guide, Problem Solving for Oil Painters. After graduating from NYU, he pursued his training as a painter at the Art Students League of New York, winning a merit scholarship. He studied with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale and most significantly, David Leffel. Gregg teaches drawing and painting at the Art Students League as well as workshops throughout the US and around the world.

For more info on Gregg, please visit his website.

Still Life in Oil – All Levels – with Frances Ianarella

by Grace Lucarelli | Nov 25, 2016 | Archive

Still Life in Oil – All Levels

6 Thursdays: July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug 3 & 10
10:30 am – 1:30 pm

Instructor: Frances Ianarella
Fee: $240 Members/$270 Non-members
Open to 8 students (adults)

This class will focus on painting the still life in oil, in a contemporary, realist manner – how to begin a painting, blocking in the subjects, the role of light and shadow, how the background affects the painting and how to add the drama that will take your painting from good to great. A still life will be set up for students to paint.

Frances Ianarella is an award winning artist who has studied with David Leffel, and with Gregg Kreutz at the Art Students League and in his private studio. She has exhibited work in many venues in New York and Long Island. For more info on Frances and to see more of her work, visit her blog.

All levels welcome. A materials list will be provided. The Art Guild has easels for students to use.

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The Art of the Still Life in Oil with Gregg Kreutz

by Grace Lucarelli | Jul 25, 2015 | Past Classes and Workshops

Saturday September 19 and Sunday, September 20, 2015
9:30am-4:30pm

This workshop will focus on drama in still life. How to turn simple props – pots, fruit, flowers, baskets – into compelling dramas of light and shadow. The focus will be on showcasing the significant and modifying or obscuring the less meaningful.

We will be exploring how to create effects with paint strokes, palette knife swipes and rag swoops. How to, in other words, make the canvas not only a depiction of observed reality, but also a celebration of abstract paint beauty.

Still life is not only a worthy subject in its own right, but it can also provide vital learning skills for all other genres. Landscape, portrait, interior and figure. Each of these is made easier by a deep familiarity with the art of the still life.

Materials list will be provided.