Ordinary Made Extraordinary: The Art Of Still Life, Sept. 4-27, 2015
Ordinary Made Extraordinary—The Art of Still Life
a Juried Competition and Exhibition Sept. 4- 27, 2015
Explore your environment. Manipulate objects, composition and light.
Transform the ordinary to become extraordinary.
Opening Reception Friday September 11, 2015: 6:30 -8:30pm
JUROR Leah Lopez, a New York City artist originally from Northern New Mexico. She is known for her breathtaking paintings that capture elegance and romance. With gallery representation across the states and students flocking to her Atelier to study, she maintains the same hard working schedule to develop her latest body of work. More than ever, Leah’s paintings are passionately inspired by her life and experiences on this riveting, creative journey.
The Art of the Still Life in Oil with Gregg Kreutz
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.
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.
Summer 2015 Adult Classes – Watercolor & Drawing/Painting
Watercolor – 8 Weeks – Intermediate and Up
June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22 • 9 am – noon
Instructor: Eileen Neville
$320 members/$350 non-members
Watercolor is a truly diverse medium. Explore techniques – learn washes, wet on wet painting, glazing and dry brush methods. We will begin to understand the properties of pigments and when to use them properly.
More advanced students move beyond the basics, creating a series of more complex paintings and completing their own interpretations of projects presented in class.
Watercolor is always challenging, fresh and new.
Materials list on registration.
Register with your credit card via PayPal using the button below or download the registration form here & mail with your check to The Art Guild.