Fridays online in Zoom 10 am to 11:30 am

August 18th to October 6th NO CLASS SEPT. 15th

Mise en Scène: the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play or the setting or surroundings of an event or action

This 7-week session explores how artists have approached a variety of subjects with specific technique to create beautiful paintings. The featured areas in our exploration including lighting, scale, atmospheric conditions, and composition.  I selected the artists we are looking to for inspiration this session, for their unique voice in conveying traditional motifs like trees, coastlines, urban landscapes, verdant flora and delicious still lifes. We will focus in on specific bodies of their work, Van Gogh’s cypress trees, Monet’s coastlines cliffs, Yvonne Jacquette’s nighttime scenes and Martin Johnson Heade’s, hummingbird/botanicals, and Will Cotton’s decadent desssert landscapes. The final week is spent painting your own “artist’s” choice. The class is designed to connect us to artists working in the past and contemporary times while expanding our own abilities through making.

Format of class begins with a 90 minute Zoom session on Fridays and includes weekly painting assignments done on gessoed paper and some research. Students send a photo of their completed assignments to me via email by Thursday at 4pm. I send a group email with all the photos before we meet to discuss on Friday in Zoom. Demonstrations, lecture topics and weekly assignments are given in Zoom and recorded in case you miss class.