Who doesn’t love a good story?

In this 7-session class over 9 weeks, we will look at how artists tell a story with a sense of intimate connection, through painting interior  scenes or wide-open spaces. Looking to both our art historical ancestors as well as contemporary artists for inspiration, we will discover a variety of technical approaches that help convey or evoke narrative.

In the weekly projects we will draw from our own personal histories and focus on composition, subject matter and technique with assignments that address domestic spaces, details of the still life and the exaggerations of a panorama.

How does your subjective point of view, which is also colored by memory get infused info a painting? Glazing can be a way to sway a viewer into seeing a scene through a certain light.

Isolating different elements of artmaking, like composition and subject matter can breathe new life into your painting practice.. Featured artists this session include: Richard Diebenkorn, Pierre Bonnard, Catherine Maize, Joan Brown, Henri Fantin LaTour, George Braques, Darren Watterson, Martin Johnson Heade, Maki Na Kamura, Hung Liu and others.

Format of class 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 project images before we review on Friday in Zoom. Demonstrations, lecture topics and weekly assignments are given in Zoom and recorded in case you miss class.