Three Day Intensive Painting Clinic
Karen Winslow
The Landscape, Still Life and Portrait Connection
For all levels of painters
May 31 - June 2, 2008
$250
This studio and plein air workshop was created to help all levels of artists learn the interrelationship between painting landscapes, still lifes and portraits. Each discipline helps the others.
Painting the still life improves your knowledge about painting form, which enhances your ability to paint portraits and figures. In turn, painting landscapes teaches you to use atmospheric perspective and color harmonies, and this, when applied to still life and portrait painting, will add a greater sense of space and depth to your work. Learning to analyze any subject matter (whether still life, landscape or portrait) in terms of planes, values and universal principles teaches you to solve visual problems and gives you greater freedom and confidence.
Karen's goal is to teach why and how to translate what you see into paint, creating a believable illusion of light, form, space, depth and movement. This gives a foundation, or springboard, which you can use long after this workshop ends, to explore composition and express your own unique voice. It also frees you to discover that understanding these principles will give your paintings greater solidity and power.
All painting done in this workshop is from life, not photos. We will practice simplifying objects into 5 planes of light, painting in mass (not filling in lines), composing in rhythms, using a tonal (value) scale, and drawing directly with a loaded brush, to maintain a unified relative light effect where the “whole” is greater than the sum of its parts. In addition, we will learn about color/value mixing, value relationships, spatial relationships, mass to detail relationships and edges. Oils & Pastels preferred.
This is an alla prima class where we will be producing small, fast, loose studies, not super finished work. This will help you understand the principles described above, and learn to select essential information. Be prepared to do 2 different paintings a day.
Karen Winslow is a professional full-time artist, a featured artist in American Artist magazine, and a dynamic instructor. She studied at the Art Students League in New York with Frank Mason from 1973-1978. She moved to Vermont and established the WINSLOW ART STUDIO in 1979 with her husband, Jack. Since that time she has been selling paintings and raising 5 children. She teaches through demonstrations and one-on-one/group critiques. Karen's enthusiasm, years of experience, and joy of painting are contagious!
