Beginning Drawing Class

  Contour Drawing
  Form and Mass-Grease Pencil
  Value Study-Charcoal (material list)

 Beginning Painting Class
     Learn how to pick out paint
     Learn how to pick out brushes
     Material list

 Earth Tone Exercises
   Drawing in Paint
   Mix Medium
   Value Study
   Linear Extension
   3 pt. Movements
   Oak tags / Surfaces

    
Color Exercises
   Complimentary Colors
   Actual Color Intensity
   Equal Value
   Planes Center Space Advancing & Isolate Negative   
   Advancing & Receding Planes (movements)
   Warm over Cool
   Mixing Primaries to match Earth Tones
   Using color theory mix opposites, knock down with white and bring back up with color, using color theory.
  Grissallo
   Full grey values study, warm grays, cool grays
   Color over gray values, match in equal value over color
   Surface Preparation   

Copying Old Master Paintings

Series of Self Portraits

Grissale

Painting Nature Outdoors

Beginning exercises use the following method:

1. Set Up- several still life arranged (according to the amount of students)

Some are stationery other can be placed on a revolving table (photo insert).

Objects are to be organic but simple such as painted bottles, rusty metal, cloth, dishes, etc. In other words ordinary objects but ones with character and interesting form and distinction. Parts are arranged to challenge the student to use the motif to explore special relationships between function, form and negative space.

This way progression can be evolved and at the end of each session a class critic is given in which students and teacher discuss day's work, which is displayed in semi circle around front of room.

2. Growth and Understanding: Starting with a drawing that plastic elements are used. There are a number of exercises, which the student successively does and the self merges from this process. A super reality is achieved and the objects and their internal relationships take on a very personal idiom. As Morandi said "there is nothing more abstract than the real world" Inner space in a plastic means frees the painter to go beyond photo realism and find himself in what lies before him.
3. A student's individuality thus emerges because no two people see things the same way. The formal element of painting forces the student to see this beyond and explore these potentials. Down the road he can paint anything he wants to. To often the word "still life" has a connotation of being uninteresting and dead. Actually that is a misconception. The use of it is dead killed by uninteresting teaching methods that mistake the potential of this classic epoch.
4. List of materials will be given to you.