Adult Programs | Adult Workshops | Painting
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Gage invites nationally-known and local artists to present intensive painting workshops that enable artists to hone their artistic process and master their technical challenges. Gage offers classical, expressive and abstract painting workshops in oil-, acrylic- and water-based media, covering a range of subject matter. Workshops vary from one weekend to three weeks in duration; each workshop day is typically six hours long and includes both instructor demonstrations/lectures and private easel coaching. Plein-air landscape painting workshops are taught off-site in scenic parks and colorful Seattle locales, and certain summer landscape workshops are based in spectacular Northwest locations.
INTERMEDIATE
INTERMEDIATE PAINTING
WA1023 | UNDERSTANDING MATISSE:
COLOR, EXPRESSION & ESSENCE
COLOR, EXPRESSION & ESSENCE
11/29-12/3, Mon-Fri, 9:30am-4:30pm [5 days]
Working on a series of exercises and paintings in oil or acrylic, we, like Matisse, try to discover the essential character of each painting and its subjects through color, expression and composition. Color for Matisse was based on intuition rather than the color theories popular at the time as he searched for a new personal radiance in his art. As a colorist his genius was not in using color to imitate light, but to create it. While never a Cubist, he developed his own way of abstracting to get under the surface of the subject for a truth greater than mere appearances. This, along with studies in line, composition and his innovations in painterly marks, are our primary concerns as we paint and draw the figure and other subjects. A $15 materials fee is payable to the instructor.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
WA1025 | COMBINED MEDIA ASSEMBLAGE & 3-D PAINTING
12/6-12/10, Mon-Fri, 9:30am-4:30pm [5 days]
Advance your visual vocabulary by expanding the painting process from the limitations of the two-dimensional visual plane. Learn to craft three-dimensional compositions using paint, wood, wax, metals, wire, mesh, plaster wood, embedded sculptural relief and found objects on multiple surfaces to bring your paintings into a vivid high relief. These projects test and expand your relationship with your process, as you transform your observations and feelings to a wide range of traditional and nontraditional media. Learn to create texture, movement, depth, and to unite discordant objects to create cohesive and unified compositions. To complete your complex assemblages, you may work as late as you wish each night.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
WA1101 | CLASSICAL FIGURE PAINTING
1/3-1/7, Mon-Fri, 9:30am-4:30pm [5 days]
Build your artistic vocabulary as you work sequentially to complete one finished figure painting under the tutelage of Aristides, instructor of the Classical Atelier at Gage. You develop a preliminary drawing to ensure accuracy and likeness, crate a monochromatic study to analyze shape, tone and composition and transfer your drawing to canvas or panel as you execute your painting in full color. Lectures and individual instruction aid your artistic progress.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
WA1102 | STILL-LIFE PAINTING
1/3-1/14, Mon-Fri, 9:30am-4:30pm [10 days]
A leading figure in contemporary American realism, Morra brings his love of still-life painting and teaching to this intense program. While you complete one multi-layered 10-day painting, your daily one-hour alla prima color studies teach you to work simply, rapidly and accurately. For your longer painting, you create a preliminary drawing on paper, transfer it to the canvas, underpaint in monochrome and, finally, apply full color in layers. Morra discusses glazing and scumbling as amendments to opaque painting, and presents daily demonstrations and art history lectures as a reference for your work.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
WA1104 | PORTRAIT PAINTING IN OIL
1/10-1/14, Mon-Fri, 9:30am-4:30pm [5 days]
Remarkable portrait paintings are imbued with a sublime quality—the physical likeness supports an emotional interpretation of the model. Gervits focuses on both aspects of making compelling portraits. Gervits shares his method of painting, beginning with an oil sketch, progressing to the time-honored procedure of multilayered, indirect painting, then adding a two-color underpainting in full tonal scale. You work on two paintings, one using the direct method of painting and one using the indirect method. Color and composition are emphasized as you work from a strong underpainting with opaque color and transparent glazes.
See also Portrait Drawing taught by Gervits 1/3-1/7.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
See also Portrait Drawing taught by Gervits 1/3-1/7.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS