Patrick Lee-Simplify Your Process: Improve your Painting & Find Your Voice

https://patrickleefineart.com/

Get the most out of your studio time by keeping things simple, to-the-point, and powerful. Your ability to analyze visual data, break it down to its basic components, and record it, is the key to your development as a visual artist. This ability, combined with a lexical/visual language that can help you analyze and convey these ideas, is an essential step in discovering your own personal aesthetic. Topics will include: - Making a lot of work (Quantity over Quality) - By focusing on a process rather than a particular end result, our subconscious mind (the root of our true selves) is given an opportunity to come to the surface. - Focusing on design - the overall abstract relationships in your painting are what matter, and what have the most impact. - Realizing that the creative and the critical (analytical) aspects of our practice require two different ways of thinking that must be considered separately. - Working with no specific end in mind, and allowing ideas to develop. - Use of the Notan in design and creative thought (improvisation) - Solid drawing and values as a basis for “looseness” - Subjective color - Breakdown and building back up of the image - An understanding of the creative concept in our work Notes: ***Students should bring their own photos to work from*** PLEASE MAKE AT LEAST TWO PHOTOCOPIES OR BLACK AND WHITE PRINTOUTS OF THOSE IMAGES THAT YOU’D LIKE TO WORK FROM. THESE IMAGES DO NOT HAVE TO BE THE SAME SCALE AS YOUR FINAL PAINTING, BUT SHOULD BE OF A SIZE WHERE ONE OR TWO WILL FIT ON A STANDARD PIECE OF COPY/PRINTER PAPER (8 1/2 X 11). THE MORE YOU HAVE OF THESE, THE BETTER!! -I'll do a demo of a painting for the first half of each day, with the students painting the second half of the day. -Attendees may use oils or acrylics

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This policy is effective January 1, 2025.

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Cancellations must be received in writing and submitted 2 weeks prior to the arrival date for a full refund, less deposit. Cancellations after 2 weeks are non-refundable.

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This policy is effective January 1, 2025.

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