Workshops Summer 2012 – Oil Painting
Laura Robb
Still Life in Oil
Intermediate to Advanced
March 21-23, 9:30am-4:30pm
$425 plus tax
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
This workshop is for students who are serious about advancing their skills of observation and want to understand how to make use of their palette to its full advantage. Students will work from very simple set-ups, often two pears. The instructor will explain and show through demonstration studies how certain effects of light and depth can be achieved. She will also try to help identify materials or procedures a student may be using that are getting in the way of their progress.
We will discuss composition, technique, principles of light and shade and a range of other painting related topics. Almost all of the lessons will apply to any medium or subject matter but the focus will be specific to still life in oil. Demonstrations will be done with the intent of illustrating how to handle specific problems rather than producing an entire finished painting and during the class students will be encouraged to adopt a similar attitude with an emphasis on learning and study. Previous experience in mixing color is necessary. It will be 3 days of intense concentration—but fun too. Bring a sense of humor.
Laura Robb grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and entered art school at the age of sixteen. In 1974 she moved to New York City to study with Michael Aviano. After returning to the southwest she studied drawing with Ned Jacob and received critiques from Richard Schmid. Since moving to Taos, New Mexico, in 1986, Robb’s art travels have taken her to France, Spain, Guatemala, and across the United States. She has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows and her paintings have received many awards, most notably the John F. and Anna Lee Stacy Scholarship. Her paintings, in both oil and watercolor, portray a variety of subject matter. Her work has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art, and in The Artist’s Magazine. Laura Robb’s paintings are currently shown at the Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, and Clagget-Rey Gallery in Vail. www.laurarobb.com.
Joshua Fallik
Still Life in Oil
Advanced
June 25-29, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$595 plus tax (incl. modeling fee)
Joshua Fallik’s teaching is modeled after the works and concepts of the Renaissance and Dutch Masters, skilled craftspersons who understood the secrets of transforming light into paint and texture into brush work. Harnessing the sheer joy of just moving paint on canvas, his goal is to fuse knowledge of how we see with the understanding of human emotions, all in order to create powerful emotional response in both the painter and the person looking at the painting.
Through gaining an understanding of light and sight, students in this class will learn to create a realistic, effective, and exciting visual story, with rhythmic eye movement and clear center of interest.
Joshua Fallik is a working artist who has taught drawing and painting for the past 28 years, at many diverse schools including the Art Students’ League of New York (assistant teacher to David Leffel); NAROPA University in Boulder, CO; Scottsdale Artists’ School, Scottsdale, AZ; The University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), The White Rock School of Art in Vancouver (B.C.), The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; and at 'Very Special Arts' at Colombia Presbyterian Hospital in New York (NY). Josh is featured in the DVD: Joshua Fallik: Portrait from Life, produced by Lilliendahl Studio productions. www.joshuafallik.com
Ramon Kelley
Portrait and Figure
Advanced
July 9-13, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$650 plus tax (incl. modeling fee)
While accomplished in many media and most genres, Ramon Kelley is best known for his exquisite pastel portraits and figure studies. Students in this workshop will have the opportunity to work on still life, nude and clothed figure studies, and portrait under Mr. Kelley’s direction. The class will consist of demonstrations and individual instruction. Topics addressed will include values, color temperature, looseness vs. detail, and layering in pastel without making mud. Although demos will be in pastel and oil, students are welcome to work in any medium. Students must have portrait and/or figure experience.
Ramon Kelley traces his interest in art back to his grade school days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he often filled the margins of his textbooks with drawings. After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy he won a scholarship to the Colorado Institute of Art. For the past 30 years he and his family have made their home in Denver, where Kelley has built an award-winning reputation in various media, including oil, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, and sculpture. In 1985 the Pastel society of America named Ramon a Master Pastelist, and in 1986 the P.S.A. elected him to the Pastel Hall of Fame. www.kelleyfamilyfineart.com.
Lorenzo Chavez
Plein Air Oil and Pastel
Intermediate to Advanced
August 27-31, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$595 plus tax
Come learn to understand landscape painting from outdoor inspiration to finishing a painting in the studio. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of landscape painting in oil and pastel, including composition, values, masses, focal point, edges, line, drawing, and color. Pastels and oils are classic media that lend themselves naturally to outdoor studies and indoor studio work, and Chavez feels that working from life is the best way to develop your skills and gain the necessary knowledge to improve your landscape work. Weather permitting, the class will work outdoors 3 out of the 5 days, creating small pastel and or oil field studies. Lorenzo will demonstrate each day and will offer individual attention and critiques.
Born in New Mexico, Lorenzo Chavez now resides in Colorado with his family. He credits his art career to an inherited connection to the colorful and historic American Southwest, as well as early exposure to the work of the Taos Society of Artists. He graduated with honors from the Colorado Institute of Art. Chavez regularly participates in invitational group exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America in New York, Artists of America show in Denver, Society of American Impressionists and Plein Air Painters of America. He had a one-man show at the C.M. Russell Museum and has participated in several of C.M. Russell’s art auctions. Several feature articles have profiled Chavez in Southwest Art, Artists of the West, The Artist’s Magazine, Pastel Journal, and, most recently, American Artist, February, 2010.
Lorenzo is a respected teacher of plein air painting, offering workshops, demos and lectures across the country. Chavez is represented by Grapevine Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK; Betsy Swartz Fine Art, Bozeman, MT, Abend Gallery, Denver CO and Mockingbird Gallery, Bend, OR. www.lorenzochavez.com
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