Oil Painting Workshops with Karen Winslow



Sylvan Gallery is pleased to offer intensive painting workshops in oils, watercolors, or pastels with instructor, Karen Winslow. The workshops are appropriate for painters of all levels of skill. People new to oil painting are especially welcome. Please contact the gallery if you have any questions.
Painting Workshops with Karen Winslow
2008 Workshop Dates
"Still Life Painting " - Feb 22 - 24 / Fri. Sat. & Sun.		10 am - 4 pm
"Still Life Painting" - April 18 - 20 / Fri. Sat. & Sun.		10 am - 4 pm

Landscape Plein Air dates to be announced

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Still Life Class Information: The goal of the class is to help artists learn to use the language of painting from life to communicate an illusion of light, form, space and depth in a realistic manner. Light and shade will be analyzed on the still life to form a concept of overall design and rhythm. In these still life workshops, Karen will include a discussion on the important aspects of how to set up your own still life at home. On the second and third day of the workshop, participants will have the option of teaming up to set up their own still lifes to work from. Set ups will to be critiqued and improvements suggested. Participants may also bring in a painting that they have been working on at home for a one on one critique. This is a workshop to further skills already acquired and to push people on to more exciting work. Value relationship, atmospheric perspective, movement, edges, and mass to detail relationship will emphasized. Students will receive individual instruction and critique as well as group instruction. Oils, watercolors or pastels can be used.
Still Life Fee: $285 for 3 days or $200 for two days. A 10% discount will be applied to those who have taken Karen's classes through Sylvan Gallery before.
Minimum 9 students; maximum 13 / The Still Life Class will meet at the Clinton Park and Recreation building on Rt. 81 off exit 63 on I-95.
Our policy: A non-refundable $75 will hold your place in class. The balance is due two weeks prior to the first day of class. Assume a class is running unless otherwise notified 2-3 days prior to the start date. Please contact the gallery if you need information on local accomodations.
Class philosophy: "You can only paint as well as you can mass" – Frank Vincent Dumond. This quote, by one of our nation’s greatest art teachers, should be the motto of every realist painter who paints from life. What is massing, and why is it so important? Painting in mass is learning to disguise the edge, or let go of the outline and think in terms of bulk and weight, and advancing and receding in space. The artist learns to "pitch" or "key" their painting by using a tonal scale, concentrating on value relationships, and working loosely, from the general to the specific. This frees the artist to build form, create atmosphere, see the painting as a "whole" (not isolated items), and draw with a loaded brush. The artist can then change, modify, and improve their composition and drawing as the painting develops. Massing is the underlying structure that every good painting should have to create an illusion of light, form, space, and depth; and it is the fastest way to improve. By learning to analyze, simplify and see in 5 basic planes of light, your paintings will glow with more power, depth, unity, and freshness. Join Karen Winslow in her eye-opening oil painting workshops from life. All of Karen’s classes are process oriented not project oriented, and she paints along side of her students demonstrating and explaining the "how" and "why" of universal artistic principles, so that the artist can paint with understanding.
Karen Winslow has been a professional artist for nearly 35 years and has been a featured artist in American Artist magazine. She has taught workshops at Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT; Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT; Sharon Art Center, Sharon, NH; Frog Hollow Craft Center, Middlebury, VT; and Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT. She has studied from 1973 to 1978 with Classical realist instructor Frank Mason at the Art Students League of New York. Frank Mason studied with Frank Vincent Dumond at the Art Students League and took over Dumond’s class in 1951. Today, Mason is still inspiring students at the League at age 85. Karen’s teaching stems from this heritage, and she is happy to pass on these universal principles to a new generation of realists who appreciate the beauty and harmony of creation.

SYLVAN GALLERY