Upcoming Classes

 How to Paint        Roses 

Class on August 3, 2013   

 Susan will show you a one stroke approach to painting roses, just so you think cup and saucer for shape.

This will take up the first hour of class learning how to think about the rose shape and doing a one stroke exercise and building on it.

2^nd hour: Class is encouraged to finish their Sunflowers. I will show my Sunflower painting finished. It will be posted with stepped photos of my process, with notations, on this blog's homepage under Lesson 5.

For the students finished with their sunflowers, we will paint the fresh rose bouquet in class alla prima. Others may finish their own projects. I will circulate and help, then return to painting. As I paint I will lecture about shadows and post information on painting light, half light, half tone shadow, and shadow, taking a look at how shadow meets light , and how to paint reflective light.

About the above painting: 

"All pink" is by Susan Sprigg (me). One of my classes in this series will be about neutralizing color. To drive the idea home that you must warm up, cool down color, and neutralize it to differentiate it from it's surroundings, my students are to pick a subject and a color and then paint everything in that color. Of course it is not just one color, but painting an all pink, or an all green etc. painting challenges a painter to set temperature, mood, and move color in the neutrals while still giving a one color impression. This rose painting was done in class demonstrating solutions in pink. This was from a previous series of classes. We will be doing a short series on types of color schemes and one color scheme will kick it off.  Below is an example of greens by Andrew Loomas.

Andrew Loomas painting in Analogous Green