Nourishing an Improvisational Imagination
These three days will inform the evolving shape of your visual imagination and offer tools for access to intuitive yet analytical PLAY within how you imagine, construct and feel painted space.
(A sequel to the zoom drawing class: Reframing the Ordinary and limited to 12 participants)
Special attention will be placed on the meanings and roles of structure, color, and color structure as the abstract, foundational rebar of painting.
Each day will explore a way of using paint to:
Understand and interpret your own work in the studio
Look at and learn from the work of other painters, not with regard to technique or ‘style’, but from looking intentionally at their sense of organization and structure
Use the resonances of other art forms, such as literature, as a source of feeding and shaping your own emergent visual imagination.
Some notes
This class will be run using acrylic paint on paper to help you build confidence while holding the loaded brush. We’ll address notions of fear, uncertainty and expectations by offering engagement with RISK as a place of growth and possibility. Familiarity with risk and uncertainty are the road forward, but can you allow yourself to go there?
These three days will offer ways of locating yourself within an evolving visual imagination, and the takeaways will be relevantly applicable to whatever kind of work you’re pursuing in your studio life.
Remember the lines from Cezanne’s letters where the interlocutor asks, "are we talking about nature (meaning what is ‘out there’), or the nature of the artist?" For these 3 days we are looking primarily at the nature of the artist or, at how the artist looks.
It is assumed that participants have taken the drawing class, Reframing the Ordinary, so as to already understand and have a working knowledge of the graphic strategies explored in that class.
Format
Dates to be announced, write to me with interest
Opening slide lecture Thursday night, 6:00PM EST,
"The Structure of the Visual Moment, a look into visual interiority", 90 minutes followed by Q&A. The talk will be open to the public as well serving as the first component of the class.
Friday, 4 hours
Saturday, 3 1/2 hours
Sunday, 3 1/2 hours
All three class sessions will start at 11:00AM Eastern Standard Time
It will not be unusual if we run over each day, so please allow for some overrun. A break will be offered in the middle of our days, and the days will be intense, with lots of working and words.
Additionally, this class will offer a 30-minute individual consultation to be scheduled with Stuart following the class.
Please contact artworkshopsboulder@gmail.com with questions and/or to register.