2009 Landscape Drawing & Painting Intensive Schedule

Landscape Intensives
There are two Landscape Intensives offered this summer - one drawing and one painting. Both are fast moving, filled with information and activity. Both are inspirational and challenge and revitalize the concept of plein air drawing and painting. While either may be taken separately, they are devised as a continuation and complement to each other.

Please note that for participants registering for both Landscape Intensives, tuition is discounted to $1025 +$25 Registration Fee.

  • 3-Day Landscape Drawing Intensive
    The Nature of Landscape
    Friday, June 12 to Sunday, June 14: 9AM to approx. 5PM

    Faculty: Lon Clark, Laura Harden

    This three-day intensive workshop concentrates on the spatial and expressive aspects of drawing in relation to landscape. We will be working at scenic locations complimentary to the principles we will consider. Early morning slide shows will introduce the topic and its exploration each day. Morning or late afternoon critiques will review work underway. Lunchtime discussions will provide continuity of thought and problem solving in relation to the work in the field. Format, light, volume, depth, spatial complexity and simplicity will be considered. Participants should plan to bring bag lunches and to work into the early evening light.

    Tuition: $350/3 days + $25 Registration Fee
    A non-refundable deposit of $150 and the $25 registration fee due at time of registration
    .

    Space is limited, early enrollment is suggested. Please email info@sfstudioschool.org or call 415-398-4300 if you have questions or prefer to register via email.

    Materials list will be provided upon registration. Car-pooling will be arranged for transportation to and from locations.


    Landscape into Art
    Monday, June 22 to Friday, June 26: 9AM to approx. 6PM
    (One evening lecture may be scheduled.)

    Faculty: Lon Clark, Laura Harden, Sandy Walker

    The Landscape Intensive Workshop confronts time worn traditions through new approaches to seeing and working. Light, form, space, color, value and imagery will be integrated through forming, a process of uncovering individual affinities with the elements of painting and the natural world. Each day we will work at Bay Area locations offering a variety of motifs. Specific exercises, presentations, several individual critiques per day, shared lunchtime discussions and group critiques as the work progresses throughout the workshop will maintain the pace of hands on investigation of the subject. The history of painting as well as the discipline of photography will be referenced in presentations to encourage the conceptual understanding of landscape as a genre and the variety of tensions created by the related languages of painting and photography. Participants can expect to notably advance their relationship to the concept, subject and form of landscape painting through theory and application. Participants should plan to bring bag lunches and to work into the early evening light.

    Tuition: $775/5 days + $25 Registration Fee
    A non-refundable deposit of $475 and the $25 registration fee due at time of registration
    .

    Space is limited, early enrollment is suggested. Please email info@sfstudioschool.org or call 415-398-4300 if you have questions or prefer to register via email.

    Materials list will be provided upon registration. Car-pooling will be arranged for transportation to and from locations.

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    "I wanted to thank you for a truly phenomenal and provocative week...Thank you both for the dynamic presentations and discussions..."

    - Gywneth Tripp, Landscape Intensive 2008

    "I want to thank both of you for your support and to have created a terrific environment for the creative process. In looking at other student's work I see in each one of us, a unique individual at a point on a continuum of her creative path. I am definitely enriched by having this experience. Finally, your lectures are terrific and I so much enjoyed every one of them. I am so grateful for the clarification of many terminologies that were discussed.

    - Susan Chuang, Landscape Intensive 2008



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