Spring 2015 Workshops

"Landscape Into Art"
Painting & Drawing
4-Day Urban and Natural Landscape Workshop
June 11th-14th, 10AM to 5PM
Tuition: $525
Location: Initial meeting place: Fort Mason Center, Building C
Deposit (non-refundable): $50 due June 5th.
Remaining tuition ($475) due June 11th.

This inspiring four-day workshop explores diverse locations and a tantalizing range of motifs. The ongoing focus is on each painter’s aesthetic experience of nature and the desire to manifest that experience through the medium. A progression of activities, from initial sketches to finished paintings, as well as provocative approaches to time-honored traditions will search out fresh undertakings related to the problems of landscape painting today.

Participants will investigate individual relationships to form, color, imagery and paint handling in cultivating visual concepts of the art of landscape. Water views, wooded groves, and rolling hills will contrast with historic buildings. Panoramic expanses will be juxtaposed against the organic particulars of the cultivated environment. Architectural elements will provide geometry, visual structure will be developed to create sense of place, and qualities of color will be cultivated to suggest time of day.

 

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We will paint at Angel Island, Marin Headlands, Marin Garden Center, Upper Fort Mason and Paradise Park*. Multiple individual critiques and group discussions will create context for the work we will be doing. Participants will encounter a variety of visual formats and each person will work in the medium of his/her choice, whether oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolor.

Landscape Into Art

For more information or to register, please
call (415) 398-4300 or email info@sfstudioschool.org.

 

*Exact locations subject to change.

Landscape Into Art

“We are surrounded with things which we have not made and which have a life and structure different than our own: trees, flowers, grasses, rivers, hills, clouds. For centuries they have inspired us with curiosity and awe. They have been objects of delight. We have recreated them in our imagination to reflect our moods. And we have come to think of them as contributing to an idea we have called nature.”

-Landscape Into Art, Revised Edition,
Sir Kenneth Clark