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Spatial Structures in Painting: Planning Interior Spaces and Landscapes with MATT KLOS

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Posted by: Manifest Drawing Center
Deadline: Fri, August 9th, 2024

 

Spatial Structures in Painting: Planning Interior Spaces and Landscapes
A 3-day Intensive Workshop with Matt Klos


August 9-11, 2024 (Friday - Sunday)

Friday, August 9 - Artist Talk and Demo, 6-10pm

Saturday, August 10 - Workshop, 10am - 5pm*

Sunday, August 11 - Workshop, 10am - 5pm*

Tuition:

10% discount offered through June 28: $346 (Student Rate: $294) 

Full price registration through August 9: $385 (Student Rate: $327)

* 15% discount student rates offered only with valid academic student i.d. We will contact you to obtain verification in advance of the workshop.




Description:

A painting is a construct. The painter uses a combination of color, value, and mark-making to organize the surface of a work. In this workshop, we will craft paintings with a focus on creating zones. This will allow the painter to identify and organize the painting into large shape areas: thinking first of light, dark, warm, and cool and then moving to hue, chroma, and texture. 

Identifying a simple structure makes it possible to succeed in creating a complex painting. Beginning and intermediate painters sometimes assume deft rendering or virtuoso paint handling holds the key to unlocking greater possibilities in their work. More commonly, a convincing large-shaped structure is what is lacking in their paintings. 

This workshop is for beginning, intermediate, and advanced painters interested in a gestalt approach to planning and painting landscapes and interior spaces. Students will benefit from slide lectures, individual instruction, and critique.

 

Key Workshop Objectives: 

• Reduce visual information to create legible big-shape compositions.
• Identify zones in nature to assist in building a painting.
• Increase understanding of paint handling.
• Increase understanding of color by studying value and saturation.
• Continue to develop a personal sense of color and expression.
• Develop a “hierarchy of light” in compositions.

 

Level of Study: This workshop is suggested for individuals with some painting experience. Basic knowledge of oil painting is recommended.

 

AREA ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THOSE TRAVELING TO ATTEND

For those traveling to Cincinnati to attend this visiting artist workshop, there are many exciting or practical options for accommodations. For a special stay within a mile of Manifest’s new facility, we would recommend checking with The Clifton House Bed & Breakfast* (https://thecliftonhouse.com) or The Gaslight Bed & Breakfast (https://www.gaslightbb.com). Alternatively, the 21c Museum Hotel is in the heart of downtown just four miles from our location (link). Many other common hotels are within a few miles of our location as well.

*We have confirmed that the Clifton House will honor a special discounted rate for Manifest workshop participants. 

LOCATION: Unless otherwise specified, all courses are hosted at Manifest’s new facility at ’M1’ in Clifton at 3464 Central Parkway (see map and directions below). Manifest’s new facility provides multiple studio classrooms, private lesson space, a darkroom, a film processing room, and a multi-purpose lecture and class meeting space as well as on-site parking, grounds, and exterior spaces in which to relax, discuss, and make art. The studios are outfitted with professional equipment, furniture, and study aids.

 

https://www.manifestgallery.org/studio/workshops/klos/index.html

Posted on Mon, June 24th, 2024
Expires on Fri, August 9th, 2024

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