Learn to Paint in Any Medium

Fall, 2018

Classes meet in Beth Neville’s Milton studio
Classes begin with a 15 minute discussion of examples from art history
Fee: $130.00 (no supplies included)
Time: Tuesdays as noted below, noon – 2p.m. or 7-9 p.m.
Contact Beth to reserve your space.

• Session 1 September 11
  • Composition and Design
  • Classical: Leonardo da Vinci, vs Baroque: Peter Paul Rubens
• Session 2 September 18
  • Emotions of Color and color symbolism
  • El Greco and Wassily Kandinsky
• Session 3 September 25
  • Circular Perspective
  • Dutch Prankt painting and American, Charles Sheeler
• Session 4 October 2 (no class October 9)
  • Linear Perspective
  • Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael
• Session 5 October 16
  • Iconography, Symbolism
  • American sculptors David Smith and Claes Oldenburg; paintings of the Middle Ages and Salvadore Dali
• Session 6 October 23
  • Negative and Positive Shapes, foreground vs background
  • Jackson Pollack and Georgia O’Keefe
• Session 7 October 30
  • Texture in Painting
  • Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens and John Singer Sargent
• Session 8 November 6
  • Shading, light to dark
  • Early Renaissance painting, Georgia O’Keefe, others
• Session 9 November 13
  • Opacity, Luminescence, Translucency
  • The inherent nature of oil and watercolor paints.
• Session 10 November 20
  • War and Peace
  • Contemporary Resistance art; Benjamin West and Edward Hicks