Abstracting the Landscape 2024
May 31--June 28, 2024. This course is for intermediate to advanced landscape painters interested in exploring abstraction.
This course is for intermediate to advanced landscape painters working in any medium who want to explore abstraction. In this course, we’ll begin with nature as our starting point. One of the goals of the course is to help you discover where along that sliding scale of realism to abstraction your work fits. Another goal is to help you find the unique and personal visual vocabulary you will use to express your experience of the landscape. We'll also explore specific techniques for abstracting landscape and a variety of tools, mediums and materials. Zooms are recorded and you have evergreen access so you can revisit the course materials whenever you like.
The Importance of Play
Pictorial Space
Week 1 -Exercise #1 Lines and Shapes
Week 1--Exercise #2 Mark Making
Week 1--Exercise #3--Building Your Shape Vocabulary
Week 1--Exercise #4 Finding Lines and Shapes in Nature
Week 1--Demo Example of Five Line Drawings (Part I)
Week 1 --Demo Example of Five Line Drawings (Part II_
Recording--Zoom Meeting #1
Iterations--Mining Your Work
The Birth of Collage and Mixed Media
Collage Tips
Lee Krasner
Week 2- Assignment #1--Movement
Week 2--Assignment #2- Collage B&W
Another B&W Collage Demo
Week 2--Assignment #3--Collage from one of your paintings
Zoom #2 Recording
Process
Week 3--Assignment #1 Drawing from your 5 line drawings
Week 3--Assignment #2 Painting from your drawings
Week 3--Assignment #3 Painting from collage
Week 3--Assignment #4. Make more collages
Zoom #3 Recording
Working with cold wax medium
Amy Sillman on her process
Pigment Sticks
Week 4--Cropping
Week #4 Exercise 1 Using cropping to find compositions from shapes
Week 4--Exercise #2 Crops From Paintings
Week 4 --Exercise #3 Crops From Collage
Zoom #4 Recording