Painting techniques will give you the opportunity to explore 5 mediums (walnut oil, oil sticks, sumi ink, oil paints, and acrylics) in unique ways in your work and studio practice. We will approach each medium with curiosity and play, with an emphasis on experimentation and process based painting. Each week students will be presented with a lecture on exemplary artists who use these mediums in their work, an energizing demonstration on technique by the instructors, and a weekly assignment/critique.

Every week the class will hear a new auditory piece written by composer and trombonist Eli Feingold. The auditory piece will be specifically written to accompany a color theory assignment and presentation for that week. For example - if we are working with warm colors for that week, the auditory piece will involve “warm” sounds. The students will then go home and make a painting based off of the auditory piece (they will be encouraged to listen to it as they paint) and we will critique their work in the following class.

Painting techniques will give you the opportunity to explore 5 mediums (walnut oil, oil sticks, sumi ink, oil paints, and acrylics) in unique ways in your work and studio practice. We will approach each medium with curiosity and play, with an emphasis on experimentation and process based painting. Each week students will be presented with a lecture on exemplary artists who use these mediums in their work, an energizing demonstration on technique by the instructors, and a weekly assignment/critique.

Our emphasis in this course is to make art that develops, or refines, your unique visual language and the confidence that comes with that. This course is for people who want to dive into their practice during these winter months while experiencing a connection with other artists who seek an encouraging and challenging environment.

Each class will start with a lecture of hard-edge painters, focusing on those already in the traditional art cannon, as well as up and coming artists working in a hard-edge style. Then we will move on to an assignment for that week regarding a hard-edge approach - i.e. focus on geometric shapes, organic shapes, large vs. small, pattern etc. If necessary, a live demo will be provided for the students regarding the assignment. Student work will then be critiqued in the following class.

In this course, we will embrace the confident and bold mark making of Paul Cézanne in our oil paintings. Through a series of lectures and demos, we will investigate how Cézanne used exploratory brushstrokes and daring color in his work, and how he served as a bridge between impressionism and cubism. Students will work on two assignments throughout the five weeks: a replication of a Cézanne painting to get familiar with his style, followed by their own unique and contemporary spin on Cézanne’s work.

Hofmann’s influence continues with this course where you will learn the principles of plasticity (the paint IS the thing), composition and vibrational color. The work will get done in each person’s environment and then shared with the group. This five-week online course can include other media if paint is involved in the process. Our goal is to understand what good painting is and to create ways to be truly present in our own art.

In this course we will explore Hans Hofmann’s theory of pushing and pulling a composition on a two-dimensional surface by drawing from life with charcoal on paper, collage, and paint. Mondays begin with critique of the week before. From 10-noon, we will be making work (drawing, painting, collaging) from a long pose. Real-time feedback will happen in an encouraging and supportive environment that is also authentic and challenging. A weekly challenge will be given.

A one-hour supplemental meeting of the Introduction to Color Class to critique works-in-progress in a PowerPoint presentation. The art is from a weekly challenge. With time permitting, there is also a PowerPoint presentation of an artist, school of art or a technique. Students report that the midweek critique creates continuity and productivity in their artist’s practice and in Introduction to Color.

Introduction to color will provide you with the fundamental basics to painting with color. In this course, we will explore foundational concepts using color theory and the color wheel to guide us. By the end of the course you will have a thorough and confident understanding of color relationships and key terminology - like hue, tone, shade, tint, split compliment, tetrad, and much more.

A one-hour supplemental meeting of the Push, Pull, Paint (III) Class to critique works-in-progress in a PowerPoint presentation. The art is from a weekly challenge. With time permitting, there is also a PowerPoint presentation of an artist, school of art or a technique. Students report that the midweek critique creates continuity and productivity in their artist’s practice and in Push, Pull, Paint III.

Hofmann’s influence continues with this course where you will learn the principles of plasticity (the paint IS the thing), composition and vibrational color. The work will get done in each person’s environment and then shared with the group. This five-week online course can include other media if paint is involved in the process. Our goal is to understand what good painting is and to create ways to be truly present in our own art.

Each of the five sessions will begin with looking at works from PAAM’s collection, or at each other’s art, as prompts for the material being presented that day. We start with gesture drawings, then move on to evolving exercises based in the Hofmann tradition of abstracting the figure while working from nature. Artists can create drawings, paintings, mixed media collage or sculpture.

Hofmann’s influence continues with this course where you will learn the principles of plasticity (the paint IS the thing), composition and vibrational color. The work will get done in each person’s environment and then shared with the group. This five-week online course can include other media if paint is involved in the process. Our goal is to understand what good painting is and to create ways to be truly present in our own art.

Hofmann’s influence continues with this course where you will learn the principles of plasticity (the paint IS the thing), composition and vibrational color. The work will get done in each person’s environment and then shared with the group. This five-week online course can include other media if paint is involved in the process. Our goal is to understand what good painting is and to create ways to be truly present in our own art.