W O R K S H O P S
2012
Everyone is an art critic
Featuring representational plein air and studio
fine art original oil landscape paintings
Two to three Saturdays per month throughout the year I will be teaching semi-private painting classes in my studio for up to four students. If you would like to be on my mailing list for these announcements, please send me your email address.
Jim Lamb Workshop
DEVELOPING LARGER PAINTINGS: From Photographs & Your Plein Air Studies
DATE: June 8 - 10, 2012
COST: $375
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate
This workshop is designed for students who have had some experience painting outdoors in smaller formats and who want to create larger works based upon the smaller studies and photographs they have selected from their outdoor work.
Jim Lamb will demonstrate using plein air studies and photographs and teach his process of re-designing and refining his studies and/or photographs to produce larger studio works.
He will talk about the way to use your photography as a visual guide, and not as a source to slavishly copy from. Emphasis will be placed on subject matter selection, simplicity and strength of design, as well as discussion of paint quality and texture on the canvas. Special attention will be given to the finishing of a painting, paying close attention to color temperature relationships, simple massing of shapes and sizes of shapes, the importance of value relationships and how they contribute to the overall strength of design, the control of various edges to direct the eye of the viewer through the painting, and finally, knowing when to quit.
360.637.4690 / 206.571.0442
To reserve your spot in the class contact Cary Jurriaans at:
8x10 Plein Air Study
30x40 Sunset Light on Aliso Creek