Imaginative Realism Figure Painting

Imaginative Realism Figure Painting | Vanessa Lemen | January 12th

$129.00

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Price: $129
Duration: 4 Sessions
Time: 1pm-3pm
Start Date: January 12-February 2, 2021

Create a figure painting with a focus on the balance of imaginative and representational painting, incorporating exploration with experimental mark-making techniques while maintaining a sense of form and realism. We will build the painting in layers by utilizing each consecutive week as a new layer on the same painting. Each week will demonstrate a wide range of painting methods, and how to utilize them in a balanced manner with an organized workflow in order to construct a compelling composition. Students will be able to paint along during the class, and will gain insight regarding workflow, tools, materials, and surfaces as well as the application used for various marks from loose and painterly to form-driven rendering. Other topics that will be discussed are: personal voice and vision, inspiration and influence, and interpretation and perception, to name a few. During these 4 weeks, this process will yield an imaginative realism figure painting.

A virtual room link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date. A short tutorial will be given prior to the live class starting.

Unable to attend a sessions? No worries, ALL students will have access to watch the recorded session for 7-days. Recording available 1 day after live session.

Materials

Oil paints:

(you are welcome to use a limited color palette or other similar colors if you choose)

The colors I’ll be using are:

Titanium White

Titanium Buff

Cadmium Yellow Pale

Cadmium Red Light

Transparent Gold Ochre

Transparent Red Iron Oxide

Transparent Maroon

Burnt Umber

Ivory Black

Ultramarine Blue

I will talk about other colors that I use frequently as well

If you’d like to use water based media, that’s fine too but just be aware of drying time.

Brushes:

various sizes and shapes of sables from small rounds to mid-sized flats, brights and filberts

various mops or large soft sables if you don’t have mops (basically something puffy and soft)

a couple larger bristles or utility bristle brushes

Gamsol mineral spirits or odorless turpentine

Jar for gamsol

Linseed oil

rags or paper towels

silicone spatula (kitchen spatula)

Any other sort of silicone tools such as paint shapers or combs

Other unconventional tools I will be using are: scraps of foam core, kneaded erasers, rubber stamps, squeegees, paint rollers, plastic wrap, sand paper, misc found objects

Suggested surface:

Pre-gessoed masonite panel such as the Mona Lisa gessoed art boards (something around 12×16” is good)

This online course requires the use of the Zoom program. You will need a computer, tablet or smartphone (with camera preferred) and internet. To download the program, click on the following link: zoom.us/download.

A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date. If you need help with Zoom, please let us know and we will schedule a short tutorial for you prior to your class.

Vanessa Lemen is an award-winning painter who lives and works in Carlsbad, CA. Her work has shown in galleries and exhibitions internationally, and is in private collections internationally as well. She is represented by Rehs Contemporary Galleries in NYC. With eight paintings exclusively published in the new Illustrated Limited Edition of The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin (Easton Press/MBI, Inc) released in 2018, her work has also been published in such art books as Spectrum, Women of Wonder, The Journal, and Infected By Art. She has also been featured in articles in magazines such as American Art Collector, ImagineFX, and Poets and Artists. Vanessa also writes monthly columns for the Muddy Colors blog. Her recent work has earned her The Chesley Award and other awards in publications such as Infected By Art, as well as Art Renewal Center’s ARC Salon, and participation in the International ARC Salon Exhibition.

Described through metaphorical imagery, it’s excerpts from her personal journey and reflection that she credits most as the inspiration for her work, and rolling with the unexpected as the very nature of her process. Much like the spontaneity of a dialog, the marks on the surface are what evoke a response and then a discovery, and a possibility of something new to form. Each piece she creates seems to come from a chaos, and in it, she is able to create a place of reflection and curiosity, a balance of the deep-seated and the unknown, with areas of rest and of movement that intertwine to form a calm amid the chaos.

For more info, visit VanessaLemenArt.com

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LAAFA reserves the right to cancel any class/workshop, limit workshop size, change workshop times or substitute instructors for those listed in the schedule. If a workshop is cancelled; students may transfer to another workshop, use credit on artschoolvideos.com, keep credit on file or be issued a full refund.

All online classes and workshops are non-refundable, non-transferable and no makeups are available.

A 7-day recording is provided the day after the online live class. No recording extensions are permitted.

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