I will be teaching a 4-day still life workshop in my Boston studio in February. There will be a limit of 8 students for this class.

February 9-12 or 16-19, or it could be 10-13 or 17-20. Please let me know if any of these dates work for you. (I am flexible as to the dates but please let me know asap so that I can decide on one or two classes.)

8:30 - Noon
Each morning will be spent on a design exercise. We will all paint a small (approx 10 X 12 ) 2 hour sketch of a still life design that we set up each morning. You can draw it in pencil or charcoal or in color with paint. This is a valuable exercise and something that I do a lot. These will be simple designs that demonstrate some useful fundamentals of design - how overlapping shapes create immediate depth, and diagonal lines create movement and energy, for example. It will help you realize the importance of design and you will learn shortcuts in how to quickly make changes that will bring the quality of your work to the next level. Each morning you will do a new design so that there will be 4 separate or perhaps related but improved ideas by the end of the session. These should be useful sketches/notes to take back to your own studio at the end of the workshop.

Noon - 1 pm
Lunch. Bring your own or go out to a neighborhood joint.

1 - 4:00 pm
In the afternoons you will paint one large ( 16 X 20 approx ) still life over the course of the 4 days and I will coach you along so that you leave with a finished painting. This should be plenty of time ( 4 X 3 hour sessions ) to design and paint a top-notch painting. The first afternoon you will come up with a design and then lay in the painting with thin paint so that the whole canvas is covered. The next three afternoons you will develop the form and color and paint handling of your picture until it is finished.

There will be a limit of 8 students so that there is plenty of room. I will have still life tables set up with good light. Bring an object, or fruit, or something personal that you want to paint. I will also have lots of things to use. ( Look at the still life attached and notice that there is a lot of variety - of objects, of textures, of surfaces, of shape , of size, etc. Lots of variety adds richness and interest. Think a lot about what you would like to paint. Even 3 objects in a still life can be very rich, if they are the right 3. )There will be plenty of opportunity for me to work one-on-one with students to help in any way necessary.

* View painting demos - start to finish

* View photos from past workshops