Painting

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Aug
16
to Aug 22
Painting

The Portrait as Starting Point

Peter Williams

PAINTING 614 001
1 credit hour 

This class will focus on issues raised in painting, particularly portraits and self-portraits, translating what is known and seen into the formal vocabulary of paint. Sources will include direct observation of the subject and the imagination. Students will investigate form and content as well as materials and techniques. Students may choose to work with oil-based media with odorless solvents, or water-based media. Slide lectures and critiques will be included.

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Aug
9
to Aug 15
Painting, Drawing

Drawing Marathon

Jimmy Wright

PAINTING 603 001
1 credit hour 

This five day drawing intensive for beginning and advanced students expands the experience and definition of drawing. Drawing exercises emphasize figure/ground, composition, color and scale while exploiting materials and technique to push the perceptual conventions of the still life, the landscape and the figure. The course includes daily demonstrations and discussions of historical and contemporary masters use of ink, gouache, graphite, acrylic and pastel with visual references from Rembrandt and Freud to Eve Hesse and Amy Sillman.

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Aug
2
to Aug 8
Painting

Watercolor

Carrie Gundersdorf

PAINTING 606 001
1 credit hour 

This course will focus on the materials and techniques of transparent watercolor. During the morning sessions, students will work from a studio still life and explore a variety of techniques and color schemes. Sessions will be individualized as much as possible to accommodate less experienced students. Afternoons will be devoted to a thematic suite of paintings developed over the course of the week.

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Jul
26
to Aug 1
Painting

Paint and Landscape: Materials as Narrative

Vera Iliatova

PAINTING 624 001
1 credit hour

This multilevel painting course will investigate painting as a form of language, where color, surface, and marks are considered as indicative of narrative. Students will consider questions such as: how do light, space, and color suggest narrative? How do surface and mark-making direct the reading of a painting, and how can meaning morph based on context? Using direct observation of the landscape as a jumping off point, students will be encouraged to work from other sources, such as memory and photographs. We will also examine painting in both contemporary and historical contexts. Oil paint will be supported, with demonstrations on techniques and material properties of oil. However, other media such as watercolor, gouache, and acrylic will also be supported for multi-level students.

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Jul
19
to Jul 25
Painting, Drawing, Pre-College

Pre-College Program: Landscape Drawing

EW Ross and Olivia Petrides

DRAWING 407 001
1 Credit hour (for credit only)

Drawing upon the natural terrain of Ox-Bow, students explore drawing, design, composition and creativity. A wide variety of drawing materials are used. Slide lectures, critiques, and meetings with visiting artists are included each evening. Note to parents/guardians: All Pre-College students are required to reside on campus during the course. Students are chaperoned and rules and regulations are strictly enforced. An adult chaperone is housed with Pre-College students throughout the week. Students must provide their own transportation to and from Ox-Bow. Pre-College students are not allowed to have vehicles on campus.

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Jul
5
to Jul 18
Painting

Landscape Record

Scott Wolniak

PAINTING 641 001
3 credit hours

Students will utilize the landscape as raw material for site-specific mark making; pulling visual recordings such as rubbings and castings directly from natural or found elements. Tree bark, rocks, and the forest floor, among other things, can be recorded onto paper, canvas and plaster through rubbing, staining and casting then transformed through formal investigations in the studio. Work will occur in situ and in studio. Aspects of material history, process and site-specificity will be further considered through selected readings, including “Seeing is Forgetting the Thing One Sees,” (Weschler), “Art as Experience,” (Dewey) and “Color: A Natural History of the Palette,” (Finlay).

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Jun
21
to Jul 4
Painting

Multi-Level Painting

Claire Ashley and Kori Newkirk

PAINTING 605 001
3 credit hours

This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Students will pursue various interests in figure, landscape, abstract, imaginary, and still-life painting and drawing. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations and critiques are included.

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Jun
7
to Jun 20
Painting

Altered States

Claire Sherman and Valerie Hegarty

PAINTING 638 001
3 credit hours 

Painting meets sculpture and the imaginary meets the real in this multi-level class exploring the visionary landscape. Students scavenge the external landscape for source material to assemble, graft, and fabricate uncanny juxtapositions and unnatural alterations of found objects using fast sculptural techniques that allow for maximum permutations and experimentation. Readings and films range from John Muir’s musing on nature to Mary Shelley’s descriptions of gothic landscapes in Frankenstein. Students develop projects that merge the psychological with the visible by reasserting their sculptural creations back into the natural environment and using them as inspiration for visionary drawings, paintings, installations and/or another series of sculptural objects.

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