January 17 to January 21, 2020
9am to 4 pm each day
Easton, Pennsylvania

Painted Sketch Inventions—Direct and Indirect Painting

The workshop revolves around the practice of inventing small scale landscape motifs, (like those seen in the photo on the right), using a limited palette variation I call ‘muted scale’. It’s essentially using low chroma colors and neutrals as stand-ins for higher chroma colors during the early stages of composing a painting. As the composition is worked out and solidified, higher chroma colors are worked in directly, or by glazing, to finish the painting.

During this workshop, we work with direct painting methods as both an end in itself and as a set-up for indirect painting methods used during the finishing phases. Direct painting is more intuitive and done quickly and reactively. Indirect painting seeks to refine those initial decisions while still honoring the original energy and spirit present in the early stages of painting.

*all workshop tuition is non refundable and non transferable