How to Plan a Painting: A Design Boot Camp
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Jan 13-Mar 3, 2010
Meets 6:30 PM-9:30 PM
on Wed
Tuition: $360.00
Level: BEG
Status: This program is completed
Robert Henri said “a good painting is a remarkable feat of organization”. Get ready to hunker down and explore the first and foremost demand of picture making – good design. Composition is not being able to fit your subject matter on the canvas. Good composition is creating a beautiful and dynamic visual statement through the adaptation of an intentional plan – a coordination of parts to produce a harmonious whole. Intent and purpose trumps all particulars in the planning of a painting. The class will be seated at tables and consist of a series of exercises with a variety of mediums. The artist will go on an exploration of all the elements of picture making: proportion, dominance, subordination, movement, creating emphasis, and space, all as a means to an end. We will exploit the elements of art: value, line, texture, shape and color in our search for a UNITY OF EFFECT. You will come to understand that the viewer can only infer the intent of the painter from the evidence displayed in the design of the painting. Buckle up and get ready for a ride through a fast-paced land of creative and artistic invention.
Instructor -- Susan & Doug Diehl
Susan and Doug Diehl’s goal is to delight the eye through color, harmony and strong design. The two feel it’s important to understand the principles gleaned from their own experience and studies with great artists such as Rom Lucas and William F. Both artists are represented by the Sanders Gallery in Tucson, The Lawrence Gallery and Montana Trails in Bozeman. Susan is also represented by The Wadle Gallery in Santa Fe and the Cole Gallery in Edmonds, Washington. Doug is also represented by Scottsdale Fine Art.
- 1 – 9x12 tablet of smooth drawing paper 100 sheets. (Get fairly good paper so you can erase i.e. Canson Universal Sketch Pad 65 lb.)
- Tracing Paper – white – 9 x 12 pad or a roll you can cut up
- Scissors, a Good white eraser, Glue Stick, Scotch Tape, Compass
- Ruler (one of those flat, see thru plastic ones with red grid lines would be great, 12 inch
- Small Angle and a small Protractor
- Anything else you might want to bring to help you make shapes (like curves and templates). Do not run out and by any of these but if you happen to have some they might come in handy.
- Pencils: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B, and Sharpener
- A set of inexpensive colored pencils, 12 – 24. You can even use the Crayola brand.
- Black Markers with a variety of tips. Sharpie ultra fine point, fine point, broad or chisel point. One more that is finer than the sharpie ultra fine. There are many brands, get an O or double OO. Make sure it is black and finer than the finest sharpie.
- 3 distinctly different values of grey markers - the brand is Prisma Color, the color is called “Cool Grey” and the percentages are 10%, 20%, 40%. 60% and 80%. I have asked Jerry’s and they said they would make a special order for us to make sure there is enough. You will need the markers the first night; both the black and grey.
- A 1 inch 3 ring binder
- A 50 pack of clear sheet protectors - Staples and Office Max have good value on these.
- If you have any questions on these supplies you can e-mail me at diehlart@gmail.com or call me at 520-568-1442. Leave a message as I am in the studio during the day.