Logic of Painting
Workshop | Available
In this four-day workshop, students will approach still-life and portrait painting not from the perspective of technique or dogma, but from a multiplicity of choices. Our focus will be on understanding why certain approaches are more effective and beautiful than others. We will learn to identify the task before us and view it as a field of open possibilities, recognizing that there is always more than one way to solve it. To paint with logic and understanding is to remain open and receptive. Simply being told how to solve a problem is just following someone else’s steps. Regina will explain how painting solutions emerge from an understanding and perception of light, space, and form. By employing value, color, edges, brushstrokes, and paint quality, we can translate visual information into beautiful paintings that are guided by our visual aesthetic ideas. www.reginalyubovnaya.com
Regina Lyubovnaya
“Regina Lyubovnaya is a Russian born artist. Regina’s educational path led her from the Moscow Institute of Arts, to Loyola Marymount University to the Pasadena Art Center of Design. Following this, she studied at the Florence Academy of Art and went on to the Student League of New York. Her most influential teacher remains to be David Leffel, her teaching is indebted to his wisdom and understanding painting as logical visual language.
During her 30 years of painting, Regina has taught at Brentwood Art Center, Klein Academy, Los Angeles Fine Art Academy, and has conducted numerous workshops.
Regina paints because "there is nothing like being in a state of meditation, translating reality into the language of paint." Regina’s vision is filtered through sensitivity to magical light; this light is the soul of her paintings. In her work, she seeks a balance between traditional realism and expressive abstraction, images are not merely illustrations but are sculptures of paint. The paintings are about the surface as much as the subject matter. The richness of her paint, the brilliance of her colors and the expressiveness of her brushstrokes all work together to create a timeless illusion of her reality.”