Composition: Structure, Unity and Variety

Workshop | This program is completed

Intermediate-Advanced

4/22/2019-4/26/2019

9:00 AM-4:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri

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$685.00

Art reveals the evidence of our experiences and values. By observing and creating, the artist suggests themes that are essential to their character, and perpetuates the making and sharing of experiences. Through art, subjects become significant to us in unique ways, aesthetically and conceptually. Through lecture and demonstration, this workshop will reinforce the student’s understanding of composition, form and various methods of applying paint. Students will explore systems of dividing the space within the rectangle, distributing the lines and forms of the subject, and applying paint to the surface with various tools and techniques. Douglas will discuss the application of these principles to various subjects, including landscape, still life and portraiture. www.douglasfryer.blogspot.com

*Students in the “Suggesting Reality” workshop have the option to continue study with Douglas Fryer in his “Composition: Structure, Unity and Variety” Workshop, April 22-26.
*Students who are interested in the two workshops will receive a tuition discount. Tuition for both weeks is $1200 (a $170 savings).

Fryer, Douglas

Douglas Fryer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was raised in Illinois and California. In 1988 he received his BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. He later returned to BYU for further study toward and MFA in Painting and Drawing, and received his MFA in 1995. Fryer has taught fine art and illustration at several universities and art schools, including Brigham Young University; the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, New York; and Snow College, Ephraim, Utah. He currently lives and works in the small community of Spring City, located in beautiful Sanpete Valley in central Utah. “Art reveals the evidence of one’s life; in observing and creating the artist discovers themes that are the the makeup of his character, and perpetuates the making and sharing of experience. I create images that become material records of places, things and people that have been significant to me. Often, as I paint them they become significant to me in a different way: aesthetically, conceptually, and spiritually. There is a state of existence that lies between one’s physical and spiritual state, the present and the past, the reality and the symbol or impression. It is while I am in this frame of mind that life and the world seem the most clear and meaningful. It is to this state that I desire to return, and painting is one of the avenues through which I can regain and expand those feelings.”