Abstract Painting: Experimenting, Risk Taking and Growth

Workshop | This program is completed

Intermediate-Advanced

2/4/2019-2/8/2019

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

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$650.00

All great paintings in every style and time period are built on the abstract structure underneath the image -the use of line, space, value, color, and texture. At a primal level, it is this abstract language that moves us. Abstract painting explores the power of the purely visual. Students will not be taught to paint like the instructor. Instead, students will be encouraged to explore, take risks, and become the best version of themselves as artists. Students will be encouraged and inspired in a fun, upbeat atmosphere and go home ready to create their best work yet. davidmichaelslonim.com

Topics covered will include:
• How to create image structure.
• How to design a color harmony.
• How to improve any painting instantly.
• How to critique any style of painting.
• The 3 subjects in every good painting.
• How to find a gallery.
• How to tell your story to the right audience.
• Website mistakes to avoid

Slonim, David Michael

Drawing on visual childhood memories of works by Van Gogh, Picasso, and Calder, David Michael Slonim reaches simultaneously for the playful and spiritual through structured, improvisational abstraction. Born in Miami, FL (1966) and raised in New Jersey, Slonim received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. For the next decade, he created images for advertising, editorial, and corporate clients including Wrigley’s Gum, Reader’s Digest, Sports Illustrated, IBM and T.G.I.Fridays. Turning to landscape painting in 1998, he continued studying artists like Diebenkorn, Mitchell and Rothko. His work naturally morphed toward abstraction as his focus shifted to the structure beneath the image. Slonim is also a prolific children’s author and illustrator, recognized for excellence by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Society of Illustrators. He speaks regularly to organizations and schools about creativity and life as a professional artist.