Working in the studio from photos or with still life, this class will take your painting to another level. Susie Hyer’s enthusiastic teaching style includes demos, critiques, and individual attention, and incorporates approaches and methods for building a painting “from the bottom up” that will make your plein air or studio work visually stronger and more exciting. You will learn and practice the principles involved in building dynamic compositions with big shapes. These concepts apply to all genres of painting, landscape, figure, still life, interiors and more. Class begins each day with a demo or critique, and then the concepts are put to work each afternoon in quick exercises. We will later put the ideas to work in a painting you can do from one of your photos or from a studio still life. While this information is appropriate for novice to advanced painters, students should have a good understanding of their medium. www.susiehyerstudio.com