Aesthetic Tools for Landscape Design

Aesthetic Tools for Landscape Design

Workshop | Available

Intermediate-Advanced
4/7/2025-4/11/2025
9:00 AM-4:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
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$720.00

Aesthetic Tools for Landscape Design

Workshop | Available

Jill will discuss concepts and techniques aimed to resolve and strengthen motifs and improve design, from initial ‘thought boards’ to actual planning methods. She will illustrate how unity and variety are used to create overall harmony. The class will explore the aesthetic principles of motif, notan, shape, value and color management, and the use of grids or armatures to divide up the canvas space and help with placement. She will discuss the science of how we see and how we can control eye movement. Jill will structure the workshop through set exercises, lectures, demos, and brainstorming discussions. Students will be working from their own visual material as well as that provided. www.jillcarver.com

  • Note: You must be an experienced and regular painter to benefit from this class; it is not suitable for beginners.

Carver, Jill
Jill Carver

Jill’s work has been featured in Southwest Art magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, Art of the West, and Western Art and Architecture. In 2014, Jill won the Gold Medal (Artists’ Choice) for Best in Show at Maynard Dixon Country and in the same year was inaugurated as Signature Member in ‘Plein Air Painters of America’; she currently serves on the board. Previously, she won numerous awards including: ‘Artists Choice’ at the Laguna Beach Invitational in 2009; and, at Plein Air Easton in 2008. She participated in the highly regarded Coors show in 2016 and 2017, and was invited as Guest Artist at the Northwest Rendevous Show in 2016 and 2018. Originally from London, England, Jill Carver moved to the United States in 2002. Before becoming a full time professional artist, she was a curatorial research assistant at the National Portrait Gallery in London for twelve years. She is a popular and highly regarded teacher. Galleries: The Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ The Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX Wood River Fine Arts, Ketchum, ID The Turquoise Door Gallery, Telluride, CO Affiliations: Vice President, Plein Air Painters of America Member – Northwest Rendevous Group Publications: Short feature, Western Art & Architecture, Dec/Jan 2018/2019 Feature length, Southwest Art, September 2017 Feature length, Art of the West, May/June 2015 Feature length, Plein Air Magazine, Summer 2011 Feature length, Southwest Art, June 2010 ‘Artist to watch’, Fine Art Connoisseur, Sept/Oct 2010 Blog interview: By John Pototscnick, April 2014 Podcast interviews: Carl Olson, Episode 6, The Artful Painter, ‘Breaking the Force Field’ Eric Rhodes , Plein Air Podcast, Episode 84, July 2018. Antrese Wood, The Savvy Painter, Episode 41, The Artist Road, ‘Voices of Experience’, January 2015.