Painting Methods for Photorealism

Painting Methods for Photorealism

Adult Online Art | Available

All Levels
5/7/2025-5/21/2025
10:00 AM-1:00 PM on Wed
$300.00

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Painting Methods for Photorealism

Adult Online Art | Available

Online on Zoom | 3 Wednesdays - May 7,14,21 2025 | 10am-1pm Arizona Time (always on Mountain Standard Time | recording will be available for 2 months

In this class I will be teaching some of my painting methods I have found essential over the years. Covered topics will include board surface prep, drawing techniques and materials, importance of values and color, designing a still life and composing with light, and painting techniques. 

The first class will focus on board preparation, gesso, designing your image, and how to use graphite and white charcoal to create a full gradation drawing to paint on top of.

Second class will be order of operations in painting. Tools I use and techniques.

 Third class will be finishing up and final touches and discussing varnish. At the end of each class will be a critique for those who want it.

Schieffer, John
John Schieffer

Objective

To create thought provoking art that is both pleasing to the eye and the mind.

Why do artists create the things they do? Not too many ask why an artist paints a landscape or flowers or a beautiful person Clearly, everyone sees beauty in different things or circumstances. But an artist sees it where others might not, even in the most mundane. For my own work I often choose to paint those things that I think should be given a second glance, ordinary things that come alive when you shine a light on them. Each painting has its own life and meaning. That meaning for the artist is not going to be the same for the viewer as we are all different. How I feel about a painting I have created changes over time, but the reason I started it remains always the same - to make something beautiful and express strong emotional content, to share with others the way I see the world and objects of life.  Finding the meaning of each piece of art is a journey into the artist’s soul not easily put into words, but that is why I am a painter and not a writer. 

 

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