Photo to Painting: Create Memorable Art
Workshop | Available
“Color gets the credit, but value does the work!” What does it mean? During this intensive workshop, students will dive into the world of values with master-of-the-limited-palette, Charlie Hunter. Using reference photographs as a starting point, this class will focus on how to make values, edges, and composition work to build stronger paintings. Rather than immediately working photo-to-painting, Hunter shares his process with students as he guides them through the often-overlooked steps of creating value drawings from photographs before creating paintings based on the drawings. With these drawings students will be able to develop memorable and dynamic paintings. By simplifying forms and emphasizing composition, students’ work can take on a power that will truly make it stand out. Demos by Hunter will show how he goes about creating his award-winning work. Students are sure to leave this class laughing, challenged, and armed with an arsenal of tools to strengthen their painting and create the best work of their life. www.charliehunter.art www.hunter-studio.com
Charlie Hunter
Using water-mixable oils and a reductive technique based on 19th century tonalism informed by modern reproduction processes, Charlie Hunter explores textual and graphic elements of contemporary representationalism. Organic yet irrevocably hinting at photography, Hunter’s work is simultaneously journalistic and deeply subjective. He lives and works in Bellows Falls, Vermont, 20 miles from where he grew up on the highland farm built by his great-great-great grandfather. "If it is within the realm of human evolution, or the whim of the Divine, to allow one individual to possess the gift of a natural sense of design, then Charlie Hunter is certainly the lucky winner... No master of the pure line can surpass what Charlie, almost matter-of-factly, does when he takes pencil in hand.” – Richard Schmid, ALLA PRIMA II. He exhibits at museums and galleries across the US and has been profiled in ARTSCOPE, VERMONT LIFE and PLEIN AIR. Curiously, his two cats remain entirely unimpressed.