Turn Your Painting Around
Adult Class | Available
People are taking online painting lessons since the pandemic. But what happens when the painting needs help and you need advice? This for-all-levels class is what you might ask for: problem solving! Learn new skills and color combinations, explore realism, narrative, and abstracting away from a subject composition. Choose photos from your cell phone about your life and print them. In class, we start "alla prima" and we fill the canvas expressively at the beginning to capture ideas. Then we consider more slowly, and manipulate areas. With the help of a teacher guide you can learn to make choices that will give you rewarding results in painting, drawing, image-making and collage. Please note: no class 01/20.
Supplies List: The photos in your phone provide exciting subjects, so please print 5 favorites to choose from 8.5 x 11 inches. Bring supplies you have in your medium, plus paper for quick intro sketches. Supplies suggestions will be made in first class.
Lexa McCrady
LEXA MCCRADY AXON has taught painting, drawing, and printmaking since 1987 and shown work in NYC, Paris, Tokyo, and London. She holds a MFA from the City University of New York Hunter College. She is a student of Valerie Jaudon, Robert Morris, and art theorist Rosalind Krauss. She received individual artist grants from New England Foundation for the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY. Exhibitions include Smith College, Parrish Museum, East Village NY; Biennials of Sao Paolo and Everson Museum. She is Adjunct Faculty at Eastern CT State University in digital art.