Paint from Your Experiences and Snapshots
Adult Class | Registration opens 2/19/2025 8:00 PM EST
Contemporary art brings Life Experience to image-making. Spring means fresh yellow-greens in a bright outdoorsy landscape. This for-all-levels class is just the thing: painting, layout and composition, and problem solving. And if you're in the mood to learn new skills and color mixing, there's a contemporary colorful still life set-up. Explore new styles in realism, or abstracting from a subject. Start alla prima to capture ideas, and then consider 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, collage, image-making.
- 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 own in your medium, plus paper for quick intro sketches. More supplies suggestions will be made in first class. You can also bring 3-5 previous paintings you'd like to discuss.
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.