Contemporary Painting - Aesthetic Decisions
Adult Workshop | Registration opens 8/6/2025 8:00 PM EDT
Contemporary art for-all-levels is about the joy of painting in acrylic or oils. We start “alla prima” by filling the canvas expressively. New skills, new color combinations, new style and composition bring charm and presence to your painting. Explore narrative, realism, and abstracting, as you paint from your images or the provided still-life. Warm-up exercises build skills. With the help of a teacher guide, you can consider and manipulate areas and learn to make choices that will reward you.
Instructor will review necessary supplies in first class, including the 5 brushes; only materials required initially are paper and 4 colors of paint. Print phone photos of your travel, friends, events, and experiences to use for painting inspiration. Please note: no class 10/13
- Please note: This class is 7 sessions
Materials: Bring medium paper or canvases, 16x20 or bigger, paint, brushes. Professor experienced in watercolor, acrylic, oils, collage.
Alexa MacCrady
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.