STILL LIFE PAINTING

STILL LIFE PAINTING

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37 Buena Vista Road West Hartford, CT 06107 United States

Upper Schoolhouse (Brick Building)

Beginning - Intermediate

9/13/2019-11/15/2019

9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Fri

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$200.00

$180.00

Description: In this eight-week class students learn new strategies to create a beautiful and realistic still-life painting. We'll look at composition and design to explore many principles of art such as balance, unity, and emphasis. A material list will be provided upon registration.

Methods: This is a studio class designed by demonstration, studio-work and individual development format. All assignments promote strong perceptual, technical, and analytical skills. In class, students begin and finish their work painting mostly from observation using a still-life set up.

Objective: This class is designed to explore, experiment, and become more familiar with the representational approach to painting. Students will understand and successfully implement formal elements of art such as form, value, and color into a two-dimensional format.

  • There will be no class on Oct. 18 + 25.
  • Suggested material list
  • Oils Standard Pallet:
  • NAPLES YELLOW
  • YELLOW OCHRE
  • VENETIAN RED
  • CAD YELLOW LIGHT
  • CAD YELLOW DEEP
  • CAD RED LIGHT
  • CAD RED DEEP
  • PHTHALO BLUE
  • ULTRAMARINE BLUE
  • RAW UMBER
  • BURNT UMBER
  • ALIZARINE CRIMSON
  • IVORY BACK
  • TITANIUM WHITE (*200ml)
  • Other materials:
  • PAINT BRUSHES # 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 (natural or synthetic hair)
  • CANVASES (9”x12”) OR LARGER
  • METAL PAINTING KNIFE (2 inches triangular tip)
  • PAINTING PALETTE (disposable)
  • TWO CONTAINERS
  • PAPER TOWELS
  • PENCIL # 2B

Tiago Finato moved to the United States from Brazil in the year 2000 to further his research in the field of painting. First trained in the 19th century French academic style, Tiago went on to earn a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an MFA from New Mexico State University. In his work, Tiago explores the overlap between the labor of contemporary art and the labor of the working class. His current body of work narrates a scenario where the subject is caught between these two conflicting ideologies, those of a manual laborer and a fine artist. Finato has exhibited his work throughout the United States, Spain and Brazil. Tiago just had two pieces accepted in the Portrait Society of America members only competition. His portrait placed as a finalist, and his still life placed 2nd.