Winter 2023 : Lecture : The World of Giotto: Dr. Sara N. James
The world of Giotto – Early Italian Paintings: 14th Century. The rebirth of naturalism and narrative fresco painting begins at Assisi in the late thirteenth century and spreads from there to Florence, Orvieto and elsewhere in Central Italy. Discover the origins of the style and enjoy the marvelous storytelling!
Winter 2023 : Lecture : Renaissance Venice: Dr. Sara N. James
As the perfect introduction to the exhibition “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice,” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from November 20, 2022 – February 12, 2023, BSSS is pleased to offer four lectures on Early Renaissance Painting in Venice, from the Bellinis to Carpaccio. The lectures begin with Jacopo Bellini, gifted founder of the dynasty of Venetian painters of the Renaissance. It’s also the birth of oil painting, the use of canvas as support, and the ancestor of painting as we know it today.
Visit the the NGA website on Vittore Carpaccio – https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html
Vittore Carpaccio, Saint Augustine in His Study, shortly after 1502, oil and tempera on canvas, Scuola Dalmata dei Santi Giorgio e Trifone, Venice
Photo credit: Matteo De Fina
Winter 2023 : Workshop : Vitreous Enamel workshop – Abstraction and Enamel Panels: Janly Jaggard
2 day workshop for beginner enamelers.
Enameling has so many technical prerequisites that often prevent room for innovation and aesthetics to be explored. I will walk you through the technical but focus on methods of exploring all the medium offers using firescale, fluxes, transparents and opaques, screens and stencils .
There is anticipation that each student will produce at least one resolved piece of work.
Maximum of 4 students.
Materials and equipment to bring:
- Sketchbook and notebook
- Drawings and /or personal photosS
- Sharp blades for cutting paper
- Slick newsprint (from giveaway newspapers)
- Small brushes
Winter 2023 : Workshop : Artist Lock In – DO NOT DISTURB: Janly Jaggard
This offering is about Time and Space, uninterrupted!!!! Janly Jaggard will provide artists with space for a TWO day of uninterrupted studio experience. She will function as coordinator, not instructor. Focus for the weekend will be on YOUR OWN WORK: each participant will use this time to be totally away from external distractions but have the support, feedback and community of a maximum of 9 others as we plan for critique amongst ourselves.
Winter 2023 : Class : Advanced Skills in Watercolor: Peg Sheridan
Are you ready to move up to the next level with your watercolor paintings? This class will help you to take that jump. We will start by identifying stumbling blocks and bad habits, and learning how to overcome them. From there, we will work on planning for a painting.
We will also practice essential skills, such as: designing an interesting painting, advanced brush skills, painting wet-in-wet, layering and glazing, adding textures, and painting “alla prima”. The subject matter will be your choice. Weekly homework assignments will help you to make rapid progress. Peg will also offer demonstrations, one on one help, and colored worksheets. A materials list will be sent.
Winter 2023 : Class : Art as Exploration: Critique and Inspiration: Robert Stuart
Participants’ work in any media, including 3-D, will be reviewed with constructive criticism to foster a deepening discernment of strengths and challenges.
The class includes a visual presentation and discussion of works by historical and contemporary artists, especially from current museum and gallery exhibitions and art reviews.
By broadening awareness of our cultural heritage, we enrich our own works, gain new insights to develop our own voice.
Minimum number of students: 6 – maximum: 9
“I love this class so much because I get to see what other people do and I value the input given about my work. Plus I learn so much from being exposed to the many works you show us. Thanks for all your effort.” Nina Ozbey
Winter 2023 : Class : The Next Step. A Short Course in Studio Practice: Janly Jaggard
If you have learned about the principles of design and the formal elements, you may want to build on those basics and work towards personal style. In this short series of intense studio classes we can search for what interests you most about medium, method and subject. You might want to work towards abstraction or developing your color palette or work large drawings of observed spaces. Anything is possible provided you have serious intent.
I will discuss work with each student one-on-one so your journey is personal to your own objectives although class critique and discussion are part of the program.
Students will be strongly encouraged to work independently between the 3 class meetings and to share that work with the class.
Minimum number of students: 5 – maximum: 10
Winter 2023 : Class : Beginner/ Intermediate Draw and Paint – Session II: Janly Jaggard
This course puts emphasis on drawing and painting from observation as the essential means by which we understand the formal elements and how to apply them to our practice as beginner artists. Drawing is where to begin and continues to be a critical process throughout one’s art journey regardless of medium or genre.
This 5 week course is also suited for intermediate students who wish to begin developing personal style with work that begins with visual research but can be taken in several directions.
Each student is taught one-on-one which allows for personalized projects, mainly focusing on drawing mediums or painting in acrylics or oils.
Minimum: 5 – maximum: 10
Winter 2023 : Class : Beginner/ Intermediate Draw and Paint – Session I: Janly Jaggard
This course puts emphasis on drawing and painting from observation as the essential means by which we understand the formal elements and how to apply them to our practice as beginner artists. Drawing is where to begin and continues to be a critical process throughout one’s art journey regardless of medium or genre.
This 5 week course is also suited for intermediate students who wish to begin developing personal style with work that begins with visual research but can be taken in several directions.
Each student is taught one-on-one which allows for personalized projects, mainly focusing on drawing mediums or painting in acrylics or oils.
Minimum: 5 – maximum: 10
Spring 2022 : Workshop : Celebrating the Natural World through Prints!: d’Ann de Simone
During the first day of our workshop, we will each create a series of drawings that are inspired by the “natural world.” During the second day, we will turn our drawings into prints using the linocut technique — cutting our designs into linoleum blocks, which are then inked and printed onto paper. We will exchange our prints, so that each participant leaves with a suite of images.
We can imagine the subject matter, the natural world, in broad rather than in specific terms. I will prompt participants to challenge their usual ideas of the “natural world” by combining new compositional elements culled from books and the web. Projects will address both the abstract and representational interpretations of Nature and both the macro and the micro.
Among artists we will reference is Ernst Haeckel of the Art Nouveau movement, whose famed series of prints depicting microorganisms, animals and insects sought to link art with science. These works were widely acclaimed and influential during 20th century, leaving a mark seen clearly through the Art Deco movement and well beyond in design, painting, architecture and other disciplines.
Day one will focus on drawing.
Day two will focus on printing.
NOTE: Students will need to bring drawing pad, pens and erasers; workshop fee includes linoleum, brayers, ink and linoleum cutters.
Spring 2022 : Workshop : Plein Air Painting in Watercolor: Peg Sheridan
Discover the joy of painting outside, and visit some of the prettiest places in our area! You will be amazed at how painting en plein air will increase your skill. We will learn tools for distilling a complicated scene into connected shapes and values. Peg will share various methods and tools for plein air painting, and will do demonstrations on site. You will choose what you paint. Soon all of your paintings, en plein air or in the studio, will improve. Subject matter will vary. We will meet outside at a predetermined location each day, unless the weather is bad (when we will meet in the studio). The instructor will offer critiques and individual help. A materials list will be provided.
Spring 2022 : Workshop : Rocks and Water Workshop: Peg Sheridan
Learn how to paint still and moving water, in this two day workshop. Peg will teach you the techniques needed to paint water through demonstrations, step by step color worksheets, and individual help. Peg will emphasize planning your paintings with value sketches, color plans, and designing good compositions. She will also share how to paint convincing rocks, trees, and other elements of the surrounding landscape. Bring photos of lakes, rivers, streams, waterfalls, etc.
Register by April 2.
Please contact me if you have any questions, concerns or special needs. I look forward to working with you. –Peg Sheridan www.pegsheridan.com
Spring 2022 : Workshop : Color and Composition in Still Life: DARREN KINGSLEY
In this workshop, students will create Still Life paintings from life using traditional impressionist techniques over the course of two days. Emphasis will be placed on large shape drawing, value control, and accurate form-based color. Class discussions will include how to accurately judge values, Color Study, handling of edges, and using simple and complex forms while working from life as well as composition theory.
Darren will demo in the morning each day and the students will work the remainder of the day with guided instruction.
Schedule
Day 1
- Demo in the morning
- Full Color painting for the remainder of the day.
Day 2
- Demo in the morning
- Students may either continue their painting from the previous day or start a new composition.
Spring 2022 : Workshop : Painting the Impressionist Portrait: DARREN KINGSLEY
In this workshop, students will create portrait paintings from life using traditional techniques over the course of two days. Emphasis will be placed on large shape drawing, value control, and accurate form-based color. Class discussions will include how to accurately judge values, value compression, handling of edges, and using simple and complex forms while working from life as well as anatomy and abstract facial structure
Darren will demo from the model in the morning each day and the students will work the remainder of the day with guided instruction.
Schedule
Day 1
- Demo in the morning
- Full Color painting from the live model for the remainder of the day.
Day 2
- Demo in the morning
- Full Color painting from the live model for the remainder of the day.
Spring 2022 : Class : Painting Interiors: Abstracting the Everyday: Laura Vahlberg
If you look at a white wall in a dark room, is the color really white? In this weekend workshop we will talk about how to mix nameless colors (like a white wall in a dark room). In doing this we will also discuss value, temperature and hue and how they can work together to create a feeling like reality. For inspiration we will look at images from art history and to Charles Hawthorne’s revelatory book Hawthorne on Painting.
In addition to color mixing there will be a strong focus on composition. How does an artist assemble shapes and colors on a picture plane in a way that immediately intrigues the eye? We will practice techniques that can help to strengthen the artist’s compositional eye and then address how to tie together observation and abstraction.