MITCH ALBALA: PASTELS/OIL

REAL WORLD COMPOSITION FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PAINTERS
APRIL 4-6
FULL WORKSHOP PRICE: $325
DEPOSIT: $100

For many artists, composition remains the most elusive area or their practice. Why? Because its energies are fundamentally abstract and often hidden beneath the surface of the painting. The goal of this 3-day workshop is to make the invisible visible — to discover the underlying energies that drive a composition. The workshop takes a “real world” approach to composition by learning to work with the shapes and forces we actually see. Working from both photographs and life, with practical exercises, ongoing critiques, and analysis of master compositions, you will learn: how value differences are used to identify the shapes the composition is built upon; the essential principle of variation and intervals; the power of the “picture window” in selection and arrangement; movement and directional energy; and how to activate negative space. Principles like balance, rhythm, unity, and variation are explored, but only as they apply to “real world” representational problems.

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Payment is for deposit only. Balance will be due 30 days prior to beginning of workshop.