With one foot firmly planted in the representation of the landscape, Suzette’s other foot dances in the curious world of abstraction. Experimentation into the exaggeration of shape, the dynamics of color, and the use of lines and marks, will be demonstrated by Lebenzon in each session. Suzette will escort the group through a step by step creation of a piece. Then, participants will be guided on their own painting journeys, encouraged to adopt techniques revealed in this workshop. Bring photos of landscape that speaks to you, or use images provided by the instructor. Your pieces will speak to your feelings and memory of a place, not a recreation of a site. You will be painting, scratching, masking, blotting, and hopefully having lots of fun! It’s all about the expression of a loved environment, playing with the materials, and discovery.
About the Instructor: Suzette Lebenzon
Suzette Lebenzon has painted since her childhood in Scituate, MA. She has kept a studio and shown in galleries most of her adult life. Her home and studio are in Wellfleet.
Suzette was a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council’s Unrestricted Artists’ Grants. In 2023, Suzette was inducted to the National Association of Women Artists, as a Signature Member. Her work has been curated into shows at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Scollay Square Gallery in Boston’s City Hall, and the Galatea Fine Art Gallery in SOWA.
She is represented by the AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; and the BBLG Gallery in Smithtown, NY.
Materials List:
-Acrylic paint (starter set or bring what you have)
-3 brushes, different shapes and S, M, L. Have one be a 1-2 inch (cheap!) flat house painting brush, one be a rigger or round brush you like for detail, last one be a midsize brush (size 4-6, round or flat).
-Any tools with which you could create texture(palette knife, knitting needle, comb, toothpicks)
-straight edge you will get covered in paint (ruler, plastic sheet, cardboard panels)
-masking or painter’s tape and scissors of knife to cut
-5 cradled wood panels for painting surface (Micheal’s has inexpensive 5 packs, get a size you like: 10x10, 8x10, or 11x14)
-Pad of Bristol paper, velum surface or smooth. We will use 1-2 each class.
-All the things you like in your paint kit: palette , paper towels, water container… you know the drill.
