Ken will discuss strategies for creating better artworks with a variety of common and creative tools. The workshop will focus on concepts for making better starts, compelling artworks, going to new places in your work, and how to make fine art.
Together, we will be going deeper into the how-to of making more appealing artworks with a variety of ideas and tools. After the day's sessions, the group is invited to further discussions and dinner.
After the Sunday session, Ken will present Photoshop techniques for taking your works to the next level and creating better pathways for finishing your artworks. You will be given a simplified Photoshop guide and have access to a large photo file of over 2000 inspiring artworks. Ken will demonstrate painting using oil and pastels, if requested. In addition to making art works, Ken will talk about business and promotion, necessary tools for success in the marketplace.
There will be serious discussions, laughs, and your questions with more continuing after class hours. We will all come away with new tools to take your art to the next level. Ample time will be given to live problem solving, daily critiques and creative options. We won’t be pushing to make completed works during this short time. Rather, we will be looking at making good starts and strategies for going beyond your comfort level.
Artist Statement:
“From an early age, I’ve been fortunate to have seen remarkably good works of art and met some of the best painters in the field.
My friendships with Wolf Kahn and Forrest Moses along with Wolf’s master classes have been invaluable.
The paintings I create are rarely portraits of places but rather, they are investigations into color and composition. My goal is to create something more remarkable and outside the familiar scene. To do that, many ideas and moves are used to alter nature in exaggerated, but somehow believable ways.
If successful, what emerges is art that is expressive, apart from the everyday and filled with life and joyfully, II never tire of chasing that goal.
To learn more about Ken Elliot visit https://www.kenelliott.com/about
Supply List:
Write out the things you want to get from this class.
You are invited to bring whatever you wish to paint with and work on. Bring works to start, works in progress, and finished works to evaluate. You won’t need many images, just a few to begin with.
Art supplies: Easel, paints, brushes, palette knives if you choose, and minimal supplies and accessories that you typically paint with. Don’t overload yourself. We can share.
One sheet of any paper, copy paper at 8 1/2 x 11 will do fine, along with any kind of pencil in graphite or pastel, charcoal stick etc. We will be doing one abstract drawing exercise and it will be useful to have something to draw with that is more expressive than a pencil.
Canvas (large is good: 30 x30 canvas, 30 x 40, 36 x 36 etc.) or reasonably large paper for acrylic studies or pastels.
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