Want to paint looser and more abstractly? If you have struggled with this, the Fast and Loose Landscape workshop may be for you.
You will explore loosening up your mark making and moving toward abstraction of the landscape, while keeping one foot in the representation of the scene. Color choices and mixing will be discussed. You will work with a limited palette that will be surprisingly flexible and expansive.
Class begins at 9:30 with a slide orientation outlining the workshop. Suzette will demonstrate techniques and lead you through exercises. Pics of landscapes will be supplied but it is recommended you bring photos of a landscape dear to you. Ultimately, you will work from memory to create your final piece but, the photos help with the exercises and serve as a reference.
Materials List:
Must have:
- A Bristol pad, Vellum or Smooth, as big as you please but not smaller than 11x14
- A graphite pencil
- 3 inexpensive 11x14 or larger canvases
- masking tape
- acrylic paints (even the small $2 craft bottles work great. Don’t over spend for an exercise)
- Blue (ultramarine or cobalt)
- Yellow (cadmium or primary like hue)
- Red (cadmium or primary like hue)
- larger bottle Titanium White
- Payne’s Grey (may not find in cheap bottle- ok to get tube)
- Palette and palette paper
- water container
- 3 different sized brushes (bring what you have! a thin one for lines, big one for large spaces)
- water spray bottle
- any tools you can use to scrape (palette knife, credit card, etc)
- Bring a few photos of landscapes that move you. Ideally a place that is familiar to you. I will also supply pics.
Don’t fret about the list. We will make it work by sharing and improvising.
Nice to have:
- pastels, oil or soft
- ink tense pencils
- Cran d’arche Neocolor crayons or like product
- any other colors of acrylic paint we will use VERY sparingly for accents
Suzette Lebenzon is a contemporary landscape painter based on Cape Cod. Her work explores a variety of settings; the intimate environs of overgrown gardens, the meticulous designs of botanical gardens and arboretums; the mystery of the woods; and the expanse of the coastline. Using unconventional color choices, bold mark making, layering of paint, and vigorous scraping and scratching for texture, Lebenzon creates work that surprises and provokes engagement.
Lebenzon has exhibited widely. Currently her work can be found at AM Zehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; BBLG Gallery in Smithtown, NY; and Portico Atlas, in NYC. She was made a signature member of NAWA in 2023 and also was the recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Unrestricted Artist Grant that same year. This year, she was accepted in to the Copley Society of Art, as a professional member.
Her work hangs in a prominent pediatric Boston hospital, medical offices and numerous private and corporate collections.
Born in Massachusetts, Suzette received her art training at Vermont College at Norwich University.
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