Advanced Painting: Dissecting Space with Carol Rubin

Advanced Painting: Dissecting Space with Carol Rubin

Class | Available

2129 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Room 3A
Advanced
4/10/2025-6/12/2025
10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Th
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$495.00

Advanced Painting: Dissecting Space with Carol Rubin

Class | Available

Your painting can approach new levels of strength through a fuller understanding of the undergirding structure that helps the world within your painting feel real.  Could you, or maybe an ant, take a walk through your painting without falling off?  Are there entry and exit points? Such spacial considerations will bring your work to a higher level whether you are working realistically, abstractly or somewhere in between.  We will take a look at what elements are available to us to deepen space, flatten or distort space.   How do we reconcile space with the flat surface?  How did Renaissance artists define the structure of space?  What lessons can we take or leave from them?  What concepts can we take from modern and contemporary artists such as Cezanne or DeKooning? 

In this class we will meet you where you are in your art practice and delve deeper into issues of space making as a path to solidified paintings.  Through novel longer-term painting projects we will mine the many aspects of color that affect space-making as well as use of planes to create structural connections through space, and examine the roll the mark can play.

  •  Materials List - These are the materials you will need to bring with you for this class.

    Paint:

    Titanium White 150ml

    Alizarin Crimson 37ml

    Cadmium Red Medium 37ml

    Yellow Ochre 37ml

    Cadmium Yellow Medium 37ml

    Naples Yellow 37ml

    Lemon Yellow OR Cadmium Yellow Light 37ml

    Cerulean Blue 37ml

    Cobalt Blue 37ml

    Prussian Blue 37ml

    French Ultramarine 37ml

    Sap Green 37ml

    Viridian 37ml

    Burnt Sienna 37ml

    Burnt Umber 37ml

    Raw Umber 37ml


    Optional Paint:

    Quinacridone Violet (Optional)

    Cadmium Orange 37ml (Optional)

    Naphthol Red 37ml (Optional)

    Indian Yellow 37ml (Optional)

    Zinc White OR Transparent White 37ml (Optional/highly recommended)


    Suggested (though not required):

    R&F pigment oil stick R&F Pigment Sticks - Half Sticks, Set of 3, 19 ml sticks | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)


    Brushes:

    Rounds: Size 6,8,10

    Flats: 12, 16

    Filberts: 6,8

    Brights 4,6,10

    Cheap hog hair brushes from hardware store, 2 inch, 3 inch

    Palette Knives- different shapes and sizes- at least one large.

     

    Mediums:

    Stand Oil 8oz

    Gamsol

    Safflower Oil (from market)

     

    Surfaces:

    Cotton Duck Canvas, stretched and primed.

    (You will be working on several large canvases over the term.  Bring one to first class.)

     

    Misc.:                               

    PALETTE: 18X24 (or larger) piece of glass mounted on foam core and taped with duct tape on the edges.

    Notebook/Sketchbook

    Artist Tape/Blue Tape or Frog Tape

    Glass Jars with lids (minimum 3)

     

    Paper Towels - for personal use while painting

    Dish Soap - for personal use to clean brushes

     

    This link will take you to the Abstract Painting class materials on Blick, which uses the same materials as Advanced Painting.  If you do not want to stretch and prime your own canvas, you can buy pre-stretched and pre-primed canvases locally.  Plaza Art has decent canvases that will be on sale. 

    https://www.dickblick.com/lists/blicku/JF2H86GRRHPS5


Carol Rubin