Long Still Life with Francisco Galárraga
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Historically, artists used still lifes to tell stories or explore deep meaning. During the Dutch Golden Age, these paintings often contained symbolic items—such as a skull to represent the transience of life or a half-peeled lemon to show that even beautiful things have a bitter side. Cézanne painted simple subjects repeatedly to experiment with multiple view points in a composition. Still life allows an artist maximum freedom to manipulate lighting, texture, and shapes, and to truly look at the beauty and complexity of everyday things.
This intermediate to advanced painting course focuses on the naturalistic representation of an object or a group of objects. The focus of the class is to get accurate representation of the objects that they are observing, and gradually develop a more personal style using composition, color and mark-making.
We will work from four still lifes during the class:
1st still life will be one session in length, 2nd still life will be two sessions in length, 3rd still life will be three sessions in length and the 4th still life will be 4 sessions in length; each subsequent still life painting will grow in complexity and amount of objects.
- This class is highly recommended for certificate students of all levels.
A limited number of lockers are available to WSS Students with priority to those enrolled in Painting classes. Lockers are assigned by WSS Staff.
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Your instructor has provided a list of materials required to participate fully in this class.
If you have any questions about specifics or what is needed week-to-week, please reach out to your instructor via the email in your confirmation letter.
Please use this supply list as a recommended painting list:
https://www.dickblick.com/myaccount/wishlist/3H5AD8X2LOU4H/- 4 Canvas/Painting Panels (Small to Medium in Size, the student is allowed to choose their preferred format)
- Oil paint is encouraged but not mandatory; students can use acrylics or even watercolor if they so desire.
Francisco Galárraga
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