New York Studio School
of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture
Sunday Afternoon Painting – VIRTUAL with Jonathan Harkham
Fall 2021
Teacher: Jonathan Harkham
Class Hours: Sundays, 2pm-6pm (Eastern US Time)
First Class: Sunday, September 26, 2021
Last Class: Sunday, December 12, 2021
Contact Info: info@jonathanharkham.com
Course Description
Painting from what we really see (as opposed to what we think we see), we will develop an experiential painting process that relies upon the act of looking, and discover that by utilizing these means, our personal experience can at once be registered and preserved within the very paint itself. Using still life set-ups and live models (via Zoom), students will create experiential paintings directly from observation, to tell the story of mass, gravity, and spatial materiality. Starting with the rectangle and the four sides of a flat surface, we will search the forms and find pathways using objective observation to relate back to that rectangle. General information will give way to a very specific experience, once we lose our brain’s interpretation of what it is we are looking at and start to make marks that directly correspond to our own unique and true experience.
All levels welcome. I am aware that some students can be somewhat intimidated by painting so I break down the information in a clear and basic way most people find easy to understand.
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