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Abstracts
- Teacher: Fran O’Neill
- Class Length: 8 Week Class Session
- Start Date: Wednesdays, begins October 9
- Time: 1:30 – 4:30 pm PDT
This class is designed to examine and push the boundaries of abstraction via composition. The ‘journey’ is the process, and it is expected that a participant will come with a willingness to experiment and to see the ‘process’ as the act, rather than looking for a final product.
A variety of strategies will be explored. It is hoped that by delving into different approaches, this will lead each artist to find a new (or expand upon current) visual language/vocabulary that may be used further, during and following the course.
Issues of scale, tiny to huge; the use of different formats will be challenged. We will experiment with the use of the rectangle, questioning the traditional idea.
Various ideas of space will be discussed, and the implications of these different kinds of space(s) and other compositional elements including, but not limited to: shape, texture, collage, as well as other languages and mediums within abstraction.
The quality of the image will be investigated. Individual ideas for a “powerful image” will be discussed and hopefully identified. Additionally strategies to address content and materials will be considered. Other structural ideas will be addressed, including the use of the grid, the organic spiral and geometry, all of which play a part in research into the language of abstraction.
There will be one:one discussion of the work throughout class, as well as group critiques.
Materials and supplies
Don’t sweat it! Whatever you have on hand is great!
- Smart phone or camera
- Brushes: A large selection of rounds from small sable to large house painting rounds
- Drawing paper, pencils and charcoal
- Scissors
Canvases
All sizes are suggestions, not requirements for this class. Whatever you have on hand is great.
- 2-3 small canvases – roughly 14” x 18” or 18” x 24”
- 2-3 medium canvas’ – roughly 28”x 34” or 30” x 48”-
Paints
Artist’s Choice: Oil, Acrylic, or Watercolor paints
Suggested Paint Colors
All colors are suggested, but are not requirements for this class. Whatever you have on hand is great. Suggested colors are listed in order of placement around the palette:
- Flake (or zinc) White
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Ochre
Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Red Light OR Medium
Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Magenta
Caput Mortem Violet OR Indian Red
Windsor Violet (W&N) (Dioxazine Violet)
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Cerulean Blue
Viridian
Cadmium Green Deep
Terre Verde
Raw Umber
Ivory Black
Peach Black
Image by Fran O’Neill
