Fall Weekly Workshops
Ox-Bow's weekly courses are ideal for busy individuals interested in creating, learning, and sharing at Ox-Bow this fall. Please see the course descriptions for details on class times as schedules do vary. All courses are open to students ages 16 years and above.
Portraiture
Tuesday nights, September 9, 16, 23 and 30th
6:30-8:30 pm
with James Brandess
$170 for 4 weeks, $50 per session
Using paint, a light, and a live model, we will consider drawing, value, color, and the issue of relationship, for the purpose of creating both physical likeness and non-physical truth. The work of present day as well as historical figure painters will be presented and discussed.
Life Drawing
Thursday nights, September 18 & September 25, October 2 & October 9
6:30-8:30 pm
with Dawn Stafford
$170
This workshop will emphasize the development of drawing as an individual art form and discipline. A variety of different drawing mediums (ink, charcoal and conte crayon, etc.) will be used to explore the inherent qualities of value, line, gesture and expression. Thoughts on the practice of drawing, technical problem solving, and interpretation will be explored. Students will work from nude models.
Watercolor: Capturing Light
Saturdays (three): September 27, from 1:30-4 pm;
October 4, from 9-11:30 am; October 11, from 5:30-8 pm.
with Mae Van Ark
$160
Inspired by Monet’s Haystack paintings, beginning and advanced painters will be invited to explore the varying fall light on the Ox-Bow campus, through this unique watercolor course. With class occurring at different times of day on consecutive weekends, we will explore techniques in capturing depth of tone and color as the light and landscape change. We will also explore pictorial fundamentals such as composition, focal points, and perspective. Individual and group critiques will round out the course.