A still-life workshop
WITH CATHERINE KEHOE
Five meetings
Wednesdays
June 18
June 25
July 1 WE MEET ON TUESDAY THIS WEEK
July 9
July 16
July 16
2025
1 — 4:30 p.m. eastern time
ONLINE WORKSHOP: Still life can be anything. Within this wide-open genre, we will focus on some fundamental painting principles. Participants will build and light their own inventive and personal setups, and have a week between meetings to explore a series of exercises. Time lends depth to the painted image and frees us to pare down to the essential.
The exercises include:
• Mapping the relationships between objects and the rectangle, using a specific drawing method.
• Exploring different limited palettes to discover the nature of a few paint colors at a time, in terms of opacity, transparency, and relative tinting strength.
• Shape will be central to our approach. Reducing the motif to10-15 shapes will place the focus on color mixing and accurate value structure.
The emphasis will be on observation. Metaphor or personal meaning will come in through the back door. Suggested medium: oil paint
We will meet on Zoom and share work on Padlet, an online platform.