COMPOSITION CRASH COURSE
Composition for Artists
Hi,
The Holidays are here and you have my best wishes for surviving them without relational damage.
When the New Year begins, I will teach THE CREATIVE PROCESS on Jan 4 – stories, slides and lessons to help you work in ways that release your creative genius rather than choke it. It will be in Brea, 6-9pm, for $30.
Jan 6-8 will be the COMPOSITION CRASH COURSE – $120 for three nights of the most concentrated seminar of how masters compose than you will find anywhere on planet earth. Go read:
http://www.marshallart.com/seminars/info/composition/
Registration is open for both classes. Hope to see you then, in good spirits for having celebrated or endured the holidays,
Marshall
www.marshallart.com
| Session 1 | The Role of Composition; Abstraction & Feeling; Metaphor; Consonance |
|---|---|
| Session 2 | Balance; Dominance; Light & Dark Massing; Contrast |
| Session 3 | Continuity; Rhythm & Pattern; Transition & Counterchange |
One of the most baffling problems for students of creativity is how to make decisions while painting — whether to make something lighter or darker or bigger or smaller or brighter or duller. These are the problems of composition, problems that did not bother any of us when we were children — we composed instinctively. Great artists also compose instinctively, but not as children, rather as grown-ups who are able to get their vision into pictures with grown-up wisdom and skill.
This course is designed to open your eyes to how pictures are “little worlds” that reflect your tastes and sensibilities. I will teach you how the great masters of the past learned from nature, learned from other masters, and grew in their skills until they could turn their feelings into forms that emotionally move their viewers.
For those of you who took my Drawing from the Masters classes where we studied the paintings of great masters, this is the same material boiled down into a crash-course. This material can be a major mind-shift for some people. Be ready — you will learn.
Materials:
Bring a sketchpad and a mechanical pencil or pen or some other non-messy point media. No charcoal or dusty media or anything that leaves shavings.Notes:
Notes:
This is not a university curriculum course and you will not receive college credit for it.