Painting as Process
February 25 – April 1, 2025 | 1:30–4 p.m.
Location: Red Workshop, Greene Family Education Center
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The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
Learn to paint from life and from imagination while looking to the museum’s collection for inspiration. Participants with an intermediate-level skillset will develop their artistic styles as they explore a variety of painting techniques, including underpainting, sgraffito, and glazing. Study elements of art like color, composition, form, value, and line, and enjoy opportunities to share work with one another while receiving feedback from a professional teaching artist.
Week 1: Begin with an outline of the painting methods that will be explored. Participate in a series of exercises exploring brushstrokes, form, value, and color mixing.
Week 2: Explore artworks in the museum’s collection and develop compositions from observation. Learn how to create an underpainting as you begin a new work on canvas.
Week 3: Continue to study underpainting, and experiment with applying paint in layers and glazes to gain a broader understanding of color theory.
Week 4: Create paintings from life experience or imagination, developing imagery that is either representational or abstract. Choose techniques and painting methods that best fit your composition and the goals for your personal projects.
Week 5: Combine a selection of painting methods explored in previous classes to develop your projects. Continue to study color theory, value, and line as you develop the subject, form, and content of your paintings.
Week 6: Wrap up individual projects. Then, join your classmates in a final group critique as we conclude our time together with a reflection on the techniques we have learned and the skills we’ve developed.
About Studio Classes
Studio Classes enable you to expand your art-making skills through guided, step-by-step instruction with expert teaching artists. Over multiple weeks, you will learn alongside other creative adults and delve deeply into the artistic process, explore new techniques, and build your practice.
This Studio Class is at an intermediate level. The curriculum and instruction are intended for adults with some prior experience.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world class art on view in the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, hours of expert instruction, and additional access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
About Your Instructor
Jaffia Royes is a visual artist and art educator who lived and worked in New York City for seventeen years. As an educator, she has worked with various art organizations, museums, and schools and has taught artists of all ages, including portfolio development for those entering art and design colleges and universities. While Jaffia’s primary medium for over two decades has been oil painting, she began developing a body of work in clay a few years ago as a creative way to house her ever-growing plant collection. Her passions for art and plant life allow space for her to practice mindfulness, serenity, and self-care, which she brings into the classroom and hopes to encourage through her teaching.
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