Painting the Light, Painting the Silence (Online Course) Spring 2025 w/ Mathieu Weemaels
March 17 to April 7 (Mondays), 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/tm1dn4QsI70
Course Description
This course is more for trying to find meaning in the fact of painting than the teaching of a technique even if the technique is always there. It’s about using mundane objects to express abstract things and feelings.
We will start with charcoal drawing on paper to work on the composition without being disturbed by other elements like color and representation. Each person will make several propositions from the same subject and then choose the one they’ll continue all along the 4 weeks.
Each lesson we’ll do 2 things : Exercices on the subject of the day: composition, light. And continue the main work week after week.
Then from the second week, we’ll introduce color with painting or with pastel and explore the other aspects as light, silence, importance of calm zones..
We’ll keep on using a simple tool like charcoal for the different exercices especially for the work on light, but for the main project, we’ll work with a more rich and complex medium like oil or pastel.
Course Outline
Week 1: How and why paint a still life in the 21th century?
The importance of abstraction in contemporary figuration.
Abstract and figurative hand in hand.
The construction lines in a painting.
Week 2: At the start, the idea: What’s really important in the painting we’re painting.
Thinking at the meaning as the architect of the construction.
Week 3: After the initial construction: The forms before the subject, the light before objects.
The importance of the light.
How to paint the light.
Representing without representing.
Week 4 : What’s happening during the process: What can we learn from the painting we’re painting?
Install the silence.
Course Materials List
This is less a technical class and more of a analytical class. Materials are not very important.
For exercises paper is more useful than another surface. You could use oil, acrylic, gouache or watercolor etc. Pastel or other dry media doesn’t need drying time so it’s more comfortable. As there is a week between the classes, media with longer drying time can be used too. I suggest to use the technique you prefer.
One paper or canvas of good dimension (40X50 or 50X60 or bigger if they want) and other papers to make some exercices appart from the main project.
For Oil -
Paper for oil painting size around 40X50cm
Brushes
Colors: white, brown, ochre, blue, red, etc…..
For pastel -
Paper around 40X50cm adapted for this technique but without "big holes in it”. A simple paper is ok, the only point is: it must not be too flat because the pastel must scratch to hold on it.
Fixative.
For Acrylic -
Same as oil but for watercolors.
March 17 to April 7 (Mondays), 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/tm1dn4QsI70
Course Description
This course is more for trying to find meaning in the fact of painting than the teaching of a technique even if the technique is always there. It’s about using mundane objects to express abstract things and feelings.
We will start with charcoal drawing on paper to work on the composition without being disturbed by other elements like color and representation. Each person will make several propositions from the same subject and then choose the one they’ll continue all along the 4 weeks.
Each lesson we’ll do 2 things : Exercices on the subject of the day: composition, light. And continue the main work week after week.
Then from the second week, we’ll introduce color with painting or with pastel and explore the other aspects as light, silence, importance of calm zones..
We’ll keep on using a simple tool like charcoal for the different exercices especially for the work on light, but for the main project, we’ll work with a more rich and complex medium like oil or pastel.
Course Outline
Week 1: How and why paint a still life in the 21th century?
The importance of abstraction in contemporary figuration.
Abstract and figurative hand in hand.
The construction lines in a painting.
Week 2: At the start, the idea: What’s really important in the painting we’re painting.
Thinking at the meaning as the architect of the construction.
Week 3: After the initial construction: The forms before the subject, the light before objects.
The importance of the light.
How to paint the light.
Representing without representing.
Week 4 : What’s happening during the process: What can we learn from the painting we’re painting?
Install the silence.
Course Materials List
This is less a technical class and more of a analytical class. Materials are not very important.
For exercises paper is more useful than another surface. You could use oil, acrylic, gouache or watercolor etc. Pastel or other dry media doesn’t need drying time so it’s more comfortable. As there is a week between the classes, media with longer drying time can be used too. I suggest to use the technique you prefer.
One paper or canvas of good dimension (40X50 or 50X60 or bigger if they want) and other papers to make some exercices appart from the main project.
For Oil -
Paper for oil painting size around 40X50cm
Brushes
Colors: white, brown, ochre, blue, red, etc…..
For pastel -
Paper around 40X50cm adapted for this technique but without "big holes in it”. A simple paper is ok, the only point is: it must not be too flat because the pastel must scratch to hold on it.
Fixative.
For Acrylic -
Same as oil but for watercolors.
March 17 to April 7 (Mondays), 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/tm1dn4QsI70
Course Description
This course is more for trying to find meaning in the fact of painting than the teaching of a technique even if the technique is always there. It’s about using mundane objects to express abstract things and feelings.
We will start with charcoal drawing on paper to work on the composition without being disturbed by other elements like color and representation. Each person will make several propositions from the same subject and then choose the one they’ll continue all along the 4 weeks.
Each lesson we’ll do 2 things : Exercices on the subject of the day: composition, light. And continue the main work week after week.
Then from the second week, we’ll introduce color with painting or with pastel and explore the other aspects as light, silence, importance of calm zones..
We’ll keep on using a simple tool like charcoal for the different exercices especially for the work on light, but for the main project, we’ll work with a more rich and complex medium like oil or pastel.
Course Outline
Week 1: How and why paint a still life in the 21th century?
The importance of abstraction in contemporary figuration.
Abstract and figurative hand in hand.
The construction lines in a painting.
Week 2: At the start, the idea: What’s really important in the painting we’re painting.
Thinking at the meaning as the architect of the construction.
Week 3: After the initial construction: The forms before the subject, the light before objects.
The importance of the light.
How to paint the light.
Representing without representing.
Week 4 : What’s happening during the process: What can we learn from the painting we’re painting?
Install the silence.
Course Materials List
This is less a technical class and more of a analytical class. Materials are not very important.
For exercises paper is more useful than another surface. You could use oil, acrylic, gouache or watercolor etc. Pastel or other dry media doesn’t need drying time so it’s more comfortable. As there is a week between the classes, media with longer drying time can be used too. I suggest to use the technique you prefer.
One paper or canvas of good dimension (40X50 or 50X60 or bigger if they want) and other papers to make some exercices appart from the main project.
For Oil -
Paper for oil painting size around 40X50cm
Brushes
Colors: white, brown, ochre, blue, red, etc…..
For pastel -
Paper around 40X50cm adapted for this technique but without "big holes in it”. A simple paper is ok, the only point is: it must not be too flat because the pastel must scratch to hold on it.
Fixative.
For Acrylic -
Same as oil but for watercolors.