Play with Light (Online Workshop) Summer 2024 w/ Marina Levitan

July 12 to July 26 (Fridays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 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.

DEMO: https://youtu.be/F9z7_xIiCGs

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Workshop Description

This workshop will focus on teaching artists how to effectively use light to enhance the visual impact of their artworks. We will talk a lot about composition and how the different lighting conditions affect it, also will discuss the influence of lightening conditions on our perception of color. We will focus on developing our senses to feel and understand what our current arrangement of spots needs to become a good composition.

By the end of this light compositional workshop, participants should have a solid foundation in using light to empower their artistic expression, whether through realistic representation or more abstract and stylized approaches.

Workshop Outline

Week 1 -

Presentation - reviewing still life art works of different artists who is known for their experiments with light in their work.

Retrospective from old masters to present days.

Demonstration – experimenting with still life to learn how different shapes, colors, textures, and light reflection levels influence the perception of the moment.

Setting up first composition - each student will choose few objects to experiment with during the workshop.

Small quick drawings or collages - we will draw our composition in charcoal / pencil / or by making a collage, on the way we will see how small changes in arrangement can affect light and color perception and change the whole main essence of composition.

Week 2 -

Small quick paintings – continuing to experiment with objects composition emphasizing the chromatic aspects, while making paintings in color. We will create 1 still life during the workshop and the second one will be a home assignment, using dynamic composition concept which we will learn in that class.

Week 3 -

Big long term painting – for this class we will start to make a big painting from the students chosen composition, while moving around the objects and finding the perfect arrangement for light and color expression.

Workshop summary and last critiques.

Workshop Materials List

Collage Materials List:

Papers, Scissors, White glue

Drawing Materials List:

Choose how you want to work:

Charcoal drawing:

- Strathmore charcoal paper - 500series

- Natural willow charcoal - a few sizes from thin to thick.

- Chamois cloth

- Regular hard eraser

- Soft eraser

- Long ruler

- Stanley knife

- 2 large metal clips

- Wooden board for support

- Easel

- Fixative (spray)

- Drawing sketchbook / Drawing paper

Painting Materials List:

You can choose if you want to work in Oil colors or acrylic.

Oil paint:

(Good brand-Winsor Newton Artist, Old Holland, Williamsburg, any other artist grade

paint)

Colors:

Cadmium Yellow

Cadmium Red

Ultramarine Blue

Burnt Sienna

Raw Umber

White (Titanium/ Zinc/ Cremnitz)

Optional –

Lemon Yellow

Cadmium Orange

Alizarin Crimson

Cadmium Green Light

Emerald Green

Viridian / Permanent Green

Cobalt Blue

Equipment:

Good brushes - bristle, filbert (brush shape) A few sizes from half inch to 1.5 inch

Large palette

Palette knives

Good canvas

Odorless terpenoid

Rags for cleanup

Optional:

Linseed oil

Liquin

Acrylic paint:

Choose a good company and make sure you have at least these colors:

Black

white

yellow

red

blue

Acrylic brushes

Acrylic paper