FAMILY : VALUES
ONLINE WORKSHOP
September - November 2026
Photos of family (however you define it) — whether ancestors you can know only through photos, images from childhood, etc. — will be the sources for this workshop. Rather than copying photos, the goal will be to transform the images. Analyzing the photos in terms of linear relationships, shape, and value structure, and as designs in a rectangle, we will build drawings and paintings that stand on their own. Breaking down the pictorial elements through simplification and abstraction, we will ask: How much is enough? How much can be left out? Mediums will include graphite, acrylic and/or oil paint, and collage. Work will be done between meetings and posted on the Padlet for discussion. Meetings will be held on Zoom.
HEAD STARTS
ONLINE WORKSHOP
April - May 2026
Portraits from art history will be the point of departure for the study of pictorial structure, with a focus on the head. We will touch upon the universal proportions of the head; a simple, intuitive drawing method will be introduced to help with drawing accuracy. Mediums may include graphite, collage, gouache, acrylic and/or oil. Each participant will choose and examine one or two images from art history and generate permutations through exercises that lead to simplification and abstraction. This rigorous and wide-ranging analysis of images from our painting ancestors will feed our own work and imaginations as we engage with images that speak to us still. We will meet on Zoom and share work on the Padlet platform.
ONLINE WORKSHOP
September - November 2026
Photos of family (however you define it) — whether ancestors you can know only through photos, images from childhood, etc. — will be the sources for this workshop. Rather than copying photos, the goal will be to transform the images. Analyzing the photos in terms of linear relationships, shape, and value structure, and as designs in a rectangle, we will build drawings and paintings that stand on their own. Breaking down the pictorial elements through simplification and abstraction, we will ask: How much is enough? How much can be left out? Mediums will include graphite, acrylic and/or oil paint, and collage. Work will be done between meetings and posted on the Padlet for discussion. Meetings will be held on Zoom.
HEAD STARTS
ONLINE WORKSHOP
April - May 2026
Portraits from art history will be the point of departure for the study of pictorial structure, with a focus on the head. We will touch upon the universal proportions of the head; a simple, intuitive drawing method will be introduced to help with drawing accuracy. Mediums may include graphite, collage, gouache, acrylic and/or oil. Each participant will choose and examine one or two images from art history and generate permutations through exercises that lead to simplification and abstraction. This rigorous and wide-ranging analysis of images from our painting ancestors will feed our own work and imaginations as we engage with images that speak to us still. We will meet on Zoom and share work on the Padlet platform.
