As my mentor, Richard Schmid, used to tell me, it doesn’t matter so much how you start a painting, it matters how you finish..
The finishing strokes are the ones that really matter!
Often we begin a painting with excitement and energy and end up stuck at a stage that might feel too tight, or a little muddy, flat or things just don’t quite look accurate. There are so many methods to starting a painting, block-in, sketching it out with lines, color masses, direct method, layering… the list goes on and on.. and while a solid start to a painting can help keep the process fresh and efficient, what really matters is what you do at the end. The MAGIC that completes it all.
I have spent over 20 years teaching overall methods of painting.. The general methods of beginning and getting through the difficult middle, but I really have not had a class that focuses on the finishing strokes… So here it is!
In this workshop, we will focus entirely on what it takes to bring a painting from the good painting to the GREAT painting! Bringing 90% up to 100%.
I believe the finishing stage really is its own artform. We usually spend the most time on the start and mucky middle but the thing is, you get good at what you practice... So if you only practice starting a painting, and abandoning it midway through, then you will only get good at starting. In order to get good at finishing paintings we must practice finishing paintings.
In this workshop, students will arrive with their own paintings, already worked on as far as they can take it… And in the class we will spend the 3 days breaking through to the next level.
I believe every painting is only a few strokes away from a masterpiece… Only a few strokes away from magic.
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