Contemporary Painting Through Traditional Approaches - Session B

Contemporary Painting Through Traditional Approaches - Session B

Adult Course | This program is completed

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States

108

Intermediate, Advanced, Professional

3/8/2024-4/26/2024

9:00 AM-12:00 PM MDT on Fri

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$444.00

$377.40

In this course we will explore the tradition of oil painting and charcoal drawing to create contemporary artworks. We will begin by engaging in some core exercises in both oil and charcoal, followed buy creating works looking on pre impressionist approaches. We will complete the class creating individual works based on each artists chosen imagery and approaches.

  • The course will begin with one day each in drawing approaches and oil painting approaches. We will then move on to three class days of painting based on masterwork and classical imagery. In this section, we will be producing several studies per day. The final three weeks will be dedicated to students producing work based on the learned approaches but focused on the subject matter of each artists choice.

    Students should have basic drawing skills and some painting skills.
  • Sketchbook
    Charcoal
    Eraser
    Rags
    Oil paint (colors to be discussed)
    Brushes
    Linseed oil
    Galkyd (no traditional turp)
    Additional materials will be discussed

Born in Denver in 1972, Michael Dowling spent much of his early life as a typical kid apart from being an obsessive drawer. It wasn’t until the age of 25, and after several years studying various subjects as well as working in many fields, that Michael started painting. With that late beginning, Dowling dove full in and began studying extensively. At 28, he decided to sell a burgeoning art sales company and moved to Florence, Italy to focus on painting. He has since returned to his native Denver where he lives and works. Michael is represented in Colorado by Leongallery Colorado you G44 Chicago by Studio 6F Miami by G Rossi Fine Art Little Rock by M2 Gallery His work has been featured in the films “the Frame” and “Ink”, and will be the focus artist on the upcoming showtime release “Devils”. Michael has worked with and shown at the Museum of Contemporary art Denver and Denver Art Museum, and has work in several private and public collections both nationally and throughout Europe. Michael Dowling's work has been characterized as a combination of traditional practices in realism and his explorations of mark, pattern, and color to disrupt that reality. In many compositions, figures presented as portrait, morph into their surreal self, and lone objects tell stories through their subtle positioning. These objects and characters sit in bizarre spaces with intentionally disrupted atmospheres in order to find further meaning within the imagery. “I intend to use the traditions of painting and drawing in a very cotemporary voice; I make my work with a great respect for those traditions along with a fun contempt for our current situations. In my work I always explore our history as a people and how we are today because of it. I am always interested in the stories that repeat throughout cultures, especially those of a religious nature. I like to play with the elements of those stories, the symbols they use often are incorporated and intentionally m