Temenos, detail of 8 foot long (2.5 meters long) painting on canvas L Doctor
A few spaces are open!
The stone is contained, representing stillness and structure. The tree expands toward the sky, representing movement and expression. In developing one’s own voice in the creative pattern, there is a balance that needs to be maintained between form and expression. One must learn a form well enough to internalize it. This mastery of form leads to freedom of expression.
The eye is the third element, the observer, who notices and notates. In this class we will explore form, expression and observation in the continuum of drawing, painting and writing. Line is the unifying element.
Moonrise 3’ x 2’ (91.5 cm x 61 cm) L Doctor
What came first, drawing or painting?
How much closer do you get to a cloud by walking toward it?
How long does it take for the thing you are observing to become the thing itself, observing you?
My reference point, the masters, is to return to the cave paintings that are over 40,000 years old, and alive still, with immediacy and timelessness. These are the two qualities that Chagall identified as wanting to see in a painting: immediacy and timelessness.
In the cave paintings, there is no separation between drawing, painting and writing. Even the surface, the stone of the cave, is integrated with every line. The painting is the story. As Paul Klee said:
At the dawn of civilization, when writing and painting
were the same thing, (line) was the basic element.
From exercises in playing with line, we will learn to draw and paint. You don’t need to have any experience to learn to do this.
For information about registration contact:
Andy Schenk: andy@kalligraphie.com