2024
5 Day Workshop
February 5-9
10am-5 pm EST @ Townsend Atelier
Five whole days with the extraordinary Christina Weaver! This 5-Day course is designed to clarify and simplify the oil painting process. Each session will offer an isolated look at one of the following principles: shape, value, color, form, and surface. We will work directly from a still life of both manmade and natural objects, organizing observations into images that convey light and space. Compositional tools, value studies, and color theory exercises will facilitate these explorations. The “nuts and bolts” of painting will be covered – accurate drawing, color analysis, clean mixing – for those who are aiming to build skill and familiarity with the medium. For experienced painters who are looking to hone their practice, we will also address edge quality, paint application, and the elusive question of “finish”. Lectures and demonstrations will accompany independent work time, with one hour for lunch. For those coming from out of town, please contact us and we will be happy to help with accommodation recommendations.
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About the Instructor:
Christina Weaver (born 1987) grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington. Christina has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artists who work representationally and in 2015, she was a resident artist at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has taught in a variety of settings and is currently an instructor of drawing and painting at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. Her work is exhibited nationwide, collected worldwide, and has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Christina lives near Waynesville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
We are unable to issue refunds or exchanges for visiting artist workshops unless the workshop is canceled by Townsend Atelier.
