How does an artist transform an initial idea into a successful finished painting? In this eight-week oil painting course, you'll explore each stage of the creative process, from the first spark of inspiration through planning, color studies, and the final painting. Working through composition sketches, value studies, color exploration, and small painted studies, you'll learn to make stronger decisions before committing to a larger work. Along the way, you'll develop a deeper understanding of composition, value, color relationships, and painting techniques while staying true to your original vision. Through demonstrations, discussion, and individual guidance, Cynthia will share her approach to developing paintings thoughtfully and intentionally from beginning to end. Designed for beginning and intermediate oil painters, as well as returning students, this course will help you strengthen your creative process, paint with greater confidence, and produce more intentional, successful work.
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Cynthia Inson: The best thing about being an artist is the journey of learning, analysis, decision making and discovery that I so enjoy as I create. All these things truly fuel and run my engine. Painting is much like writing to me. Instead of words I am using paint, color, brushstroke, lines, form to develop the story and create an impression of mood, light, distance, and three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface and space. My goal, as an artist, is to captivate the viewer, to convince them to feel that sense of awe and joy that I felt seeing the sky that I painted or the mountains, roses, water, whatever. The goal is to stop them in their tracks and for them to respond and enjoy the impression the painting evokes. The added challenge, for me as an artist, is also to create paintings that continue to draw the viewer in, to visually wander, to see parts or the whole of the painting differently over time. This worthy challenge also continues to fuel my growth as an art. Education: Undergraduate in Art History and Studio Arts, Masters in Anthropology and Archeology. Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. I'm thrilled to be part of the Faculty for the New Mexico Art League. Honored to be represented by the Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
