THE ACT OF PAINTING
WITH JENNIFER POCHINSKI
MAY 4-8, 2019
Saturday-Wednesday
The act of painting is not about executing something well. It’s what happened instead.
The week will be about setting up exercises that will encourage something unexpected to happen.
During the five days of the workshop we will work on an enormous still life, then work from a model and finally end with a day of self portraits from life or photos. We will also devote one day to working from photos.
The goals: to learn to trust first instincts, to hone skills by painting what is directly observed — but without overthinking or second-guessing, rendering or decorating. It will be a week of unfiltered mark making; maybe some stretching into new territory which each painter can carry into her own practice.
MAY 4-8, 2019
Saturday-Wednesday
The act of painting is not about executing something well. It’s what happened instead.
The week will be about setting up exercises that will encourage something unexpected to happen.
During the five days of the workshop we will work on an enormous still life, then work from a model and finally end with a day of self portraits from life or photos. We will also devote one day to working from photos.
The goals: to learn to trust first instincts, to hone skills by painting what is directly observed — but without overthinking or second-guessing, rendering or decorating. It will be a week of unfiltered mark making; maybe some stretching into new territory which each painter can carry into her own practice.