2011 Workshop Schedule
Weekends (Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 10-1 ) In addition to the hours of direct instruction, participants may make use of the facilities and continue their work until 8 pm each evening. $200 per student, limited to eight students.
Weekly Workshops (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10-2) In addition to the hours of direct instruction, participants may make use of the facilities to continue their work until 6 pm each evening. $250 per student, limited to eight students.
Workshop Methods are informed by the traditions of teaching established on the Outer Cape (i.e. Charles Hawthorne and Hans Hoffman, as well as others), and by basic methods enjoyed by students enrolled in degree programs within the fine arts. The instruction will focus on observation and process-building skills that will inform a wide range of interests, and instruction for students with advanced concerns will be accommodated. Students may choose to concentrate in a media of choice- watercolor, tempera, oil, or acrylic, or may choose to work in traditional and/or mixed-media drawing.
A special emphasis will be the creation of individual plans of study that serve beyond the workshop environment, identifying the strenghths, interests, and motivations of students pursuing enrichment and professional development within the fine arts.
The Studio Facility offers over 600 square feet of open working space, with 19 foot ceilings, and is situated in a rural environment. A short distance to the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod Bay, and the village of Wellfleet, the setting provides an unlimited array of working sites and subjects.
Individual Instruction and accomodations for small groups available.
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For more information and registration,
please contact :
Douglas Ritter 508.349.0976
dpritter@earthlink.net
Options for housing in the area, and assistance in accommodations for off-cape participants is available.
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SUMMER 2011 CLASSES IN PROVINCETOWN:
For more information and registration, please contact:
Grace Ryder O'Malley at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum:
508.487.1750
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Working in a Series: Designing your Practice with Doug Ritter
July 5-7, 1:30-4:30pm, $250
Open to two-dimensional forms and practices, our discussions serve to model potentialities, and identify one's strengths and proclivities. Participants may develop existing work, generate new work specific to this opportunity, or use work from the museum as a starting point. Intermediate to advanced two-dimensional artists are welcome, and may work in drawing, painting, or mixed media.
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Capturing the Impression: An Experiential and Logical Approach to Observational Painting
July 26-29, 1:30-4:30pm, $250
"We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of us seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind." – Camille Pissaro
Pissaro says a wonderful thing in his statement - that it is the observer who is the subject of the impression - and it is exciting how that statement serves to amplify our common way of seeing. This course is concerned with observation, focusing primarily on color as a potent descriptive element in relating the visual field. While there is some presentation of schematic and theoretical approaches to color, our concern is direct observation, palette organization, and indexing the painting’s surface, working systematically to convey the colors that one observes.
Open to all levels, this class offers a working approach to painting that connects artists directly to their impressions from the visual field. Classes meet at PAAM and in the immediate environment - out of doors as weather permits - and have the opportunity to closely examine impressionist paintings from PAAM's permanent collection as models for our own works.
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Join Us in South Wellfleet at the Pond Hill School for a Special Opportunity
in Arts Instruction
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workshop
July 4-8, 2011
The NY Times best selling book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" - by Betty Edwards was first published in 1979, with more than 2.5 million copies sold. Brian Bomeisler, Betty's son, has been teaching workshops for 20 years and has successfully taught thousands to master the art of drawing using Betty's approach.
While the focus of the workshops is on drawing, absolutely no previous art training or special talent for drawing is necessary.
Learning to draw means learning to see things differently - to see in ways not frequently used in ordinary life. Once learned, drawing can be used to record what you see either in reality or in your mind's eye, in a manner not totally unlike the way we can record our thoughts and ideas in words. Many 20th century abstract painters who appear to draw and paint in a completely random fashion, had to learn to draw realistically before they were able to make the shift into abstract painting. Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Matisse, Mondrian and Jackson Pollock are a few examples of great abstract painters who first learnt to draw realistically.
Whether you feel you have little talent and doubt you could ever learn; or you enjoy drawing but have not been able to progress beyond a child-like level, these workshops will show you how to gain and master drawing skills. If you are already drawing as a professional artist they give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception. Instruction is specific in teaching the 5 skills needed to draw any perceived object, place or person.
Register at www.drawright.com
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July4-8, 2011
Pond Hill School,
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
drawing portfolio
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