Life Painting Workshop (4 days), Shuster Studio

Sat. Mar 29, 2008 at 10:00am

LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP
for adults & teens - March 29, 30 and April 5, 6, 2008 in Germantown, NY

A contemplative practice to deepen seeing

Students are invited to deepen their seeing, learning how to continually draw more out of that which seems familiar, experiencing the richness of the world observed closely and felt intimately.  The excitement in the process lies not only in discovering what lies before our eyes and revealing and expressing this through paintings, but also recognizing the relevance of the process to all forms of study and exploration, and its potential for shedding light on life, humanity, nature.

This workshop for adults & teens explores our visual world, the meaning residing within the visual, and the artistic expression that emerges through this seeing. Working from the figure within still-life environment, the study focuses on color, pattern, form, shape, value, surface preparation, composition and space, as well as the technical considerations of the media used. Artists’ work throughout history is studied to understand the relationships between these and the study process and the work made in class. The intent is to develop and nurture each student’s unique potential. Students of all levels are welcome. Study is progressive, building on previous work in the studio.

instructor
Wendy Shuster is an exhibiting painter with 17 years teaching experience. Her work can be found in collections in the US , Mexico and Europe . She founded and then has directed a teaching studio in the Hudson Valley for over 14 years, and recently expanded its reach to NYC . While she earned a degree from Bucknell University , the most compelling and inspirational study she experienced was during four years of private advanced work with Nicholas Buhalis in his Woodstock and NYC studio schools and galleries. She continues to harvest rich material from a year’s sabbatical painting in Paris followed by travel, including a return visit to Mexico, and a recent journey to Argentina.  She is deeply immersed in and excited about recent work with and from the movement explorations of modern dancers.

March 29, 30 and April 5, 6
Saturday & Sunday of two weekends
10am - 5:30pm with break for lunch
(eight 3-hour sessions/four full days in total)
Germantown, NY

SHUSTER STUDIO
POB 1202
Hudson, NY 12534
shusterstudio@yahoo.com

Please enroll early.  In special circumstances, a student 14 or 15 years old with a serious interest in art may enroll - please inquire.  Barter arrangements may be possible. 
Enrollment is confirmed with receipt of tuition. 



from THE ART OF SEEING by J. Krishnamurti:

“We were saying the other day how very important it is to observe. It is quite an art to which one must give a great deal of attention. We only see very partially, we never see anything completely, with the totality of our mind, or with the fullness of our heart. And unless we learn this extraordinary art, it seems to me that we shall be functioning, living, through a very small part of our mind, through a small segment of the brain. We never see anything completely, for various reasons, because we are so concerned with our own problems, or we are so conditioned, so heavily burdened with belief, with tradition, with the past, that this actually prevents us from seeing or listening. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree…..”

Madras
January 3 1968

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