FLUID ACRYLIC WET-ON WET ON PAPER (CANVAS) WORKSHOP
with BIANKA GUNA www.biankaguna.com
e-mail bianka@biankaguna.com
cell: 416-520-4607
THREE DAYS ACRYLIC ABSTRACTION WORKSHOP
THURSDAY APRIL 29th – FRIDAY APRIL 30th - SATURDAY 1st OF MAY 2010
STUDIO SIX FRAMING AND ART SUPLIES
157 DENISON STREET, MARKHAM, ONTARIO, L3R 1B5
MOTTO
“I believe talent is not essential to be a good artist. Hard work is ” .
“Talent is the ability to spot what looks right or wrong in a painting ” .
(Johannes Vloothuis / Painter )
Expect to learn the use of colour, texture , movement and get inspired from what surrounds you daily: magazines (interior design ,architecture, fashion..), music , a great book, your cherished photo album from your trips abroad, your own sketch books and your “old” paintings.
MATERIALS USED
Cold Pressed Watercolour Paper 200 lb(Saunders Waterford )-12 Full Sheets
If you decide to paint on canvas , bring canvases no bigger than 24”x30” , stretched or un- stretched
1 Foam Board Support Full Sheet Size
1 Big roll of Masking Tape
Colour Mixing Containers deep enough and large enough for big size brushes, many enough (one for each colour)
Golden Acrylic Fluid Paints Recommended (you can bring other brands if you have them at home): Titanium White, Titanium Buff, Hansa Lemon Yellow,Transparent Pyrrole Orange, Napthtol Red Light and Medium ,Quinacridone Crimson, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Burnt Orange, Antraquinone Blue, Cobalt Teal , Jenkins Green ,Green Gold, Bone Black or Carbon Black( White and Black paints are a must!!)
Water Containers Big enough to hold big brushes
Brushes big flat 1 inch, 1 ½ inch, 2 inch, 3 inch, 6 inch the bigger the better
For texture painting plastic wrap, sponges, scrapers, palette knife (or an old discarded credit card will also work)
Paper towel (Bounty) to clean the edges of the painting
ABOUT ABSTRACT PAINTING
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes. Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas”(Arshile Gorky, Painter)
Abstract is an art–historical invention. Historically the word refers to the form only, not to colour, and not to texture. The term non-objective is sometimes offered as a superior term to abstract. Several directions (styles) or abstract art were created over the years Neoplasticism, Surrealism, Dada, Modernism, Minimalism, Postmodernism, etc.
Abstract painting uses the same rules of composition (variety of lines and shapes), division of space (radial, circular, fugal, pyramidal, meander, repetition), design (structure, forms, shape , movement, rhythm), colour harmony (hue, value, light intensity, contrast, energy ,tension, symbolism, dissonance) , texture (decorative, dynamic) as the representational painting.
“Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and it believes it can exist, in and for itself, without “things”… feeling, after all, is always and everywhere the one and only source of every creation” (Kasamir Malevich,Painter).
“For me there is no one “technique” that makes every painting work, no matter how technically proficient I might become. Making a painting work is always a negotiation with the painting itself. I always start with a plan, but, if I am not open to tweaking, altering or even abandoning the plan, it is more likely that I can lose the painting” (David Row, Painter).
Bibliography “Abstract Painting” by Vicky Perry
REGISTER EARLY TO AVOID DISSAPPOINTMENT !
Price: $175 per three days
Register to Bianka’s workshop and pay at Studio Six Framing and Art Supplies before April 10th 2010 :
157 Denison Street, Markham, Ontario, L3R 1B5
Phone: 905-475-1136
Fax:905-475-1271
Website: www.studio-six.com
