This is a three-day intensive workshop which will provide you with the tools, visual vocabulary, and inspiration to further your personal vision and voice in your own studio practice. This course is designed to benefit artists who work figuratively and abstractly. Some drawing/painting experience is preferable.
In the three days we spend together, we will cover the following topics:
• Line / varieties of line, line and shape, line and direction, density, value, etc.
• Shape / varieties of shape, shape and value, shape and color, etc.
• Exploration of Color / perception of color & the role of hue, value, & saturation
• Understanding Abstraction / freedom of representational qualities
• Design + Composition / balance, emphasis, simplicity, hierarchy, unity
Date(s) of workshop: 10/9 - 10/11, 2020
Times: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (lunch from 12:30-1:30)
Cost: $539
Supply list provided upon signup.
Visit Mark’s website: www.markeanes.com
**Note: This workshop is non-refundable. If you cannot attend for any reason your only option is to find another artist to purchase your spot from you.
Artist Biography
Mark Eanes is a painter, printmaker, photographer, curator, and educator who has spent the last 20 years living and working in Benicia, California. Mark is currently an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA), where he has taught for over twenty five years.
Eanes has shown his paintings throughout California as well as nationally and internationally. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Parsons School of Design in Paris, the Patricia Sweetow and Michael Dunev Galleries in San Francisco, Fairfield Center for the Arts, Dominican College in San Rafael, the Mill Valley Arts Commission Gallery, and the Hanford Center for the arts.
Eanes’s works have been included in selected exhibitions at the Applied Arts Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA., San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art’s artist gallery, the Etra Gallery in Miami, the Ruth Bacofner Gallery in Los Angeles, the Cumberland gallery in Nashville TN, and the San Paulo Biennale, among many others.
Eanes’s work is in numerous private and corporate collections, nationally and internationally.