Workshop Purpose
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The goal of this workshop is to teach you both the strategic thinking and techniques that great master artists have utilized for centuries. You'll learn exactly what it takes to paint life-like illusionistic portraits and how to incorporate these methods into your own personal approach and style.
Award winning classical realist oil portrait artist, Marvin Mattelson will be conducting this workshop for artists who long to elevate their painting skills. He provides an opportunity for artists of all levels and styles to benefit from his thirty plus years of experience, both as a professional artist and as an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
He believes that the way painting is taught today limits all but the most precociously talented and clever from succeeding. If they paint well it's in spite of their methods, not because of them. Unfortunately, many artists with great potential are thwarted because they are not provided with the proper understanding and training.
Marvin has therefore created a refreshingly logical and clear strategy for all artists who want to improve the quality of their work.
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Workshop Specifics
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Marvin's approach to portraiture is based on the idea that creating an illusionistically real painting requires far more than merely copying what lies before you. It requires the ability to understand and then purposefully modify what you see.
While working from live models Marvin will show you how to enhance the illusion of three dimensional reality on a two dimensional surface.
Sound strategies for getting a good likeness, modeling and turning the form, as well as finding an efficient and repeatable way to mix the subtle nuanced colors of life will be addressed in great depth.
The juxtaposition of objective observation and subjective interpretation are the keys to mastering a truly classical realist approach to painting.
Marvin feels the most effective way of teaching is by demonstrating and explaining each and every step of his methodology. He will spend approximately one half of the workshop sessions demonstrating the following:
• Transparent under painting technique.
• How to achieve accurate drawing and values.
• Preparation and use of the Mattelson Flesh Palette.
• Scumbling and wet-into-wet paint handling.
Marvin will work one on one with each of his students during the class sessions when he's not demonstrating.
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Daily Class Schedule
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9:00 am -1:00 p.m....morning painting session/demo
1:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m....lunch
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.....afternoon painting session/demo
There are no class scheduled for August 12.
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Special Field Trip * Saturday August 11
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During the workshop Marvin will take his students to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art where they will have the unique opportunity to closely examine some of the greatest paintings ever created. Marvin will analyze and meticulously break down these masterpieces while elaborating on how they inspired him to formulate his unique approach.
This tour will include paintings by Rembrandt, Ingres, Raeburn, Bouguereau, Lawrence, and Paxton. Studying these works, in conjunction with this workshop, will forever alter the way you look and think about painting.
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Workshop Fees & Registration
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Tuition $1800.00
Registration for the SVA summer program officially begins Monday April 11, but you can register online now. After the 11th you can contact the Deprtment of Continuing Education at ce@sva.edu or 212-592-2050.
For more information please contact Marvin Mattelson
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