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| PAINTING WORKSHOPS BY LIZA VISAGIE |
| Liza Visagie offers both Studio Workshops and Plein-air (Outdoor) Workshops. All workshops are available to small groups.Intensive tutoring is also available to individuals. Please contact Liza for more information and rates |
| Plein-air Atelier - Outdoor Landscape Courses |
| Revisit the Classical landscape tradition of Open-air Painting |
| Painting directly from nature is a distinct artistic activity, with
special functions, problems and qualities. The Nature Sketch will be
an integral part and process directed towards an ultimate synthesis in
your studio work. Join us in learning sound traditional oil painting techniques on site. In practical and pictorial terms, oil paint is the most complex, versatile
and powerful. |
| Studio Painting Courses |
| Course Title: Working from Photographs in Oil |
| This course explores the many possibilities
in which the found photographic image can be translated into the painted
image. Utilizing the photo as a tool and source of reference, and not as a mere copying device, the student will broaden their painting skills. This course offers the student the opportunity to select their own subject matter while applying traditional oil painting techniques, with a focus on paint application, color mixing and measurements. Transform the flatness of the photographic image through the tangible and flexible nature of oil paint. |
| Course Title: Painting the still-life. |
| Still-life painting is an excellent tool for
learning how to reproduce the colors and values of nature. Learn the basic
tenants of composition through setting up a still-life. Focus on balance,
lighting techniques and finding the center of interest. Learn more about
your palette and mixing color, how to use warm and cool colors. Apply techniques
such as dead coloring, broken coloring and glazing techniques. “ Still-life paintings is simultaneously the most dependent and the most liberated of genres. On the one hand, it makes great technical demands on the painter in the imitation of surfaces, textures, and forms, while on the other, it is more nearly an independent creation than any other subject matter, since it is the artist who entirely controls four determinant factors: precise choice of subject, arrangement, angle of vision, and illumination.” George Mauner. Manet. Still- Life Paintings. |
| Course Title: Painting the Self Portrait |
| The varieties of color, in painting the portrait, presents greater opportunities for learning about tone. Instead of merely observing features and shapes of your familiar face, learn to see the visual appearance of tone. Learn to utilize the site-size method of transferring shapes and angles. Learn the different stages of painting the portrait: from a linear lay-in to a dead coloring stage, towards a more accurate tonal application. Through the study of shape, tone and color you will achieve an accurate depiction of the self. |
| © 2009 Liza Visagie All Rights Reserved |
| Liza Visagie is a landscape painter based in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Plein-air Atelier (Outdoor Landscape) painting courses and workshops are offered to groups as well as for individual instruction. Exploration of local scenic vistas in and around Vancouver from Pastoral to Urban. Visit Botanical gardens, marshlands, alley ways and forests. Also available: Studio Painting Courses. Working from Photographs in Oil. Painting the still-life. Painting the Self Portrait. |