Hi folks, Here is an updated schedule for workshops and weekly classes. Our newly expanded and more robust class offerings and events at our fantastic new location will be posted soon. We are continuing to offer the highest quality and most innovative educational services available at an extremely reasonable cost. We are serving artists that wish to add a richer learning experience and superior content to their creative pursuits. Our ongoing Tuesday evening, Wednesday and Thursday morning, afternoon & evening classes are now being held at our new location: The John Kilroy Fine Art Academy at the John Kilroy Studio The E. T. Wright Building 31 Liberty Sq. 379 Liberty Street Suite 218 Rockland, MA 02370 781-925-0582 Directions: From Route 128, 495 or 93 to Route 3 South. Take Route 3 South to Exit 13, Route 123 West (Rockland) to Webster St. At the intersection of Webster and Liberty Streets, you will see the Wright Building. Parking is in the rear of the building. Entry through the double doors. Studio is located on the second floor. Room 218. Please see schedule below. Our class curriculum will continue to offer the interested learner an honest set of skills in a system which empowers while adding continuous growth potential for both the beginner as well as the serious professional artist.

Weekly Classes

The John Kilroy Fine Art Academy at John Kilroy Studio
E.T.Wright Building , Rockland, MA

Our new facilities now offer long form learning where problem solving and projects can extend indefinitely. This allows us to surpass any existing adult level art education offered anywhere and rivaling any university level system of art education.

Picture Design, Concept and Analysis
Bimonthly class
Tuesday Evening 6:30-9:30pm

April 22, May 6, May 20, June 3, 2008
100.00

How to create conscious and purposeful compositions that communicate in any media.

Picture making is a lost art and its’ value is scarcely understood today. This class is designed to give the artist greater content and personal meaning to their work. It is about communication beyond just the image content and media format. I will give a method to arrive at concrete discernment, clear perceptions and critical thinking which hopefully leads the artist to make informed decisions about their approach to understanding and making World Class Art.
This session is mostly a demo, lecture and open forum format combined with independent study and intensive group dialoging about our results. Starting with basics up through extremely advanced pictorial design, we explore multiple strategies clearly communicating ideas of any defined content.
Step one is analyzing pictures, deconstructing them, and familiarizing ourselves with the ideas, intentions and functions of each design and composition. Transcending the essential sketch, we’ll explore high level planning and improvisational approaches. This includes traditional, narrative and abstract solutions to all subjects and genres.

Examples of the topics covered will be:
How we see and its implications
Picture development: The Main Idea/The Pattern/Dominant Shape/Focal Points
Fundamental design issues: line, shape, color, values, order, dynamics, rhythm, balance, unity, silhouettes, counterchange, linkage, vignettes, eye movement and control, hierarchical areas and patterns, decorative patterning, readability, underlying structures, tonal plans, linear description
The essential and the significant
Planning and improvisation
Conscious intent and intuition
The picture border and beyond
Thinking graphically: Thumbnails, Comps, Layouts, Master Drawings, Block-Ins and Finishing
Diagnosing problems

Students will be making a notebook of design principles, procedures and class notes. This is years of complied information not readily available anywhere.
Teacher not responsible for student missed class! Each week builds on the previous.

Ability level: all levels
Taken in conjunction with The Direct Painting Experience, this course will cover the finer points and subtlety in art which can only be addressed when superimposed over previously developed and executed paintings.  The Atelier addresses the need of the serious artist to create masterful works of art.  This applies to any level of experience from the complete beginner to the long-time professional seeking to improve their work.

Portrait and Figure Oil Painting and Drawing
Wednesday            6:30-9:30 pm

April 23 - June 11, 2008
8 weeks
235.00

Ability level: all levels
Learn to accurately render the human form. You will develop your technical skills for drawing and painting in oils by studying light, values, color and by gaining an understanding of edges and planes.  Alla Prima painting skills will be taught to encourage technical accuracy. Students may choose to work in pastel, oil, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, or other drawing and painting media.
 
Pastel/All Media Class  
Thursday      6:30-9:30 pm

April 24 - June 12, 2008
8 weeks
185.00
       
Ability level:  all levels
Pastel offers a unique bridge between drawing and painting. This class, suited for both beginner and advanced artists, covers techniques in both oil and chalk pastel, giving the student a solid introduction to pastel painting. An emphasis on accurate perception, the importance of understanding the qualities of light and utilization of color harmony will be covered which translates to any medium. This class will allow you to explore subjects while building skill and confidence in your handling of medium. This is slated to be pastel class but other media are welcome, (Oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor)

Materials Lists


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2008

Workshops

Many New and Exciting Workshops being scheduled, check back for updates.

Creative Art Center

Plein Air Painting in All Media

June 17 - 20 , 2008
Tuesday - Friday
9:00-4:00
$400.00

Experience painting "En Plein Aire" using the Alla Prima method in the beautiful landscape of Cape Cod.  This workshop is designed to give the artist greater content and personal meaning to their work. We will focus on the fundamentals of outdoor painting, traditional landscape composition and efficient painting procedures which allow the artist to capture light, color, shape, value, atmospheric perspective and textural control necessary to create well organized, "readable "plein air paintings.

Examine pictorial awareness and emphasis on value conservation, developing the necessary skills of controlled thinking problem solving, how and when to combine thinking with feeling and efficient, logical methods are also included. 
This workshop is valuable to any level of experience from the complete beginner to the longtime professional seeking to improve their work. Ultimately this is meant to be of use to the artist that needs to integrate "working from life" with going beyond the "quick sketch". One or several paintings will be attempted each day so skills will be honed and sheer excitement will be experienced. This workshop will inspire and empower you!

Any painting media welcome. 
Instructor demonstrations
Individual attention and critiques

Materials:
French easel or good pochade box, standard painting gear.
Brushes: #2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 Flats
Palette Knife 3"
Odorless Mineral Spirits (Gamsol)
Canvas board, Stretched canvas, Acrylic-gessoed board.
You will need at less 2 panels a day: 8 x 10, 9 x 12, 11 x 14, 12 x 16, 16 x 20 range
Sketchpad, pens, vine charcoal, pencils or whatever you wish to draw with
Paper Towels
Palette
Thinner Cup
Oil Paints: PALETTE
Titanium White (large tube)
Cadmium Yellow Lemon or Light or Pale
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
Transparent Oxide Red
Terra Rosa
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue or French Ultramarine
Cobalt Blue
Thalo Green or Viridian
Optional Colors
Raw Umber
Thalo Red Rose
Dioxazine Purple
Ivory Black
Remember you will be painting outdoors all day, additional materials:
folding chair, umbrella, insect repellent, trash bags,
Drinks, lunch, a snack.

The Creative Arts Center
154 Crowell Road
Chatham, Massachusetts 02633
508-945-3583

Falmouth Artists Guild



Figure in the Landscape

July 12 & 13, 2008
10:00am - 4:00 pm
Beginner to Advanced
$170.00 members $190.00 non-members

This is a unique workshop opportunity to focus closely on painting the figure, working with a live model in various situations. Procedural painting skills in the alla prima tradition will stress speed and accuracy with emphasis on mass, tonal values, relative texture and unity.

Outdoor figure painting in the landscape, figure work with costuming and drapery and also painting the portrait are included. This allows the students to explore different types of light and how it will affect shape, mass, values, colors, and edges under various conditions.

Areas that will be covered are: accurate drawing and drawing concepts, values, anatomy, understanding form, learning to work with the model in the most effective way, composition, design concepts, color harmony, flesh tones, light and its effects, light temperature and edges in your paintings.

Plenty of individual attention will be given to each student.
John Kilroy will give procedural lectures and he demonstrates daily.
Any painting media welcome. 

Falmouth Artists Guild
311R Main Street
Falmouth, MA 02540
508-540-3304

Go to the Public Demonstrations link to see the creative process in action.

Events
Open House

Cheers and happy creating!

Be Seeing Yu !

John Kilroy