Take a Closer Look Around

Boy on a Wharf, o/c, 20" x 16", Steven Rhude


Take a Closer Look Around:
Local-Figure & Interior Painting Class with Steven Rhude
begins March 23 Acadia University Art Gallery http://gallery.acadiau.ca/Acadia_Art_Gallery/Outreach.html

This indoor workshop approaches the figure in its environment through photographic sources, memory, and process observation. The first class will be devoted to a field trip around Wolfville to attain source material for the following seven weeks. Our purpose is to develop the ability to see, perceive, inscribe, and translate experience as it relates to the subject of the figure in situ.

Various systems of representation will be studied over eight sessions. Oil painting techniques will also be explored such as under painting, glazing, alla prima (direct painting), to expand the students understanding of the expressive potential of oil paint.

Date and Time: Mondays, 7-9pm, March 23, 2015 – May 11, 2015 (8 weeks)
Cost: $180 (non-members)/ $170 (gallery members).
Materials: not included, participants will be provided with materials list for workshop.
Open to all skill levels.
Register: In person at the gallery, or download a workshop form off our website.

About the instructor: Steven Rhude graduate with honours in drawing and painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design. He also studied drawing in Florence Italy with support from an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation award. He later moved to Nova Scotia and devoted himself full-time to painting. In his work, Rhude continues to explore his passion for themes, which evoke the ethos of coastal communities in Atlantic Canada, their social conditions and iconic character. His work is held in private and public collections across Canada and beyond.

Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS

Comments

  1. Laura Kenney Rugs13 February 2015 at 09:57

    Well..I would love to take this....going to see if I can work it out. :)

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  2. Steven Rhude13 February 2015 at 12:17

    Yes do, you will like it. Let me know if you can, I'll send a supplies list.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Laura Kenney Rugs13 February 2015 at 14:06

    Ok..I will talk with the boss.

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