CLARTSA036 - Small Works: From Drawing to Painting
Small is beautiful in this dynamic studio art course that invites you to create a series of compact drawings and paintings on paper. Limiting the size of your work proves surprisingly liberating, allowing you to immerse yourself in the subtleties of your subject, whether you prefer landscapes, still lifes, portraits or more. You’ll begin with a value drawing and then complete a companion painting in full color with gouache or acrylic paint. Make one drawing and one painting in class each week, for a total of a dozen artworks. See how fluid and freeing it can be to work small. This course is open to students at all levels from beginners to advanced artists.
You may also be interested in Laura Spector's other course, Maximalist Painting: Composition and Creation, March 21 through May 9, 2024, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Course Details
Laura Spector is a Houston-based artist and art instructor. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at The Jung Center in Houston. She is best known for her acclaimed Museum Anatomy project, which began in 1996, where she collaborated with museum curators in 16 countries, searching for hidden, stolen, lost and destroyed paintings, which she reimagined in paint, photography and sculpture. Among Spector’s honors are a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, an individual grant from Houston Arts Alliance, the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and an artist-in-residence at Atelierhaus Hilmsen, Germany. Ms. Spector was recently an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Online--Synchronous
This course will be delivered in a synchronous format online. Participants will receive login instructions to the course page which will provide access to the virtual classroom link and other resources. All online classes are held at Central Standard Time.
Supply lists for studio art are shared two weeks before the course start date. Contact cpcoord@rice.edu with questions. Fee does not include cost of supplies, approximately $50. This course is open to students at all levels from beginners to advanced artists.