ART BOX STUDIO WORKSHOPS
ABOUT THE ARTISTS

 

SCHINK
           LAWRENCE

 

 To help you find your direction, to develop a unique personal voice in painting, Skip Lawrence and Christopher Schink have designed a distinctly different workshop.  In this class, they address the questions:  what, why, and how?  What are you going to paint?  Why are you going to paint it?  And, finally, how are you going to paint it?

In the conventional watercolor workshop, these questions were never asked or the answers were presumed.  What are you going to paint?  The answer always included the typical watercolor fare---a barn with trees, boats in the harbor, or a still life with flowers---and the subject matter rarely changed.  The why was presumed: you painted them because that's what watercolorists did.  And the how was determined by the instructor whose technique and style you were encouraged to imitate.  With hard work, you were eventually able to produce a conventional, competent watercolor in a style that looked suspiciously like your instructor's.

We take a different approach that offers more choices.  We try to encourage you to find the particular things you want to express and help you identify the qualities you want to convey in your work.  We offer a variety of approaches that you might employ to make your work effective. 

To accomplish this, we developed a class that explores in slide shows and illustrations the use of color and design by past and present artists.  We demonstrate how you can apply these ideas in your own work.  We help you define what it is you want to say in your painting and offer possibilities and choices for expressing your ideas and feelings.  In short, we help each student find a personal message and a personal graphic language that will make his/her work uniquely his/her own.

Each day will begin with a lesson either illustrated with slides or prints and/or demonstrated.  These lessons offer a variety of ways to employ shape, space, and color in a painting.  You then explore how these ideas might be adapted to your own particular expressive intent.  The daily critiques are designed to help participants understand how to make work more effective and satisfying.

This team-taught workshop will be a unique learning experience for any serious painter.  We bring over sixty years of combined teaching experience, a broad knowledge of art history, and a light and enthusiastic touch to this different kind of workshop.  We hope you will join us!

Information on Skip and Toph's  "THE PALETTE MAGAZINE"!!!