Observational Painting with PCAD Professor Jason Ward - 3 week course
Wednesdays, November 5, 12, 19 - 6-9pm
Students may sign up for a single class for the first class, or the entire 3 week course
$140 for the 3 week course or students may sign up for the November 5th class as a single class for $60
This course will help students strengthen their observation painting skills. To do so we’ll look at how to design a compelling composition. To achieve this we’ll learn to simplify what we see while using both linear and atmospheric perspective. Students will develop a sensitivity to light, color, and tone that will bring a feeling of mood to their work. The course will also cover material handling and how to represent different surfaces and textures. Students who complete this course will have an understanding of the artistic principle that will help them when working directly from observation. Min 4, Max 10 participants
Materials List:
Acrylic Paints: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sieanna, Windsor Newton make good quality inexpensive acrylic paints.
Brushes: A variety of brush sizes and shapes for Acrylic paints.
Palette Knife
Palette: Glass, wood, or plastic artist palettes are best, a pad of palette paper is fine. Avoid water color palettes, paper plates, tin foil, or other non-palette surfaces
Canvas, Panel, or Heavy Bodied Paper surface: canvas will need several coats of gesso to give a smooth surface, Masonite, MDF, or Birchwood panel may only need one or two coats of gesso, Watercolor or Bristle Velum paper may only need one coat of gesso *Note paper may curl or wrinkle while applying gesso, if so keep your coats thing and press paper under weight for a few hours.
Water Jar
Paper Towels
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Jason Ward Bio:
Jason is primarily a representational painter whose work covers a wide variety of subjects including landscape, still life, narrative scenes, and paleo art. Across subject matter, Jason’s work is united by its use of dynamic light, atmospheric color, and attention to detail. Jason is a working artist currently living in Lancaster, PA and teaching in the undergraduate program at The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. He received his BFA the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and his MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
Throughout his career Jason has worn many hats. He started exhibiting his work in commercial galleries during his junior year at MICA. In 2006 he opened and co-managed a gallery in downtown Lancaster, PA. Around the same time he developed a consistent plein air practice and began teaching classes and workshops at the York Art Association. A longtime goal of becoming a professor of fine art was achieved in 2016, when Jason began teaching at The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. In 2022 he was a resident artist at the North Museum of Science & Nature, a relationship that remains productive today.