UPCOMING EVENTS
 
ARTIST COMMON AUTUMN WORKSHOP 2019
 
Autumn is the best time to visit New England. Join us in a renovated church studio for workshops taught by professional artists Erin Spencer and J. Kirk Richards. Visit four of our favorite Massachusetts art museums. Lodging is available in the church studio apartment. The schedule is as follows:
 

Workshop Presenters:

ERIN SPENCER
Workshop: Landscape Painting

In this workshop we will explore the process of beginning a painting by making value sketches and color studies of the landscape on location. Then we will bring our ideas into the studio to create a painting from our sketches. Our time will include instruction and demonstration of color mixing, of implementing various techniques from underpainting to glazing, and of ways to utilize different materials. We will place emphasis on adapting a scene and creating balance in the composition to imbue a painting with personal expression and not exact replication. Come ready to paint outdoors as well as in the studio.

Erin's work can be viewed at www.erinspencerart.com

J. KIRK RICHARDS
Workshop: Composing with the Human Figure

We will talk about and practice designing a composition with multiple figures, with an emphasis on shapes, rhythm, volume, and color placement. We will practice beginning a composition from imagination and developing the composition further with the aid of a live model.

Kirk's work can be viewed at jkirkrichards.com

MUSEUM VISITS

Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to education and art appreciation inspired by the legacy of Norman Rockwell.
www.nrm.org/

The collection of the Clark features European and American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in French Impressionist and Academic paintings, British oil sketches, drawings, and silver, and the work of American artists Winslow Homer, George Inness, and John Singer Sargent.
www.clarkart.edu

MASS MoCA exhibits art by both well-known and emerging artists, focusing on large-scale, immersive installations that would be impossible to realize in conventional museums. The broad-shouldered, raw industrial character of its soaring galleries (with 110,000 square feet of open and often naturally lit space) has proven both inspiring and liberating to artists.
massmoca.org

Today the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art, welcoming more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary.
www.mfa.org