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TRAVEL WORKSHOPS

September 5-12, 2012 – Discover the Beauty of the Italian Amalfi Coast One-Week Trip
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: TBD| Course Code: TBD
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Join Silvermine for a painting adventure to the beautiful Amalfi, an area of sensational coastal scenery and history with terraced lemon groves and antique gardens. Hillside villages and farms have long been connected by ancient footpaths ready for our explorations with paints and camera. David Dunlop, our Emmy-award winning instructor, will lead you through this magnificent region of Italy with a day trip the island of Capri. Our historic town of Ravello offers ancient gardens, views to the sea, and spectacular vistas, a perfect venue for painters.

LECTURES

March 11, 2012 – More on Color
Sunday | Sunday | 4:30 pm -6:30pm
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $12 Non-Members; $10 Members| Course Code: DDSUN430PM031111
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Learn why cresting waves appear green, sunsets appear red and Van Gogh painted his face orange. Here is a closer look at the phenomena of vision as it moves form light to eyeball to brain and at last, into art. This second lecture on color examines how the eye fools the brain and the brain fools the eye; how color perception works as it adjusts to changing light and subjects; how painted colors go dull or brilliant; how surfaces affect color perception and brightness; how paint works to evoke colors feeling flat or deep; how paint can create effects of translucence and gloss or impenetrable matte effects, how artists can generate the sensation of iridescence( the peacock's tail). The lecture examines how painters and photographers use relative difference of light and dark and opposite colors to magically alter our perception. We will examine the effects of reflectance and shadow as forces that shape our ability to recognize and identify subjects and colors. And, we will see what 21st century artists are doing with color.

February 4, 2012 – Luminous Skies and How To Paint Them - Workshop
Saturday | 10:00 - 3:00pm for One Day
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $130 | Course Code: DDSA1000AM02042012
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In all my one-day workshops you may come and paint along or decide only to observe. Demonstrations will be oil, watercolor and acrylic. From the Venetian ceilings by Tiepolo to the dramatic effects of Turner and Rembrandt, to the brilliance of Monet, we examine how skies have been painted. Make luminous skies through the principles of simultaneous contrast. Create apparitions of fog and mist,humidity and atmospheric perspective with semi translucent glazes. Learn the secrets of dazzling sunlight through concentric annuli, coronas, halations, theatrically backlit and layered clouds, piercing sunbeams, the radiance of sunrise and sunset, the glare of midday. Learn to make skies lustrous and luminant or breathe with the promise of a departing storm. We explore historic uses of metaphor in skies and how to generate varieties of mood from the skies of sublime romanticism to sensations of infinity.

March 26-30, 2012 – New Horizons and Old Traditions in Landscape Painting (Oil, Watercolor, and Acrylic) - Workshop
5-Day Class | All Levels | All Mediums
Silvermine Art Guild| 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $600 | Course Code: DDSAT10AM111211
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Learn techniques and traditions of old master landscape painters from Rembrandt to Turner, Claude Lorraine to Hudson River painters, from Constable to Monet. The workshop covers the ideas,designs,techniques and materials of historic and contemporary landscape painters. There will be demonstrations of Dutch 17th Century artists revealing their compositional forms and their process for luminous translucence. With French Impressionists the demonstration will show their palette, their brush work, their compositional ideas and their applications of color theory. the demonstration of the Hudson River Painters will trace their roots, present their drawing and design systems and their oil sketching techniques. We conclude with currents in contemporary landscape painting including new technologies and materials. The workshop will cover centuries of historic techniques ( lost systems in oil and watercolor) through daily lecture-demonstrations followed by personal attention and counsel

How To Paint a Really Good Landscape and More -
Beginner to Intermediate
10 Weeks Begins January 17-March 20, 2012 | Tuesday | 9:30am-12:30pm
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $395 | Course Code: DDTUE930AM011712
Classical traditions and modern methods will be presented through demonstrations and hands-on instruction. How to build effective designs, sketches, color, values, perspective, textures, brushwork and learning from the masters (Da Vinci to Monet) are all part of this course. Demonstrations and illustrated lectures include techniques and ideas of the great masters in watercolor, oil, acrylic, photo-media and pastel. Subjects range from exacting representation to abstraction, from interiors to exteriors, urban to rural, seaside to farm and all forms of weather. Personal consultation in each class to help you realize your ambitions.
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Investigating the Landscape: In Representation, Abstraction, Expressionism and Illusion - Intermediate & Advanced
10 Weeks Begins January 17-March 20, 2012| Tuesday | 1:30pm-4:30pm
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $395 | Course Code: DDTU130PM01172012
There will be investigations in perception, sensation and how we experience color, motion, space, and orientation. We will borrow historic techniques and ideas across cultures from Europe to China. Consideration of the machinations of color: its perception, mixing and variable applications will be covered. Personal psychology, discoveries in neuroscience, mysticism, paint technology and new materials will also be covered. We will build brush vocabularies, design vocabularies and try new materials. Through demonstrations and illustrated talks students will learn the techniques and ideas of historic artists. Demonstrations will include watercolor, acrylic and oil. Personal consultations in each class cultivate your own vision and enable you to realize your personal artistic ambitions.
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Extend Your Reach: Art In The 21st Century
10 Weeks Begins January 18-March 21, 2012| Tuesday | 1:30pm-4:30pm
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $395 | Course Code: DDW130PM01182012
Here is your laboratory for experiments in new materials, techniques and ideas for working in unfamiliar media, for embracing the unknown, for applying discoveries of neuroscience, perceptual psychology, and art history form across cultures; for linking new technologies to old techniques; for embracing trial and error and a courageous will to make mistakes; for questing after personal authenticity in your art; for a transcendent view of where you are and where you wish to go; for separating cultural influences from personal perceptions; and for pioneering in your art. Students should welcome explorations in art history, science, and culture in a laboratory where we push the limits of our imagination, skills, and materials.
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