Relational Painting: From a Single Form to Complex Space (Online Course) Winter 2025 w/ Edmond Praybe
January 10 to February 7 (Fridays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to
students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
DEMO:
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
Course Description
Participants will examine ways to make cohesive, relational still life paintings during this 5-week course. We will address a variety of formal concerns to make the paintings solid self-contained worlds. Issues from figure/ground relationships to value structure to the treatment of form and edges will be explored. Students will create a new painting for each of the 5 weeks of this course. The paintings will be based on still life setups that the participants will make in their own homes or studio spaces. Instruction will be given on how to think about setting up a still life arrangement.
We will meet virtually once a week via Zoom for topic overviews, instructor demonstrations, slide presentations and group discussions. During our meetings we will discuss technical and conceptual ideas and review historical and contemporary examples for each week’s topic. Students are encouraged to paint along and ask questions during demonstrations. Individual critiques will be conducted over Padlet and will be supplemented by class discussions each week.
Some basic familiarity with oil or acrylic paint will be useful.
Course Outline
Week 1: Single object still life and figure/ground relationships
Week 2: Discovering a value structure
Week 3: Mark-making as relational thinking
Week 4: Using color abstractly
Week 5: Finding structure in a complicated still life
Course Materials List
My Current Palette (Oil):
(if there is another palette you are most comfortable with, by all means use it. Likewise substitutes here and there are acceptable as well) Artist grade paint. I use mostly RGH, but any brand you prefer will be fine.
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon (or Light)
Indian Yellow
Raw Sienna
Cadmium Orange or Pyrrole Orange
Cadmium Red Medium or Pyrrole Red
Quinacridone Red
Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Magenta
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Phthalo Green
-preferred painting medium (I use Gamblin solvent free liquid medium and CAS textured impasto medium)
-palette (hand held or table)
- suggested brushes
-flat bristle: #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 at least one of each. One or two smaller soft rounds
-palette knife
-container with a lid for solvent or cleaning oil
-odorless mineral spirits or a brush cleaning oil (linseed, safflower, etc.)
-rags or paper towels
-Painting Surfaces: 5 small to medium sized canvases, panels or primed paper (arches oil paper is a great choice) 11”x 14” or larger
-sketchbook or drawing paper
-pencils and/or charcoal, eraser, pencil sharpener
Additional materials:
-medium grit sandpaper
-gloves
-yard stick/straight edge
-apron/smock
- white or off-white artist tape
January 10 to February 7 (Fridays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to
students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
DEMO:
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
Course Description
Participants will examine ways to make cohesive, relational still life paintings during this 5-week course. We will address a variety of formal concerns to make the paintings solid self-contained worlds. Issues from figure/ground relationships to value structure to the treatment of form and edges will be explored. Students will create a new painting for each of the 5 weeks of this course. The paintings will be based on still life setups that the participants will make in their own homes or studio spaces. Instruction will be given on how to think about setting up a still life arrangement.
We will meet virtually once a week via Zoom for topic overviews, instructor demonstrations, slide presentations and group discussions. During our meetings we will discuss technical and conceptual ideas and review historical and contemporary examples for each week’s topic. Students are encouraged to paint along and ask questions during demonstrations. Individual critiques will be conducted over Padlet and will be supplemented by class discussions each week.
Some basic familiarity with oil or acrylic paint will be useful.
Course Outline
Week 1: Single object still life and figure/ground relationships
Week 2: Discovering a value structure
Week 3: Mark-making as relational thinking
Week 4: Using color abstractly
Week 5: Finding structure in a complicated still life
Course Materials List
My Current Palette (Oil):
(if there is another palette you are most comfortable with, by all means use it. Likewise substitutes here and there are acceptable as well) Artist grade paint. I use mostly RGH, but any brand you prefer will be fine.
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon (or Light)
Indian Yellow
Raw Sienna
Cadmium Orange or Pyrrole Orange
Cadmium Red Medium or Pyrrole Red
Quinacridone Red
Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Magenta
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Phthalo Green
-preferred painting medium (I use Gamblin solvent free liquid medium and CAS textured impasto medium)
-palette (hand held or table)
- suggested brushes
-flat bristle: #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 at least one of each. One or two smaller soft rounds
-palette knife
-container with a lid for solvent or cleaning oil
-odorless mineral spirits or a brush cleaning oil (linseed, safflower, etc.)
-rags or paper towels
-Painting Surfaces: 5 small to medium sized canvases, panels or primed paper (arches oil paper is a great choice) 11”x 14” or larger
-sketchbook or drawing paper
-pencils and/or charcoal, eraser, pencil sharpener
Additional materials:
-medium grit sandpaper
-gloves
-yard stick/straight edge
-apron/smock
- white or off-white artist tape
January 10 to February 7 (Fridays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to
students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
DEMO:
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
Course Description
Participants will examine ways to make cohesive, relational still life paintings during this 5-week course. We will address a variety of formal concerns to make the paintings solid self-contained worlds. Issues from figure/ground relationships to value structure to the treatment of form and edges will be explored. Students will create a new painting for each of the 5 weeks of this course. The paintings will be based on still life setups that the participants will make in their own homes or studio spaces. Instruction will be given on how to think about setting up a still life arrangement.
We will meet virtually once a week via Zoom for topic overviews, instructor demonstrations, slide presentations and group discussions. During our meetings we will discuss technical and conceptual ideas and review historical and contemporary examples for each week’s topic. Students are encouraged to paint along and ask questions during demonstrations. Individual critiques will be conducted over Padlet and will be supplemented by class discussions each week.
Some basic familiarity with oil or acrylic paint will be useful.
Course Outline
Week 1: Single object still life and figure/ground relationships
Week 2: Discovering a value structure
Week 3: Mark-making as relational thinking
Week 4: Using color abstractly
Week 5: Finding structure in a complicated still life
Course Materials List
My Current Palette (Oil):
(if there is another palette you are most comfortable with, by all means use it. Likewise substitutes here and there are acceptable as well) Artist grade paint. I use mostly RGH, but any brand you prefer will be fine.
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Lemon (or Light)
Indian Yellow
Raw Sienna
Cadmium Orange or Pyrrole Orange
Cadmium Red Medium or Pyrrole Red
Quinacridone Red
Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Magenta
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
Phthalo Green
-preferred painting medium (I use Gamblin solvent free liquid medium and CAS textured impasto medium)
-palette (hand held or table)
- suggested brushes
-flat bristle: #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 at least one of each. One or two smaller soft rounds
-palette knife
-container with a lid for solvent or cleaning oil
-odorless mineral spirits or a brush cleaning oil (linseed, safflower, etc.)
-rags or paper towels
-Painting Surfaces: 5 small to medium sized canvases, panels or primed paper (arches oil paper is a great choice) 11”x 14” or larger
-sketchbook or drawing paper
-pencils and/or charcoal, eraser, pencil sharpener
Additional materials:
-medium grit sandpaper
-gloves
-yard stick/straight edge
-apron/smock
- white or off-white artist tape