Level: all
Saturday & Sunday
Oct 24 - Oct 25
10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Instructor: Lenny Moskowitz
Fee: $325 (incl all supplies)
In this workshop, we will explore a highly painterly and abstract approach to landscape, focusing on the creation of atmosphere, light, and spatial depth. Working from landscape references, memory, and imagination, participants will learn how to move beyond literal representation and interpret the landscape through expressive color, dynamic mark-making, layered surfaces, and intuitive composition.
Throughout the demonstration, we will investigate ways to suggest distance, form, and light within an abstract framework, creating paintings that evoke a sense of place while maintaining freedom and spontaneity. Demonstrations and hands-on exercises will cover color mixing, surface development, compositional structure, and techniques for building depth and movement in a painting.
We will also explore complementary color underpainting—for example, establishing a red ground beneath a green lawn—to create optical vibration and enhance luminosity as subsequent layers are applied. Working both from dark to light and light to dark, we will use the strength of value relationships to build a more dynamic portrayal of depth and spatial movement. In addition, we will incorporate mediums to develop fluid, finished washes and to strengthen transparent, layered color interactions throughout the painting process.
This workshop is designed for artists who wish to develop a more expressive and painterly visual language while deepening their understanding of abstraction, landscape, and the illusion of space. Participants will leave with new approaches, practical techniques, and a collection of studies and finished works inspired by the relationship between land, light and paint.
Note: Artwork by Lenny Moskowitz
ALL SUPPLIES WILL BE PROVIDED BY RAC. We suggest you wear a smock or apron to protect your clothing.
About the Instructor:
Lenny Moskowitz is a Connecticut landscape painter who lives in Branford. He graduated with his B.F.A from the Philadelphia College of Art and received his M.F.A. from Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy. Lenny has participated in both group and solo shows at numerous Galleries throughout the U.S. and has taught classes and workshops in Connecticut, Block Island, and Nantucket. Presently he teaches at Silvermine Arts Center and the Rowayton Arts Center. He has been awarded several artist residencies, including at the Anderson Center in Minnesota and at the NISDA Foundation on Nantucket, MA. In the summer of 2011 he was awarded a residency at Weir Farm in Wilton, CT. He makes yearly painting trips to Maine, Nantucket, and frequently sojourns to the surrounding Connecticut woods to paint.