Level: all

Saturday

Sep 11

10:30 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Lenny Moskowitz

Fee: $85

This workshop will focus on abstracting landscapes through exaggeration and simplification. We will be using landscapes as the source of abstract designs. Working with our own photos, plus reproductions of a variety of artists’ landscape paintings, we will cover the basics of value and color and exploring ways of moving color forwards and backwards to create greater depth in our compositions.

We will concentrate on slowing down and reducing our designs to the simplest and most direct compositions. We will also play with exaggerating lights and darks to increase contrast.

Collage, drawing and painting will all be utilized in creating our abstract landscapes.

Previous experience is not necessary. Coming to the workshop with a playful and open approach is required!

Supply List:

A variety of drawing materials such as pencils, crayons, and water-soluble crayons.

Large drawing paper, scissors, glue, pencils, old magazines (preferably magazines that are colorful, like fashion, home, and garden, etc.), paint (your choice, acrylic, or watercolor), a couple of brushes, a palette to mix paint on, a spray bottle to keep your acrylic from drying out, painting surfaces (such as canvas boards, a stretch canvas, or paper), and a water jar.

If you’re using acrylics, it’s nice to have a medium, which is clear acrylic paint with no pigment in it. This comes in gloss or matte. Lenny prefers the matte because the paint is matte.

About Lenny:

Lenny Moskowitz is a Connecticut landscape painter who lives in New Haven with his wife.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 Quinnipiac University 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.

A note about Covid compliance:  You can be assured that RAC is doing everything possible to keep its customers and staff safe from the Corona Virus.  Our studio is spacious and airy with excellent air circulation and plenty of room for people to stay safely distanced from one another.  While our studio can easily accommodate up to 20 people, we are only allowing a maximum of 9 students and one teacher at a time.   Every student will have a 5′-6′ foot table of their own on which to work and will have their own set of supplies.

Note that we strongly encourage all students to be vaccinated.  Anyone unvaccinated needs to let us know and will be asked to wear a mask. Hand sanitizer will be available at the entrance and exits to the studio and all shared spaces and equipment will be thoroughly disinfected before and after every class.   As always, please do not come to the studio if you are feeling sick or have the following symptoms:  cough, fever, shortness of breath (other than the excitement of seeing us), sudden loss of smell or taste, chills, body aches, or sore throat.