Level: all

Thursday

Jul 8

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Instructor: Lenny Moskowitz

Fee: $30

Workshop Description

Follow along as popular instructor, Lenny Moskowitz, shows students how to transform a seemingly bland photographic image into a brilliantly composed collage.  You’ll learn how the “big shapes” and the varying degrees of light can guide you in the creation of a collage you’ll be proud to share.  This workshop is open to all, irrespective of artistic experience. It’s a time to be playful and creative and to learn some observational and artistic skills that will serve you well – way beyond the scope of this workshop.

Note: This class will be taught online using Zoom. Please have the app downloaded to your device and become familiar with it prior to joining class. Once registered for the workshop, you will receive a Zoom invite.

Supplies: 

  • Heavy card stock paper
  • Scissors
  • Elmers glue and/or glue stick
  • Ball point pen
  • Black Magic marker
  • Crayons or Oil pastels
  • inexpensive set of watercolors
  • paint brush
  • cup of water
  • Fashion magazines

For an additional $25, RAC will deliver all the supplies you need to your door provided you live within a 15 mile radius of RAC.  For those living further away, expect an additional $20 shipping charge. Call 203-866-2744 (x-2) for more details. 

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.

Here’s a rather bland landscape photo that Lenny chose to use as his reference

 

 

 

And here’ what he created using his method of finding the big shapes and focusing on values using collage and mark making as his creative tools.