Great Gatsby Impressionist Workshop
September 11 - 16, 2010
LEVEL: Intermediate - Advanced (Master Level)
Sutton Studios & Gallery, San Francisco
Photographs from Earlier Great Gatsby Impressionist Workshops
Sutton Studios & Gallery: Map and Directions
Visitor Information: Where to Stay, Eat, and Visit
"Summer Afternoon" by Jeremy Sutton
Experience an Impressionist Immersion
Become a Gatsby Impressionist! Using images you capture at the Gatsby Summer Afternoon in the magnificent Dunsmuir Historic Estate in Oakland, California, you will learn in the Great Gatsby Impressionist Workshop how to apply impressionist painting techniques, on and off the computer. Capture the atmosphere, light, movement, mood and music of a unparalelled visual feast. Take home a lovely impressionist style painting on canvas that you create during this workshop, and enough wonderful images to keep you busy painting for the following year!
Great Gatsby Impressionist Workshop 2008
The 2007 Gatsby Impressionists and their paintings and their instructor.
Beyond just painting, enjoy a class visit to the beautiful and historic Japanese Tea Garden, a visit to vintage cloth shops on Haight Street, and a fun swing dance lesson taught by Angie Major, professional dancer and the 2007 Miss Art Deco. The Gatsby Summer Afternoon is a spectacular event which features, specially catered for workshop participatnts and their guests, a delicious and elegant Champagne Picnic Luncheon, alongside an Artists' Corner Impressionist Art Exhibit. Enjoy dancing to the Don Neeley's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, seeing the DecoBelles perform and viewing vintage automobiles. This workshop is the perfect opportunity to bring your spouse or significant other along for a fantastic, unforgettable week in San Francisco at the best time of year, the heart of the Indian Summer.
Cheers!
The spread!
The class size is limited to eight, small enough to ensure that every student recieves personal one-on-one attention and assistance.
What You'll Learn About
Henk working on a waterlily painting inspired by the Japanese Tea Garden.
Warming up with still life painting...
- Introduction to the history and techniques of the Impressionist painters
- How to translate the approach of the French Impressionists such as Monet and Renoir, into techniques you can apply using Corel Painter X and acrylic paints
- Techniques for capturing and depicting impressionist scenes
- Observation and depiction of light, atmosphere and space
- Color and color mixing strategies and techniques
- Corel Painter X impressionist brush combinations
- Brushwork techniques, digital and non-digital
- Palette knife techniques with acrylic paint (post-print techniques)
Arthur applying palette knfie painting techniques
Details from Ginny's painting
Who this Workshop is for
This class is aimed at students who have already studied Jeremy's book, Painter X Creativity, and DVD, How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X, both of which are pre-requisites for this course.
Classic cars, classic dress....
What You'll Need to Bring With You
Equipment
You'll need to bring your own computer, Mac or PC, with the latest version of Corel Painter X, a Wacom tablet, plenty of free hard drive space, lots of RAM, and a DVD writer for backing up all your material.
Bring a digital camera,with extra memory cards and batteries. Please ensure all batteries are fully charged before the Gatsby Summer Afternoon event. There are no electrical outlets!
Clothing
Please bring loose comfortable clothing and comfortable shoes with leather soles that slip on wood for the dance lesson. For the Gatsby Summer Afternoon you will be required to dress in afternoon attire in the style of the 1920s/30s, or some approximation to it. Visit the Art Deco Society of California "Whatever shall I wear to the Gatsby" page for handy closet tips. Have fun with the dressing up!
Dressed to the nines!
Class Fee
The Great Gatsby Impressionist Workshop fee is $2,500. This fee includes:
- all instruction,
- the workshop binder,
- the Gatsby Summer Afternoon entrance,
- an elegant and delicious Champagne Picnic Luncheon (drinks included),
- a wonderful Royal Society Jazz Orchestra music CD,
- art materials used during the week (canvas, inks, paints, crayons, experimental courtesy print, etc),
- the Special Impressionist City Tour,
- a '20s Charleston dance lesson from Angie Major, Miss Art Deco 2007, and
- membership of the Master Forum.
Guest social program fee: $225 (inlcudes all weekend activities: sightseeing and vintage shopping trip, dance lesson and the Gatsby Summer Afternoon entrance and catered Champagne Picnic Luncheon).
The Artists' Corner table setting.
The course fee does not include Jeremy's book or DVD sets, travel, lodgings or meals, with exception of the Great Gatsby Picnic which is included in the fee. Students should bring their own computers, either Mac or Windows, either laptop or desktop, equipped with the latest version of Corel Painter X and a Wacom tablet. Your computer should have enough RAM to run the software (500MB RAM minimum recommended), enough hard drive space to save project files generated during the week (12 GB free hard drive space or larger recommended. A high capacity external hard drive is an excellent idea.
Besides bringing your computer and source files, you are encouraged to bring samples of your own work (digital and non-digital) to share with the class and inspiring books for the library (just make sure your name is clearly written in the books).
Dancing to the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra...
Experimental Courtesy Print
The course fee includes one courtesy experimental canvas print (approximately 20 x 24 inches) of an image created during class. The courtesy print is only intended as a study to provide a practice surface for experimentation and is not a substitute for a professionally proofed and color corrected image. No guarantees are provided regarding the quality of the courtesy print. No proof prints or reprints will be made and no prints will be printed after the class is over.
Sam's view of the Dunsmuir House.
Class Hours
Saturday — 1pm - 5pm Special Impressionist City Tour & Dance Lesson
Sunday — 10am - 8pm Gatsby Summer Afternoon
Monday — recovery, sightseeing and image selection day
Tuesday & Wednesday — 9:30am - 5pm Digital Painting
Thursday — 9:30am - 5pm Acrylic Painting
Special Guest Teacher
In addition to your instruction by Jeremy Sutton, you will also enjoy the input of Peggy Gyulai, professional oil painter trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Sutton Studios & Gallery: Map and Directions
Visitor Information: Where to Stay, Eat, and Visit
Photographs from Earlier Great Gatsby Impressionist Workshops
Laurie, Jeremy and Rick in front of Jeremy's portrait of Laurie and Rick.
The 2008 class at the Legion of Honor
Which Resources and Materials?
Whatever level of Painter user you are, you will definitely benefit from joining my new online education center www.PaintboxJ.com. In PaintboxJ you will find new video tutorials on Corel Painter 11 added monthly, and much more. The fastest way I can help you with Painter is for you join one of my in-person workshops. In terms of my instructional books and DVDs, I recommend starting off with my book, Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, and introductory DVD, Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton. The book is a great complement to all my other materials and also serves as the required text book for all my classes. The book goes deeper and broader than any DVD. It also provides convenient step lists for many of the techniques shared on the DVDs. The Learning Corel Painter X DVD gives you a good overview of the software.
Once you are familiar with the basics then I recommend the more advanced DVD sets, How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X
and Expanding Your Creativity with Jeremy Sutton - The Art of Collage Portraiture. Both these more advanced DVD sets take you through real-life case studies from beginning to end, sharing my work-flow, organizational systems, creative process, decision-making strategies, techniques and tools, plus including extensive extra brushes, art materials, tutorial images and more. In both DVDs I show how I apply physical paint onto my prints.
The interface has not changed significantly between Painter X and Painter 11 so you can easily apply the lessons from all my earlier materials when using Corel Painter 11. Likewise my PaintboxJ Painter 11 tutorials can all be easily applied in earlier versions of Painter. I do strongly recommend upgrading to Painter 11 if you currently have an earlier version. The newest Painter is the best yet. It is significantly faster than earlier versions and includes a whole new class of wonderful brushes (the Hard Media brushes).
For information on other Painter resources out there, please explore the Links page.
PPA members will earn one merit for attending this course.
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