VACATION AND LEARN
WALLOWA LAKE ART WORKSHOPS

Responsive Figure Painting and Drawing Workshops
By
Sam Collett
At Beautiful Wallowa Lake

ARTIST SAM COLLETT is conducting the workshops at beautiful Wallowa Lake in NE Oregon, six miles south of Joseph Oregon in the Swiss Alps of the west. Wallowa Lake is a stunning glacial lake at the base of Chief Joseph Mountain in the Wallowa range; a destination resort area for outdoor activities and natural beauty. The arts are alive and well here with four bronze foundries and galleries in Joseph. This is a natural and beautiful environment for the arts and a great opportunity to explore one’s interest in painting and drawing.

Mr. Collett has more than twenty years of teaching experience in realism painting and drawing. Those venues include Salt Lake Art Center UT, University of Utah, The Kimball Art Center Park City Utah, Kings Cottage Art School, the Peterson’s Art center, and workshops at The Crossroads Arts Center Oregon and Pendleton Center for the Arts.

Artist Sam Collett work has been exhibited at the Salmagundi Club New York, American Pastel Society New York, Degas Pastel Society New Orleans, Louisiana, Oil Painters Of America four times, Salon International Juried Competition at the Green house Gallery Texas, one person show Kimball Art Center Park City, Utah, University Of Utah , Boise State University Idaho, Salt Lake Art Center Utah, one person show Springville Museum Utah, one person show Bountiful Arts Center Utah and numerous galleries the western United States.

2010 Spring and Fall Classes

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Winter 2010 Classes

TITLE: Drawing the Head

CLASS DESCRIPTION: The first goal of the class is to improve the student’s knowledge of the visual nature of the head by using its structural and anatomical qualities.  The second goal is to translate these improved visual concepts into more accurate and expressive drawings. Drawing the head or drawing in general is an intellectual activity.  If the student does not draw from their visual concepts, i.e. volumemeteric shapes, but relies on their visual response alone the drawing will lack creative expressiveness and visual energy so the goal of this class to strive to draw past the outline.

MATERIALS: I have made arrangements with the Sheep Shed in Joseph to have what is needed available for the students.

PLACE: Eagle Cap Chalets conference room by the office.

CLASS DATES: Four Saturdays in January 9, 16, 23, and 30th.

CLASS FORMATE AND TIMES: 9 to noon, lunch break, 1:30 to 4:30. (We will work from plaster casts, the skeleton and live model.)

PRICE: 145.00 this includes models fee

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Spring and Fall Classes: Vacation & Learn

GENERAL STATEMENT:

This is to be a six day workshop divided into two segments between drawing and painting. Hosted at Eagle Cap Chalets lower conference room, right on the Wallowa River at the head of Wallowa Lake.
The first segment will be a two day drawing workshop followed by a four day painting workshop held consecutively for a total of six days. I will use live models throughout both workshops. Participates can do the drawing workshop only, the painting workshop only or both for the total six days. It is recommended that participates have basic drawing and basic painting experience. I will lecture to the group plus individually and I will also be painting along with the students as well as doing demonstrations for the whole group. The individual days will be divided between a morning session (9am to12.30) and afternoon session (2pm to 5pm) and there will be a general discussion and critic on the final session of the workshop (Sunday afternoon). Free time can be spent exploring this most beautiful area.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE:

To give the students concepts and methods for a better understanding of their visual field; to bring a greater clarity and objectivity to their visual focus then transferring those observation to the picture plane. To give the students the tools for them to use when they are back in their studios working on their painting or drawing to critique their progress and help them work through the problems that will arise; and finally to give them information to use to create stronger and more knowledgeable paintings and drawings.

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DRAWING:

Drawing classes are not schedoled for 2010 yet.. please check back!

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FIGURE PAINTING:

Karate is analogous to figure and portrait painting; in karate a three legged stool is the metaphor used in expressing the paradigm used for development and growth in martial arts. The legs of that stool are kata, progressions, and kumita take one leg away and the stool will not stand. The three legs of the stool in figure and portrait painting are 1.Analytical skills (intellectual curiosity) 2.Sensitivity to surface, materials and emotions and 3.Kinetic awareness (painting is a full body endeavor). Figure painting requires, of the artist, to have clear pictorial concepts, full concentration and in the moment attentiveness to pictorial development and materials to guide them to a successful conclusion of their art.

PAINTING WORKSHOP TOPICS FOR REVIEW:

• Overview of materials and painting grounds
• Thinking visually (most questions that arise in the process of painting are answered by referring to the initial pictorial concept).
• Shape recognition and shape placement (translating one’s three dimensional visual world on to the two dimensional picture plane)
• Organization of picture plane ( design and composition)
• Color (in realist painting the two most important components are value and temperature as opposed to local color.
• Gestural dynamics (learning to recognize their visual presence and learning to connect to their kinetic presence.
• Gestural recognition

PAINTING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

Thursday thru Friday:

Morning Session: Introduction lecture and demonstration to the whole group.
Afternoon Session: Students start a three session painting of model in the pose I used
for demonstration in the first session this will take us to Friday afternoon.

Saturday thru Sunday:

Morning Session:
Start second three session painting with new pose, this will take us To Sunday afternoon.
Sunday:
Afternoon Session: Finish second painting and final critique and group discussion.

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WORKSHOP DATES, SPRING AND FALL:

SPRING
Drawing Workshop: (TBA)
Painting Workshop: June 2nd - 5th, 2010

FALL
Drawing Workshop:(TBA)
Painting Workshop: Sept 15th - 18th, 2010

COST OF WORKSHOPS:
Drawing 200.00 TBA
Painting 400.00

MODEL FEES: $20.00 to 50.00

DEPOSIT: a deposit of $100.00 for the drawing class and $200.00 for the painting class is required 30 days prior to date of the workshops.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Once your place has been reserved, there will be a non-refundable cancellation charge of $50. No refund after 30 days prior to class. We reserve the right to cancel any workshop, in which case we will make a full refund.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION: contact Sam Collett Fine Art PO Box 114 Joseph, OR 97846
541 432 7110
www.samcollettfineart.com

LODGING:

AT WALLOWA LAKE; Eagle Cap Chalets has set aside lodging at a special rate for the participants of the workshop; it is their facility that houses the venue that will be used for the workshop.
Contact information: Email: info@eaglecapchalets.com
Website www.eaglecapchalets.com
Phone 541 432-4704
At Joseph Oregon; The Bronze Antler Bed & Breakfast will provide lodging at a special rate for participants of the workshop.
Contact information: Website www.bronzeantler.com
Phone 1 866 520 9769, 1 541 432 0230
P.S. Please contact Eagle Cap chalet or The Bronze Antler Bed & Breakfast for details on facilities and prices.

MATERIALS LIST for the drawing class and/or the painting class will be mailed to those who sign up for one or both of the workshops, or you can download the pdf here.