MASTER TROMPE L'OEIL WORKSHOP LEVEL TWO
INSTRUCTED BY WILLIAM COCHRAN
Class Fee $1895.00
This workshop has been postponed to Fall 2010. Actual class date will be announced shortly so please contact the school if you are interested in registering for this workshop!
A note from William: My schedule is extremely full this year, as I will be designing a major urban art trail in Rochester and installing large new murals in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Rockville and Gaithersburg, Maryland, as well as designing a sculpture for Druid Hill Park in Baltimore and a few other things. However, I have been able to set aside a single week for teaching in 2009, and that week is scheduled for a five day Level 2 class in December in Sarasota!
From November 30 to December 4, I will be back at Donna Phelp's school to teach the next level of the Tompe L'Oeil Mastery Series, this one focusing more on color theory and brushwork, as well as the perennial focus on value and temperature. The subject is a colorful still life with glass, cloth, wood, a candle, a flower, a ribbon, a pair of glasses, etc. This will likely be the only Level 2 class I teach in the US in 2009. Space will be limited and some students from the Level 1 classes from other areas will likely want to join us.
I really hope to see you there, and look forward to more good music, good coffee, camaraderie and an intense learning experience that keeps us all climbing higher and higher together.
The Level 2 Workshop: The Level 2 class in the Trompe L'Oeil Master Program maintains Level 1's strong focus on learning to see. It continues to emphasize values as the key to creating the illusion of dimension. However, Level 2 greatly advances the focus to include learning to better see, distinguish, and work with cools and warms, the critical importance of edges, and key principles of color theory. Although color is the area where painters most often become lost and lose confidence, it is in fact simpler to master than values or temperature. And it is one of the most conspicuous and potentially satisfying aspects of your painting to the viewer. If the color is in harmony, the painting will generally be pleasing.
Level 2 teaches the use of opposing colors to create maximum contrast, stability and beauty, to create a unified palette, and to strengthen and simplify color mixing for trustworthy results. In short, if Level 1 is about learning to see, Level 2 is about learning to paint, and to build harmonious paintings - to create powerful artistic illusions that delight the eye.
The Level 2 class illusion painting is of an architectural niche with a still life of diverse objects that includes bold color and a range of materials, including metal, glass and fabric. Advanced topics include deep relief (Level 1 produced only the illusion of shallow relief), deep, transparent shadows, reflected light, focal points, and an exploration of how brushwork aids the depiction of different textures.
Some big screen projection illustrated lectures and demonstrations are part of Level 2 as they were in Level 1. But during most of the class you will be engaged in the painting process, with a goal of producing a tasteful architectural illusion with a much more varied palette of materials, textures and colors. As in Level 1, you can expect considerable personal attention from the instructor.
