Saturday

Youth Studio Arts: Drawing

--after Renoir's 'Conversation with the Gardener'

Youth Studio Arts: Drawing
Entering grade suggested: 7-12

Art and portfolio prep week designed to inspire serious students to explore mediums, improve technical ability and examine their own work through critique. Artists work at their own pace in assignments and direction of choice.  Direct observation, master's works, as well as guided direction in established individual projects.

Professional quality [not student grade] dry mediums: Graphite pencil, charcoal pencil, colored pencil, woodless colored pencil, Conte crayon, oil pastel, pastel pencil, and or soft 'chalk' pastel.

Week culminates in an art salon/reception produced and planned by the artists for peers, friends and family viewing.

A strong foundation in drawing advised before incorporating color and or moving onto wet media (painting) workshop

Youth Workshops 2011
SMU-in-Plano Summer Youth Program
June 27-July 1, 2011. 9-4pm

Youth Workshops 2009-2003
SMU-in-Plano Summer Youth Program

Thursday

Youth Studio Arts: Painting

--after Rousseau's 'Sleeping Gypsy'
Youth Studio Arts: Painting
Entering Grade Suggested: 7-12

Art and portfolio prep week designed to inspire serious students to explore mediums, improve technical ability and examine their own work through critique. Assignments from direct observation (object, landscape, portrait) as well as guided direction in established individual projects. Graphite pencil, colored pencil, Conte crayon, oil pastel and or chalk pastel.
Week culminates in an art salon/reception produced by the artists for friends and family viewing.

A strong foundation in drawing advised before choosing a wet media (painting)workshop

Youth Workshops 2011
SMU-in-Plano Summer Youth Program
June 27-July 1, 2011. 9-4pm

Youth Workshops 2009
SMU-in-Plano Summer Youth Program

Youth Workshops 2005
SMU-in-Plano Summer Youth Program

Youth Workshops 2003
SMU-in-Plano Summer Youth Program

Wednesday

Bio


MEET THE INSTRUCTOR Cynthia Padilla instructs all-media painting and drawing courses for prestigious universities, major museums, arboreta, art societies across the U S, Canada and Central America. Called to curate and juror exhibitions, lecture and demo, and lead painting retreats worldwide, the Dallas, TX based artist graduated California State University Los Angeles, began a 20 + year career in surface design, sketching in museums and galleries across Europe. Padilla’s warm and encouraging style has guided enthusiasts of all levels and all ages to sketch and paint with confidence!

Am I coming to your town? Request me.
Contact: padillapost@gmail.com

Monday

Self Portrait Workshop

"Self Portrait w Palette"-Gauguin

"Self Portrait Workshop"
Apply the techniques of the Great Masters of the self portrait--- Cézanne, Matisse, Warhol, Picasso, Kahlo, Van Gogh and more. Working from photo reference, choose artistic styles ranging from realist/academic to abstract/contemporary. At every level in growth, the artist should revisit the self portrait and international arts instructor Cynthia Padilla will work with you at whatever level you are now to begin your self portrait series.

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Portrait Workshop - Oil Pastel

--Matisse

"Portraits - Oil Pastel"
Learning how to draw portraits inspired by the works of the "Great Masters" of portraiture is a time honored tradition. Copy a simple gridded sketch, observe instructor demo, and then follow along step-by-step to completion of frameable work.. Welcome advanced and returning artists as well as complete beginners.

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Portraits

---dry medium


---wet medium











"Portraits - All Media"
An investigation of the genre as inspired by the Great Masters of portrait drawing ----Renoir, Matisse, Da Vinci, Chardin, Cézanne, and more. And or portrait painting----Matisse, Warhol, Picasso, Kahlo, Van Gogh and more. Explore techniques, from realistic to abstract. Bring in and work in the medium of your choice.

For those choosing dry media (chalk pastel, oil pastel, hard pastel,Conte crayon, colored pencil, colored pencil sticks, graphite, etc), demo in the exciting new ultra soft, low dust, pan pastels http://panpastel.com/ you mix, blend, layer & apply just like paint! For those choosing wet media ( watercolor, acrylic, oil, etc), demo in the exciting new Chroma http://www.chromaonline.com/ Interactive brand acrylics which can be re-wet/ re-worked to float as transparently as watercolor, remain open like buttery oil paints, or cover opaquely as gouache!

Complete beginner? Can paint but can’t draw? No problem. Begin with a simple gridded sketch, a time -honored method even the Masters employed. No live models. We will instead spend time focused on process and work from high quality photo reproductions [a method widely used in academic contexts] to stretch artistically or master technique. Advanced or returning artists welcomed to bring in personal photo reference.

Am I coming to your town? Request me: padillapost@gmail.com

Portrait Painting - Acrylic

--Peter Paul Rubens

PORTRAIT PAINTING
Explore portrait painting inspired by Renoir, Matisse, Warhol, Kahlo, Klee, Van Gogh and more. Working from photo reference (a method widely used in academic teaching to develope skills of observation necessary to draw and paint well), beginners will anlyze and then duplicate techniques. Advanced artists can modify technique or subject. Can’t draw? No problem, begin with a simple gridded sketch, a time-honored method even the Masters employed.

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Sunday

Landscape Workshop

C.Padilla after Franz Marc's "Horse in Landscape"


"Landscapes: In the Masters Tradition"
An investigation of the genre as inspired by O’Keeffe, Benton, Van Gogh, Monet, Rousseau, Turner and more. Learn how to interpret photo references into personal style and expand your present mastery of tricks and techniques via examination the works of the great masters of landscape painting. Can’t draw? No problem, begin with a simple gridded sketch, a time -honored method even the Masters employed. Complete beginners follow along step by step to completion of framable work in acrylic, watercolor or pastels. mAdvanced and returning artists welcome to work in another medium of thier proficiency and can choose to work on a grand scale down to a collection of diminutive canvases.

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Painting from the Masters












'Painting from the Masters'- all media

An investigation of painting inspired by the Great Masters of landscape, seascape, portraiture, abstract, floral, western, the figurative nude, still life and more.

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Sketching & Drawing from the Masters







--J M W Turner,  'Torso'


'Sketching & Drawing from the Masters'- all media

Investigation of dry mediums, tools and techniques inspired by the works of the Great Masters. Work in the medium of your choosing in the genres of your interest. Photographic reference…landscape, seascape, portraiture, abstract, floral, figurative nude, still life, and more...widely used in academic teaching and learning contexts, quickly develops skills necessary to sketch and draw well. So in the time-honored method of the Masters, work will begin via a simple gridded sketch so that those unsure of their natural abilities and even complete beginners with no previous art training progress with confidence!

Dry mediums can include soft pastel, chalk pastel, hard pastel,Conte crayon, colored pencil, colored pencil sticks, graphite, etc). Special opportunity to explore the exciting new ultra soft, low dust, pan pastels http://panpastel.com/ you mix, blend, layer & apply just like paint!

SUPPLY LIST: TBD

2010 Sketching & Drawing from the Masters Workshops
Creative Arts Center. Dallas, TX
'Drawing from the Masters,' Jan


Collin College SAIL program, Plano, TX
"O'Keeffe, Klee, Kandinsky, Klimnt-Pastel," Jan
"Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Romanticism-Pastel" Feb


2009 Sketching & Drawing from the Masters Workshops
Creative Arts Center. Dallas, TX
Craft Guild Dallas. Dallas, TX
Collin College SAIL program, Plano, TX
"Figurative Nude-Pastel"Nov
"Figure: Clothed & Costumed-Pastel,"Dec
"Portraits-Pastel,"Feb


2008 Sketching & Drawing from the Masters Workshops
Creative Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Collin College SAIL program, Plano, TX
"Landscape-Pastel," Jan
"Floral-Pastel," Feb

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Wednesday

Drawing and/or Painting Workshops and/or Demo


Monet's 'Water Lillies'

"Drawing Workshop or Demo"
(all dry media)"

Learning how to draw inspired by the works of the great masters is a time-honored tradition. Emerge with frameable works in all of the mediums--- graphite pencil, colored pencil, chalk pastel and oil pastel.

"Painting Workshop or Demo"(all wet media)
Learning how to paint inspired by the works of the great masters is a time-honored tradition. Choose genre, painters, scale, mediums.

Am I coming to your town? Request me: padillapost@gmail.com

Art Movements

Glossary of Popular Art Movements

An alphabetical listing of some of the more popular styles of painting and art movements surveyed in my painting and drawing from the masters clases and workshops:

Abstract Expressionism
American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized form and color within a nonrepresentational framework. Jackson Pollock initiated the revolutionary technique of splattering the paint directly on canvas to achieve the subconscious interpretation of the artist's inner vision of reality.

Barbizon School (Landscape Painting)
A group of 19th-century French painters who rejected idealized landscape painting and sought a more informal, realistic portrayal of nature. They were heavily influenced by 17th-century Dutch genre painting. Theodore Rousseau, one of the principal figures of the group, was a proponent of outdoor painting, based on direct observation of one's surroundings.

Baroque
European art and architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Giovanni Bernini, a major exponent of the style, believed in the union of the arts of architecture, painting, and sculpture to overwhelm the spectator with ornate and highly dramatized themes. Although the style originated in Rome as the instrument of the Church, it spread throughout Europe in such monumental creations as the Palace of Versailles.

Black or African-American Art
The work of American artists of African descent produced in various styles characterized by a mood of protest and a search for identity and historical roots.

Classicism
A form of art derived from the study of Greek and Roman styles characterized by harmony, balance, and serenity. In contrast, the Romantic Movement gave free rein to the artist's imagination and to the love of the exotic.

Cubism
Early 20th-century French movement marked by a revolutionary departure from representational art. Pablo Picasso and Georges Bracque penetrated the surface of objects, stressing basic abstract geometric forms that presented the object from many angles simultaneously.

Dada
A product of the turbulent and cynical post-World War I period, this anti-art movement extolled the irrational, the absurd, the nihilistic, and the nonsensical. The reproduction of Mona Lisa adorned with a mustache is a famous example. The movement is regarded as a precursor of Surrealism. Some critics regard HAPPENINGS as a recent development of Dada. This movement incorporates environment and spectators as active and important ingredients in the production of random events.

Expressionism
A 20th-century European art movement that stresses the expression of emotion and the inner vision of the artist rather than the exact representation of nature. Distorted lines and shapes and exaggerated colors are used for emotional impact. Vincent Van Gogh is regarded as the precursor of this movement.

Fauvism
The name “wild beasts” was given to the group of early 20th-century French painters because their work was characterized by distortion and violent colors. Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault were leaders of this group.

Genre
This French word meaning “type” now refers to paintings that depict scenes of everyday life without any attempt at idealization. Genre paintings can be found in all ages, but the Dutch productions of peasant and tavern scenes are typical.

Impressionism
Late 19th-century French school dedicated to defining transitory visual impressions painted directly from nature, with light and color of primary importance. If the atmosphere changed, a totally different picture would emerge. It was not the object or event that counted but the visual impression as caught at a certain time of day under a certain light. Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro were leaders of the movement.

Mannerism
A mid-16th-century movement, Italian in origin, although El Greco was a major practitioner of the style. The human figure, distorted and elongated, was the most frequent subject.

Neoclassicism
An 18th-century reaction to the excesses of Baroque and Rococo, this European art movement tried to recreate the art of Greece and Rome by imitating the ancient classics both in style and subject matter.

Neoimpressionism
A school of painting associated with George Seurat and his followers in late 19th-century France that sought to make Impressionism more precise and formal. They employed a technique of juxtaposing dots of primary colors to achieve brighter secondary colors, with the mixture left to the eye to complete (pointillism).

Op Art
The 1960s movement known as Optical Painting is characterized by geometrical forms that create an optical illusion in which the eye is required to blend the colors at a certain distance.

Pop Art
In this return to representational art, the artist returns to the world of tangible objects in a reaction against abstraction. Materials are drawn from the everyday world of popular culture—comic strips, canned goods, and science fiction.

Realism
A development in mid-19th-century France lead by Gustave Courbet. Its aim was to depict the customs, ideas, and appearances of the time using scenes from everyday life.

Rococo
A French style of interior decoration developed during the reign of Louis XV consisting mainly of asymmetrical arrangements of curves in paneling, porcelain, and gold and silver objects. The characteristics of ornate curves, prettiness, and gaiety can also be found in the painting and sculpture of the period.

Romanticism
Romanticists used art to glorify nature and express themselves with emotion and intuition. They showed intense emotion to be a source of new knowledge and emphasized such sensations as freedom, fear, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature. In doing so they promoted patriotism, the adoration of the senses over reason and intellect, and artist as a divine creator. Painters like Turner and Constable made the status of landscape painting monumental by giving heroic overtones to natural scenes. As a result, man and nature were seen to be touched by a divine, supernatural force.

Surrealism
A further development of Collage, Cubism, and Dada, this 20th-century movement stresses the weird, the fantastic, and the dreamworld of the subconscious.

Symbolism
As part of a general European movement in the latter part of the 19th century, it was closely allied with Symbolism in literature. It marked a turning away from painting by observation to transforming fact into a symbol of inner experience. Gauguin was an early practitioner.

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