GROUP CRITIQUE
Professional Critique of your work.
GROUP CRITIQUE
(Limit 12) $40
One of the best ways for personal artistic growth is a professional critique in a group setting. Todd will identify:
(1) Whats working in your painting and why.
(2) Whats not working and why.
(3) How to fix whats not working.
Because painting is visual problem solving, a group setting provides a unique environment that enables you to observe ten or more solutions of ten or more visual problems from other students. In other words, you will speed up the learning process by learning to crack the codes to multiple painting issues that you will likely have in a future painting.
This is an excellent venue to exercise your understanding of the visual language of picture making through the critique process. We discuss each work through the academic lense of the "SEVEN ELEMENTS of PICTURE MAKING" checklist (See below). Our master forefathers used this criteria to better understand; Drawing, Design, Value, Color, Shape, Hierarchy and Unity. By developing your undertanding of these elemnts, you will therby better understand how to crack the codes to improve your paintings.
Call Todd to register (603) 819-9100
or email Todd: [email protected]
(Limit 12) $40
One of the best ways for personal artistic growth is a professional critique in a group setting. Todd will identify:
(1) Whats working in your painting and why.
(2) Whats not working and why.
(3) How to fix whats not working.
Because painting is visual problem solving, a group setting provides a unique environment that enables you to observe ten or more solutions of ten or more visual problems from other students. In other words, you will speed up the learning process by learning to crack the codes to multiple painting issues that you will likely have in a future painting.
This is an excellent venue to exercise your understanding of the visual language of picture making through the critique process. We discuss each work through the academic lense of the "SEVEN ELEMENTS of PICTURE MAKING" checklist (See below). Our master forefathers used this criteria to better understand; Drawing, Design, Value, Color, Shape, Hierarchy and Unity. By developing your undertanding of these elemnts, you will therby better understand how to crack the codes to improve your paintings.
Call Todd to register (603) 819-9100
or email Todd: [email protected]
* CRITIQUE SANDWICH: a simple idea that examines your painting in three parts; What works, what's not working and how to fix it....therefore, we look at it as having a top, a middle and a bottom....sort of like a sandwich.
The Top: represents what works in your painting.
If you give a monkey a paintbrush, he will eventually make something that looks good. For this reason, its important to point out what is working so that in the unlikely event you did it by accident, after pointing it out, you can now repeat it in a future painting and paint with intent rather than by accident.
The Middle: Represents whats not working.
After we have softened you up with the positive affirmation of telling you what works, its time to stab you in the back and unleash the horror of whats not working...LOL...We will tell you what is not working in the painting and why.
The Bottom: Represents how to fix whats not working.
Finally, we will give you a concrete suggesting as to how to fix whats not working. We do not speak in sound bites and leave you hanging....Rather, we will give you a direct and articulate solution so you completely understand and therefor are completely in control of your painting.
* 7 ELEMENTS of PICTURE MAKING: The seven important elements to consider and compose in order to create a balanced picture. They are Design / composition, Values, Line, Shape, Color, Hierarchy, Unity.
