John Murray classes week of April

Next week please try a piece (painting /drawing/assemblage/construction/installation or phone videos) that make a statement about April/May...

see you next week, john.  

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
The Waste Land (1922)

Workers and farmers unite
You have nothing,to lose
But your chains
The world is to win
This is May Day! May!
Your armies are veining the earth!

Railways and highways have tied
Blood of farmland and town
And the chains
Speed wheat to machine
This is May Day! May!
The poor's armies veining the earth!

Hirers once fed by the harried
Cannot feed them their hire
Nor can chains
Hold the hungry in
This is May Day! May!
The poor are veining the earth!

Light lights in air blossoms red
Like nothing on earth
Now the chains
Drag graves to lie in
This is May Day! May!
The poor's armies are veining the earth!

March comrades in revolution
From hirer unchained
Till your gain
Be the freedom of all
The World's May Day! May!
May of the Freed of All the Earth! 

John Murray classes week of April 22, 2013

We will have a model all classes this week.

Try and use a new medium as well as painting and drawing.

The traditional nude has been worked too much (although sometimes with great success) so as a thinking artist try and push yourself past the familiar and enter new and dangerous territory...of course take the opportunity to draw while we have the model, but try assemblage, collageor printmaking.

Of course painting is encouraged!

See you next week, john.

John Murray classes week of April 15, 2013

No classes next week, but I'm having a workshop on Wednesday the 17th from 4:30-8:30 pm.
There will be a model and refreshments will be served (according to Claudia!).
Try and expand your materials into a new vision of plasticity...work with metal, fabric, plaster, wood as well  as canvas and paint. Think about it, please.
See you then, john.

John Murray classes week of April 8,2013

We will have a model all classes the week of April 25th. Also I am planning a workshop April 17 (the week of vacation)... it will run from 4:30-8:30 pm will have a model and will emphasis multi-media: collage/transfer/paint/assemblage and printmaking from a model. Registration is open now on this with Claudia in the office.

Next week let’s try a newspaper piece either paper mâché or transfer or collage with paint over. See you next week John