John Murray classes week of november 1, 2010

This week all painting classes please try a series of small canvases (approx. 12"x 12") using the acrylic paint mixtures we worked with last week.

Try a self portrait, a metaphor and landscape for instance.

Postmodern Assemblage:

Please bring a sheet of plastic and a gallon of acrylic gel. we will try a poured thick acrylic bas relief.

See you next week, john.

John Murray Classes week of Oct.25

Poured acrylic workshop.

If you want to work with a new way of using acrylic paint and medium i will work with you this week.

It requires some specific supplies; however.

1. At least a gallon of acrylic gel.

2. Acrylic paint tubes or jars of color.

3. 4-6 clean empty plastic buckets (with lids is preferable).

4. A stretched canvas and/or a sheet of 2 mil clear poly (drop cloth).

5. a few empty plastic squeeze bottles.

i would like to work with all classes on this and hope all will be able to participate.

Thank you, see you next week, john.

John Murray classes week of October 18 2010

All classes: work a political idea into a painting or assemblage.
Use newspaper articles and attempt to make the plastic material as important as the message. Francis Bacon did on this famous Papal assault. although dry in use of paint the energy and striated brush strokes make this a great painting. Get mad!
See you next week, john.

Supercharged Painting Wed Oct. 13

Work with a landscape reference, but discard the picturesque.

Using some of the brush stroke work you developed last week see how little of the actual landscape you can retain and still feel the sense of nature you began with.

If you have a sketch book use a drawing from that or go out and work or sketch around the New Art Center to start the painting.

See you on wednesday.

-john.

What happened to the brush stroke?

John Murray classes week of Oct. 4, 2010.

The evolution of the brushstroke from Manet to

Impressionism, the Fauvres, Modernism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Post-Modernism is something every artist should consider in their own struggle with their work. Let's try a piece (or pieces ) that explore the range and tools of mark-making.

All painting classes, please bring a few canvases and any implement that can be used to apply paint, in addition to brushes of all widths and degrees of stiffness and softness.

Post-Modern Assemblage, in our work what constitutes the brush stroke? is it 200,000 clear plastic straws, as is sometimes the case in Tara Donovan's work? Glue spots across a rusted steel plate? Folded pieces of packing cardboard and spray paint? Please give it some thought.

See you next week. john.

Artist's Identity

Demonstrate who you are.
Or think you could be.
All artists struggle with this issue,
so try a piece using any medium, from traditional
paint on canvas to found metal scraps and cardboard.
How complex are you?
What does this mean to your art and plastic expression?
Maybe you feel that the individuation concept is false, and life is about the specie...however you feel try and find a way to express and even illustrate your idea.
All John Murray classes week of Sept. 26, 2010

John Murray classes week of Sept 20, 2010

Monday Acrylic and Oil Workshop: we have a model... a female model, please bring paint, canvas and charcoal/fixative.

Monday (p.m.)Postmodern Assemblage: painters are allowed to paint in this class and i will work with you as well as experimental sculptors for whom the class was designed...please bring card board and plaster as well as paint to attempt a non-objective assemblage.

Wednesday Supercharged Painting (am): please bring paint and canvas to try a deconstructed painting of objects in the studio.

Wednesday (p.m.) Supercharged painting: we have a female model...please bring paint, charcoal and canvas.