John Murray classes week of Jan. 31, 2011

Winter painting:

Mon. am Oil and Acrylic Workshop and Wed both sections of Supercharged painting...try a painting that deals with the Artic weather we've been suffering through.

Use any medium, any size and any mark-making ideas you have. Collage is a possibility as well as poured and brushed, charcoal and oil as well as acrylic gels of all types.

Monday pm Postmodern Assemblage: we will have a model again this week, anyone in wed. am Supercharged painting, where we've had no model, may come and work with model this week. This will be the last opportunity to paint from a model this term.

Sculptors in this class please bring plaster, twine, cardboard and paint

to work from the figure again this week. See you next week. john.

john murray classes week of jan. 24, 2011

All classes except Wed. am will have a model this week. i have been unable to find a model for wed mornings. If you really desire to work with a model and are in Wed. am class please feel free to swap time and day and come especially Mon pm which is a small class and could handle extra artists.
Postmodern Assemblage artists please come prepared to deal with a model on Mon.
Bring twine cardboard tape and plaster as well as acrylic paint and drawing pad and any other materials you feel you need to process a piece directly from the figure.
Thank you, see you next week. john.

John murray classes Wed. Jan. 19 and Mon. Jan 24

Happy New Year.
I have a model Wed. afternoon next week and also all day (both classes Mon. the 24th). I was unable to get a model for wed morning, so please be prepared to work from your sketchbook or imagination.
I will try to get a model for Wed. mornings.
See you next week. john.

John Murray Classes week of Dec.13, 2010

All classes:

This is the last week of the term, if you want to bring work for crit, please do.

Otherwise try a work based on the Winter Solstice, which is only a week away. Having the Sun at its lowest point on the horizon has always produced some strange human behavior (not the least of which is Christmas!). Try a painting, assemblage or sculpture that conveys the darkness of the days and nights this time of years or go in the opposite direction as the woman above did. See you next week, john.

John Murray Classes week of Dec.6, 2010

Identity: name and attitude:

try a few small (14"x20"?) paintings around your name, face or other identity ideas you have about yourself. Here are 2 of mine. One of the great things about making art is the opportunity it gives you to indulge and explore yourself in fresh and unique ways. Try different techniques:

transfer a photo of yourself, do a loose poured acrylic version of your name? See you next week. john.

John Murray classes week of Nov. 29, 2010

All classes:

Try a dead-pan holiday greeting-card painting or ironic decorative object.

Use the medium you're working in a

studied obvious way.

see you next week, john.

John Murray classes Monday Nov. 22

Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday classes only this week.
The NewArt Center is closed all day on wednesday.
Acrylic and Oil Workshop and Post Modern Assemblage:
try developing an image based on the Northeast American Indian. For instance, the Wampanoag people from their postmodern casinos back to Metacom and King Philips War to the tribal culture before European contact...
a tragic and fascinating history full of objects and carvings of great power.
see you Monday...john.