Anne Belov Workshop
Painting Fabric
DATE: April 14 - 15, 2012
COST: $235
SKILL LEVEL: All levels*
No, this is not a class on silk painting. Whether you are painting portraiture, still life, or interiors, depicting fabric in a painting can make or break your composition. Among the topics that will be discussed and attempted in class, are back lighting cloth versus front lighting, using folds in cloth to direct the eye, showing patterned cloth, and making cloth look "cloth-like" without it turning to mush (or granite). Discussions and demonstrations will round out this class. All mediums welcome, especially oil, watercolor, and acrylic. *Intermediate level suggested.
Anne Belov's Bio
http://sites.google.com/site/annebelovfineart/
Anne Belov has been painting and drawing for more than 25 years. She received her B.F.A. from Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington. Her work contains both still-life and landscape imagery, often within the same painting and she typically engages the viewer to participate in the creative process by painting the common place and familiar with a brilliant sense of light and color. Belov has stated that it is her objective "to create a sense of place and time through light, color, composition and the relationships between objects.
From the Artist
My work is concerned with both the depiction and examination of my surroundings. Over the years I have portrayed the places I have traveled, as well as my more immediate surroundings. I have worked in watercolor, acrylic, pencil, etchings, lithography, and monoprint media. Currently, my focus is oils on linen, as well as printmaking. Each of these different media has taught me things that then are brought to the other media that I have worked in. I don’t believe I can ever say that I will never work in this or that medium again, because you just never know. I make my decisions based on what that particular medium has to contribute to the image and concept that I am portraying.
My oil paintings are created on linen. The frames are designed and hand finished by the artist. Works of art in different scales allow the artist and the viewer to interact with them in different ways. A small painting is like a poem or a short story. It is one small glimpse into an artist’s vision.
