Cheri Christensen Workshop
Painting Animals
DATE: September 14 - 17, 2012
COST: $625
SKILL LEVEL: All levels
This workshop will focus on creating a painting with the relative use of color, value, temperature and intensity. The first part of the class will focus on working with a still life, reemphasizing painting fundamentals while learning how to paint from life. After spending some time with still lifes, students will move forward to work from their own reference materials, using skills developed from the previous lessons while emphasizing composition and individual expression. Time will be spent discussing individual’s choice of subject, light, composition, and edges to maximize the individuality in artistic expression.
Students may choose any subject matter they wish, farm animals, domestic or wild animals.
During the class, Cheri will demonstrate painting techniques using both brushes and palette knives, expanding the student’s painting vocabulary.
The class will take a short field trip to practice the photography skills necessary to produce useable reference material. Students are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras and their own photographs to use.
Experience is not mandatory, but a good attitude, willingness to learn, and a sense of humor are.
Cheri Christensen's Bio
http://cherichristensen.com/
Cheri Christensen was born in Enumclaw, Washington, a small rural town of horse and cattle ranches and dairies at the foot of Mt. Rainier. She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated from the University of Washington.
Cheri studied oil painting intensely for three years with Ron Lukas, a protege of Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of the Russian Impressionists. In her studies, Cheri concentrated on seeing and conveying the effects of color and light on forms.
The first painting she submitted to a competition was included in a prestigious exhibition at the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and the first painting to include animals received the Beatrice Jackson Memorial award for Best Traditional Landscape in the Allied Artists of America 1995 show. Currently, Cheri is represented at galleries around the country, such as Howard/Mandville Gallery and Roby King Gallery in Washington, Eisenhauer Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard, and McLarry Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe.
Cheri has recently been featured in magazines such as “American Art Collector” and “Western Art Collector,” and will be profiled April 2012 in “Southwest Art” magazine. She can also be found demonstrating her painting techniques in the Liliedahl Video Production “Straight Ahead, a palette knife demonstration in oil.”
