Pam Ingalls Workshop
Still Life & Portrait
DATE: May 16 - 20, 2012
COST: $510
SKILL LEVEL: All levels
Learn to paint from life in the Russian Impressionist's tradition. The class is set up to take each student at their own level through the basics of oil painting - exploring value, color temperature, intensity and edges with still lifes and portraits. We will examine the light on simple subject matter, and discuss the importance of allowing one’s choice of subject matter to come from within. Please arrange your schedule so that you can arrive early enough on Wednesday watch the evening painting demonstration, with plenty of time for questions afterwards. The demo will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the school. Thursday through Sunday will be an immersion into painting “liquid light.”
Starts on Wednesday May 16th: 6:00pm – 8.30pm
Thurs May 17th – Sun May 20th: 10:00am – 5:00pm
“I love to enter into the atmosphere of what I’m painting. When I meet a person, walk into a room, or even pick up an orange, I have a feeling about them. There’s an essence that belongs to just that moment. I get to be with that feeling as I translate it into the poetry of paint.”
Pam Ingall's Bio
Ingalls' education in art began early. She first studied with her father, Richard Ingalls, who created the Art Department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. She continued at the Accademia Delle Belle Arte in Florence, Italy in 1977, then returned home to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree from Gonzaga in 1979.
She later worked with Frederick Frank in New York and subsequently studied oil painting under Ron Lukas in Seattle. More recently she has studied with Richard Schmid and Burt Silverman.
Strong color and sound drawing are primary in her paintings. Her choice of simple subject matter is surprising, sometimes humorous, and always full of emotion. Portraits, still lifes and interior scenes populate her studio.
A table with chairs, a diner counter top, rubber boots standing by a kitchen door, even a bowl of cherries - all evoke a sense of humanity and presence, as if someone is either about to enter the frame or has just left it.
Pam has exhibited in over 125 national and international juried art shows, where she's won more than 60 prizes. Her work has exhibited in 28 states, and is in collections in numerous countries.
