{"id":89,"date":"2017-11-16T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:53:00","slug":"composition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/seminars\/composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Composition Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mini-nav\">\n<p><!-- add the text class=active between ><a and the href=... for current page only... remove it from other hrefs, if it exists (use preview to check) --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"active\" href=\"\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/courses\/composition\/\">Seminar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/courses\/composition\/composition-endorsements\/\">Endorsements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/reviews\/composition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book Recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"frame-it\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In-person seminars suspended until further notice. <\/span>See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marshallart.com\/SHOP\/\">my shop<\/a> for videos and webinars.<\/div>\n<p>This seminar and workshop will help you use composition to evoke feeling through your work. I give a series of lectures on the few principles behind all artistic forms and how the great masters have used them to create masterpieces in varying styles. The sessions are creatively invigorating (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/courses\/composition\/composition-endorsements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read the comments!<\/a>) so come prepared to learn.<\/p>\n<p>This course meets for multiple\u00a0<em>in-person<\/em> sessions. If you want to study with me online, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/marshallart.com\/SHOP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PRODUCTS<\/a> menu.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>SESSIONS &amp; TOPICS<\/h4>\n<p><b>Session 1:\u00a0<\/b> The Role of Composition;\u00a0Abstraction &amp; Feeling; Metaphor; Consonance<br \/>\n<b>Session 2:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Balance; Dominance;\u00a0Light &amp; Dark Massing; Contrast<br \/>\n<b>Session 3:\u00a0<\/b> Continuity; Rhythm &amp; Pattern;\u00a0Transition &amp; Counterchange<\/p>\n<p>One of the most baffling problems for students of creativity is how to make decisions while painting \u2014 whether to make something lighter or darker or bigger or smaller or brighter or duller. These are the problems of composition, problems that did not bother any of us when we were children \u2014 we composed instinctively. Great artists also compose instinctively, but not as children, rather as grown-ups who are able to get their vision into pictures with grown-up wisdom and skill.<\/p>\n<p>This course is designed to open your eyes to how pictures are \u201clittle worlds\u201d that reflect your tastes and sensibilities. I will teach you how the great masters of the past learned from nature, learned from other masters, and grew in their skills until they could turn their feelings into forms that emotionally move their viewers.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who took my <i>Drawing from the Masters<\/i> classes where we studied the paintings of great masters, this is the same material boiled down into a crash-course. This material can be a major mind-shift for some people. Be ready \u2014 you will learn.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Materials:<\/h5>\n<p>Bring a sketchpad and a mechanical pencil or pen or some other non-messy point media. No charcoal or dusty media or anything that leaves shavings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Note:<\/h5>\n<p>This is not a university curriculum course and you will not receive college credit for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminar Endorsements Book Recommendations This seminar and workshop will help you use composition to evoke feeling through your work. 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