Still Life:  Shapes, Color and Simplification

Explore and learn ways to create clarity and impact in your paintings with Anne Winthrop Cordin.  Students will work from a tablescape still life composed of a variety of items.  We will study and demystify relationships of shape and color by focusing on these elements:

How to edit and simplify a complicated tablescape.

Mixing “clean colors” and the power of grey.

Ways to strategically increase the excitement, drama and interest of a painting.

Through a variety of exercises, students will study value, chroma, edges and composition. There will also be special tips on how this class can improve your Plein Air painting!

Anne Winthrop Cordin

I am interested in altering the usual way of looking at ordinary things and paint allows this expression in a direct and satisfying way.

My art is about possibility and paradox, memories and emotion. I am excited about color and shape, by irony and mystery and by all of the questions that arise from the conception to completion of a painting. I am in love with the painting process.

My work is a timeline, storytelling where I’ve been and where I am now, connecting me with the collective art spirit of the past and of tomorrow. Art enriches all aspects of my life and my life fills me with gratitude and joy.