Charlie Steg's Online Abstract Painting Workshop

Lakewood NJ

18 April, 2022

4:11 AM

Description

Have you ever wondered how to improve your painting style and paint fresher paintings? If the answer to this question is YES, then the Abstract Painting Workshop with Charlie Steg is for you. During this course, Charlie Steg will teach you different painting techniques as well as explain the importance of building your paintings on a firm foundation of shape, value, color, and edges. This workshop is not media-specific. Charlie Steg welcomes anyone who uses watercolors, acrylic, pastels, oil or mixed media. Having grown up in an environment rich with colours, Charlie Steg' paintings, often abstract, represent vision and emotion with vibrant colour and texture. Generally, subjects are studied and depicted through collage and oil paints, but they are sometimes depicted in mono-prints or pastels as well. Charlie Steg is a professional artist educator, which means he has extensive training in different art mediums. Throughout his career, he has made numerous exhibitions of his artistic collections nationally and internationally, evolving into an increasingly introspective and abstract form of expression. Charlie has a series of online courses that are the next best thing to attending a live workshop. You can find out more about those courses by Clicking this Button. Who is this abstract painting course for? Charlie Steg has created this course so that anyone interested in art and abstract painting can take it. It can also be especially useful for students of the humanities or even history. As it is an introductory course, it is not necessary to have prior knowledge of the topics to be covered. The only thing you will need is to have a computer with a stable Internet connection to be able to access all the course content online. What will you learn in the Abstract Painting Workshop with Charlie Steg? Taught by New Jersey artist Charlie Steg, the course lasts 8 weeks and requires an estimated 27 hours of study. As it is an online course, you can do it at your own pace and reset the deadlines based on your schedule. You can choose to participate in the study exercises, for which you are invited to post images of your own paintings in the discussion forums, or complete the course through its quizzes and written evaluations only. With this course you will learn the keys to creating your most personal plastic expression, regardless of the external motif. You will work with the visual language, the elements of the composition, the graphic resources and you will experiment with very varied materials, techniques and textures. You will also study the most important artists of abstraction. With this course you will learn to: Master the main technical keys for the practice of abstract painting.Manage mixed techniques and material resources of all kinds: from the most classic (acrylic, oil, pastel, wax) to washes, drags, textures, collage, etc.Organize the composition of the elements of a painting, apart from figuration, establishing relationships based on shape, size, color, movement and location.Work with very varied methods, such as glazes, fillings, reserves, etc.Know the contributions that the main artists and movements have made in the field of abstraction.