About the Workshop
We will paint each day from the live model. Students will create a basic palette from direct observation of the model, using oil paint and working on either canvas or panel (your choice). Students will receive individual instruction as they develop two figurative paintings over the course of the week. We will emphasize the basic forms of the figure in space as well as color, value, and light and shadow.
All students should arrive with two pre-tinted (and dry) canvases or panels, which will provide a ready-made ground upon which to build their paintings.
Refer to the Materials List for those materials students should bring to the workshop.
Workshop-Materials-List-Forrest-Williams.pdfAbout the Instructor
Forrest Williams is a figurative painter who has shown his work in San Francisco, New York, Portland, Montreal, and for numerous summers at Provincetown's AMP gallery. This summer he will be showing at Schoolhouse Gallery. He was an English major undergrad at Davidson College and received his MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art. He now lives and works in both New York City and Provincetown. This is his sixth summer teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center.
