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Our main goal is to get more people into Painting for the joy of painting. Our exercises will help you find in this practice a sort of beneficial meditation which is capable of accelerating the mind and sharpening the sight.
Painting asks for no vanity or glamour - it's a language - it's practice should be demystified and brought down from it's fine art pedestal. If you follow these exercises and presentations, you will quickly acquire a more detailed visual perception, grow your intimacy with technique and bring a new joy into your life.
All can be completed in less then one hour, but feel free to take all the time you need and don't forget to join our community of practice in facebook and share your results!
A message from the Facilitator :
Hi! I am Felipe. I spent a large portion of my life drawing and painting. I was questing for my 10.000 hours to achieve so called Mastery - and as I closed in on my goal I realised that I loved painting but was not necessarily interested in being a graphic athlete. Nor did I want to spend my life surrounded by only other painters or illustrators.
I felt that the traditional way of approaching the training of visual artists, specially when it comes to drawing and painting representationally often missed the point. More often destroying the students desire to paint then equipping them to mindfully face visual challenges. I've heard the sentence "I used to paint but then I went to Art School" way too many times and decided to take action.
Painting and drawing is a way for a creator to engage simultaneously with the world and himself through seeing, feeling and moving the body. This practice involves emotional, physical and strategical intelligences simultaneously and is useful for all ages, professions and cultures. Any image created by someone from a place of truth and exploration will reveal as much about the observed object as the observer himself.
I set out to create a teaching methodology that would make stronger people and not only painters. Anyone who holds a brush long enough can learn how to paint anything at the surface level. But to really go beyond and accept that every image you paint is a window and a mirror, one must embark on a one way trip to find his or her own place in the syntax of the visual language as a whole. Images live in a place beyond words and sounds. They are nonlinear - a powerful painting is pure personality holography. It's a delicious place to be, but without the fuel, one will not get there, and the fuel is purpose. And purpose is personal.
7 years and 600 students later, I realize that my job is to help kindle tiny fires into large flames of creative desire. I care not if the end goal will be creating only paintings - but I promise you a journey of beauty and awe and you'll learn how to paint like only you can.
