Painting a subject that is in flux –– a lemon tree as its fruit ripens, a person in motion, or a kitchen countertop crowded with objects that are moved around as they are used each day –– can open up our painting practice and our perceptions. With this approach we are finding a composition as we work over time. The relationships that we discover on the canvas can be unexpected, and more dynamic than if we had planned out everything in advance. Painting becomes a responsive, investigative process.

Each prerecorded, 2.5 hour session includes a slide lecture, demonstration and Q and A. The lecture series focuses on different ways that time has been depicted in historical and contemporary painting. For the demo, I walk through my entire process of creating a painting in this mode, working from an eggplant on my back patio as it grew and bore fruit. My forty-hour painting process has been edited down into four, hour-long videos during which we discuss different strategies for representing change, as well as nuts-and-bolts painting issues like color mixing, measuring, and value control.

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