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WORKSHOP MICHAEL RYAN

“De Figuur in de Natuur-Geen Verschil”

5 tot 9 juni 2023
Landgoed Berkenrode, Heemstede, The Netherlands

Deze workshop zal gebaseerd zijn op hoe we de werkelijkheid waarnemen. Dat doen we met een lege geest. Een geest die vrij is van het verleden, vrij van hoe het “zou moeten zijn”, vrij van formules, volledig in het hier en nu. Alleen dan hebben we de mogelijkheid om de wereld voor ons voortdurend met gevoeligheid en opwinding te bekijken. Dus wanneer we creëren, wanneer we naar het onderwerp kijken, proberen we niet te kopiëren wat we zien, maar om wat we zien te vertalen in kleurrelaties op een tweedimensionaal oppervlak.

Tijdens onze workshop help ik je om licht en kleur te ZIEN en deze mooi en eerlijk op jouw oppervlak samen te stellen. We zullen ons concentreren op de figuur in het landschap om u te helpen af te breken en af te zien van de onnodige projectie van labels op het onderwerp. Dus geen “bomen”, “gras”, “lippen”, “bloemen”, “ogen” of “jurk”. We zullen leren zien wat er werkelijk voor ons is, kijken als jonge kinderen met weinig woordenschat en gekleurde vormen zien in relatie tot andere gekleurde vormen.

Voor degenen die niet zo bekend zijn met pastel zal ik het medium bespreken en zowel de mogelijkheden als de beperkingen laten zien.

De Amerikaanse schilder en leraar Charles Hawthorne (1872-1930) zei in zijn boek: “Hawthorne on Painting”:

“Heb de moed om de kleuren die je ziet vast te leggen. Als je buiten werkt, wordt je oog op kleur gebracht-het heeft het effect dat je de ketenen van je geest afschudt, je laat zien dat je alles kunt doen wat je wilt, waardoor je durft.”

Ik kijk uit naar onze workshop!

*Voor lijst van materialen en andere informatie email me op: blackbear8@planet.nl

WORKSHOP MICHAEL RYAN

“The Figure in Nature-No Difference”

5 – 9 June, 2023
Berkenrode Estate, Heemstede, The Netherlands

This workshop will be based on how we observe reality. We do that with an empty mind. A mind that is free of the past, free from how it “should be”,  free of formulas, completely in the here and now. Only then do we have the possibility to continually view the world before us with sensitivity and excitement. So when we are creating, when we are looking at the subject, we are not attempting to copy what we see but to translate what we see into color relationships on a two-dimensional surface.

During our workshop I will help you to SEE light and color and to compose it beautifully, honestly, on your surface. We will be focussing on the figure in the landscape to help you break down and dispense with the needless projection of labels onto the subject matter. So, no “trees”, “grass”, “lips”, “flowers”, “eyes” or ” legs”. We will learn to see what is actually there before us, to look as young children with little vocabulary and see colored forms in relationship with other colored forms.

For those not familiar with pastel I will discuss the medium and show it’s possibilities as well as it’s limitations.

The American painter and teacher Charles Hawthorne (1873-1938) said in his book “Hawthorne on Painting”:

“Have the courage to set down the colors you see. Working outdoors your eye will be brought up to color-it has the effect of shaking off the shackles of your mind, showing you that you can do anything you please, making you dare.”

I look forward to our workshop!

*For a list of materials and other information please email me at: blackbear8@planet.nl

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