September Session/Umbrian landscape with handmade paints workshop based in Monte Castello di Vibio September please email for more info macgillis@gmail.com

Intense 10 day seminar painting the landscape in Montecastello di Vibio an Umbrian hamlet
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Le Pittrici III
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In this ONLINE class, we will focus on the brilliant paintings of four female Italian painters, investigating what makes them so appealing. Using transcription, we will draw from these paintings without copying them, searching for rhythm, duality, and repetition within the geometry of these compositions. Along with studying the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, Virginia Vezzi, Orsola Maddalena Caccia, and Lavinia Fontana, we will discuss other painters working in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, as well as contemporary female painters.

LIMONI IV
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In this intensive ONLINE painting class, we'll create our own oil paint from Italian pigments. Once we've created our full earth color palette, we'll prepare gradient studies in order to better understand the colors we are working with. Next, we'll sketch a composition of lemons in our respective studios. Finally, we'll create a still life of lemons. Each of the three days will include group discussions based on the images uploaded by the participants, guided by Lucy MacGillis. Lectures on the color yellow in painting, the lemon in the history of painting and demos from MacGillis' studio in Italy will also be included. We will discuss our paintings of lemons in group discussions/critiques over zoom.
Prior to the class, participants will receive a kit from Zecchi in Florence containing Fabriano oil painting paper, the pigments of the earth palette, walnut oil, and a palette knife.

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