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Creative Painting with Afsaneh Michaels_ November 5 to December 17 _ Tuesdays 9:30-12:30 _

Creative Painting- The natural world and beyond

with Afsaneh Michaels

 November 5 – December 17 , 2024 (seven weeks)

Tuesday 9:30-12:30 pm Studio 1

In this seven-week course you learn or continue to paint nature separately or within the context of a still life. You will learn how to compose paintings with elements of your choice rather than a given image or paint an already composed image. You might work from sketches, photographs or still life to bring your ideas together. Emphasis is placed on working with your own ideas by understanding your style, use of color and applying your skills to paint authentic paintings that express your own aesthetic.

You will learn about form, line weight, shading, composition and the overall handling of the picture space and make lively, interesting and beautiful paintings. A variety of color mediums including acrylics, oils, or water soluble oil colors can be used on paper as well as on canvas or board.

Watercolorists: Please join if you already know your medium.  Beginner watercolorists are encouraged to learn the craft first and join my class as intermediate or advanced students. Those who have started this class with me with watercolor may continue.

Come with your existing setup with colors, brushes, pencils, and other tools plus your sketchbook or canvas. The first class will include a discussion of materials and supports (canvas, paper or boards). For questions please email the instructor.

Instructor: Afsaneh Michaels,  AfsanehAm@gmail.com

November 5 – December 17, 2024

Tuesdays: 9:30-12:30

Cost: $205.00 residents, non-residents $225.00

Place:  Studio 1

Number of Students: 15

Materials: Your medium of choice and setup plus your sketchbook and a canvas or a support of your choice. For more information email the instructor

 

Afsaneh Michaels, Instructor

Afsaneh A. Michaels is San Francisco Bay Area fine artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher with over 30 years of creative experience.Afsaneh was raised from an early age in Europe and the U.S. She studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000. After Edinburgh, Afsaneh over to Florence Italy where she studded drawing and painting. She has exhibited work in galleries around the Bay Area, and the east coast.In the early part of her career Afsaneh worked as an urban and country planner with the United Nations in Africa in Kenya and Malawi and later transitioned into art and exhibit design and worked at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi where she designed an exhibit for anthropologist, Richard Leakey. Later she worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Designing exhibits and collaborating with colleagues in various International museums.Afsaneh has always been an artist and after Edinburgh she moved to Florence in Italy where she started teaching small groups of adults and children in painting and drawing. Afsaneh loves to teach and uses a coaching style- mentoring each individual, guiding and developing their vision and direction while building foundational skills towards the student’s art practice. www.AfsanehMichaelStudio.com