Date/Time: Saturday, March 21, 9AM – 12 PM at the Evelyn Hallman Park, then move to Clark Park Recreation Center from 12 PM-3 PM MST. $40 for TAG members, $50 for non-members. Not a member yet? Sign up for this event using the form at the bottom.
Speaker’s name: Russ Anderson
Speaker’s Website: https://rbaart.com
Bio: A 4th generation artist, Russ realized his love of art at an early age, painting beside my mother in Taos and Santa Fe from the age of five. Growing up in New Mexico during the creative cultural history of the 60s, he worked for a family Paint, Art and Framing business matching paint colors for customers giving him a strong sense of Color Theory.
Art Instructor, City of Tempe 2022 – Present, Instructor at Pyle Recreation Center teaching Oil/Acrylic and watercolor each week,
Art Instructor, ASU Emeritus Collage 2024 – Present teaching Drawing and Watercolor.
Professional Artist and Author, RB Anderson Studios Feb 2000 – Present, Fine art studio offering original and fine art portrait, pet portrait commissions giclee prints.
Description of presentation:
Seeing from the Artist Within is to view the world with a heightened sense of awareness and appreciation.
Meeting at Evelyn Hallman Park, then moving to the Clark Park Recreation Center, workshop participants will learn to include the fundamentals of art into the process of seeing. Participants will be asked to include all of their senses with physical sight, allowing a new perception and understanding. This is called multimodal perception, the brain’s process of combining information from multiple senses in a unified, richer, and more accurate understanding of the world around them.
Russ will speak about utilizing visual language along with shape, value, color theory, contour, and perspective to create the impression of depth on the flat surface of your paper or canvas.
Finally, we will discuss a few helpful techniques for plein air painting and take this new way of seeing outside to create a sketch and/or painting(s).
Supplies:
Sketch Pad and Pens, Sketch Board, or Traveling Easel, Folding chair if needed or Blanket, – Watercolor, Gouache, or Acrylic medium of choice (no oil paint) containers for water. Bottle of water, Picnic lunch or snack, drink. Tip: Keep paint supplies simple (limited to basic color palette).
Light&Shadow Plein Air by Russ Anderson
Plein Air Double Springs by Russ Anderson