Workshop Information
All too often, we rely on our images or nature to create our composition for us. We don’t spend enough time planning, but want to get started painting or drawing. Then, after hours invested in our work, the image that we have created doesn’t effectively communicate our vision.
The composition of our work is what makes our work interesting and effective. The viewer’s attention is held and wanders through our work, rather than to something else. Composition is more than just structure — it includes values, shapes, space, movement, dominance, edges, color, texture, unity, variation, etc. All need to be considered before one starts painting. Otherwise, success is more a happy accident. With planning, we know where we are going and we are intentional about what we are doing.
In her demonstration, Kathy will provide an overview of the elements of composition, with some illustrations.
In the workshop, attendees will use with their own completed paintings, and their own still life set up, to explore the elements of composition. Our objective will be to provide everyone with the tools to enhance their planning in the future and to evaluate their work. Kathy will also share ideas about what to include in a checklist to use to evaluate one’s work both before and after painting. You might even be motivated to rework that prior painting, with much greater success!
Cost: Members: $50, Non-Members: $65
Materials for Workshop:
Students will use drawing paper, pencils and their preferred media. They are asked to have several of their more successful paintings, as well as ones they want to improve upon, and the related references. They will also need to have 3-7 objects to use in a still life set up and a light source.
Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7409862189
Directions for Zoom or FB Live here.
About the Artist
Kathy Durdin
Kathy Durdin is a national award winning watercolor and mixed media artist. She has exhibited across Florida, as well as nationally, from New York to California. She is a signature member of numerous national watercolor societies, including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Southern and Watercolor West, a leading transparent watercolor society. She has won numerous awards at exhibits at these societies.
Kathy has also served as president of Florida Watercolor Society in 2012, and since then has been its Director of Operations. She has been on President of Tampa Regional Artists from 2007 to 2010 and 2012 to the present. She is on the board of Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts. She is also one of the founders of the Doodad Repurposed Sculpture Competition. Now in its ninth year, it is the only three-dimensional art competition for students grades K-12 in Hillsborough County.
Kathy has a Bachelor in Business Administration from the College of William and Mary, and worked for years as a management consultant and later as a leadership development consultant and coach. She is a CPA in Florida and Virginia and an Associate Certified Coach.
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