"WHAT IF...?" MAKING MEANINGFUL ART w/ CHRISTOPHER VOLPE
WHAT IF..?
MAKING MEANINGFUL ART.
w/ CHRISTOPHER VOLPE
8 Week painitng workshop
Todd Bonita Gallery. 39 Ceres St. Portsmouth, NH
April 07 - May 26, 2022. (1-4pm) Thursdays
$360 (Limit 12)
Register: (603) 819-9100 or tmbonita@gmail.com
(* You may also like: VOLPE'S ABSTRACTING THE LANDSCAPE Evening class).
WHAT IF…?
Using the Tools of Creativity-Innovation to Find Your Voice as a Painter
What if you have everything you need right now to create a life enhanced by making meaningful art? As a major tool for artists and innovators, “What if” questions spark new possibilities and new combinations of existing ideas. Want focus and authenticity? The key is starting small and working fast, perhaps not making masterpieces (at first!), but generating a platform for original work. In this workshop we will make numerous small paintings and several larger works that can become the basis for a uniform body of work. Starting with an initial idea personally meaningful to you and improvising from there, we will create multiple variations combining principles of design with intuition and experimentation. Any visual medium is acceptable; instructor will demo in oils, but technique is not this workshop’s primary focus. This is primarily about finding yourself as a creative individual and channeling that energy into compelling art that truly feels like yours.
REGISTER: Call Todd (603) 819-9100 or tmbonita@gmail.com
* Credit Card (Call)
* Pay Pal to Tmbonita@gmail.com
* Venmo @Todd-bonita
* Checks made out to "Todd Bonita" mail to my house: 28 McShane Ave, Greenland, NH 03840 (Write, "Volpe What If" in the memo)
* Cash for teachers pet.
MATERIALS:
Please bring your favorite colors and tools of artmaking*. You will also need:
• a medium-sized (e.g. 12” x 16”) pad of media-appropriate paper, such as oil, watercolor, pastel, multimedia, or canvas-paper (I use Arches 140lb oil paper)
• role of artist’s tape
• a stiff backing, such as a smooth piece of cardboard or foam-core, that you can tape your paper to,
• a notebook or a few sheets of paper and something to write with for brainstorming ideas and/or making quick sketches.
*A full materials list is available for beginners. More experienced painters should trust that their favorite materials will best serve – after all the goal is to find and be yourself.
PARKING:
(Feel free to drop your gear and hand-off at the gallery, park your car and walk over hands free).
* Metered parking available.
* Hanover St. Garage 2.5 blocks away.
MAKING MEANINGFUL ART.
w/ CHRISTOPHER VOLPE
8 Week painitng workshop
Todd Bonita Gallery. 39 Ceres St. Portsmouth, NH
April 07 - May 26, 2022. (1-4pm) Thursdays
$360 (Limit 12)
Register: (603) 819-9100 or tmbonita@gmail.com
(* You may also like: VOLPE'S ABSTRACTING THE LANDSCAPE Evening class).
WHAT IF…?
Using the Tools of Creativity-Innovation to Find Your Voice as a Painter
What if you have everything you need right now to create a life enhanced by making meaningful art? As a major tool for artists and innovators, “What if” questions spark new possibilities and new combinations of existing ideas. Want focus and authenticity? The key is starting small and working fast, perhaps not making masterpieces (at first!), but generating a platform for original work. In this workshop we will make numerous small paintings and several larger works that can become the basis for a uniform body of work. Starting with an initial idea personally meaningful to you and improvising from there, we will create multiple variations combining principles of design with intuition and experimentation. Any visual medium is acceptable; instructor will demo in oils, but technique is not this workshop’s primary focus. This is primarily about finding yourself as a creative individual and channeling that energy into compelling art that truly feels like yours.
REGISTER: Call Todd (603) 819-9100 or tmbonita@gmail.com
* Credit Card (Call)
* Pay Pal to Tmbonita@gmail.com
* Venmo @Todd-bonita
* Checks made out to "Todd Bonita" mail to my house: 28 McShane Ave, Greenland, NH 03840 (Write, "Volpe What If" in the memo)
* Cash for teachers pet.
MATERIALS:
Please bring your favorite colors and tools of artmaking*. You will also need:
• a medium-sized (e.g. 12” x 16”) pad of media-appropriate paper, such as oil, watercolor, pastel, multimedia, or canvas-paper (I use Arches 140lb oil paper)
• role of artist’s tape
• a stiff backing, such as a smooth piece of cardboard or foam-core, that you can tape your paper to,
• a notebook or a few sheets of paper and something to write with for brainstorming ideas and/or making quick sketches.
*A full materials list is available for beginners. More experienced painters should trust that their favorite materials will best serve – after all the goal is to find and be yourself.
PARKING:
(Feel free to drop your gear and hand-off at the gallery, park your car and walk over hands free).
* Metered parking available.
* Hanover St. Garage 2.5 blocks away.
CHRISTOPHER VOLPE
ChristopherVolpe.com
Art is just an attempt to create meaning, both in your own individual life and in the lives of the people you connect with. That’s something I’ve been trying to do as long as I can remember. What keeps me coming back to the easel is a perpetual unrest and an urge to be part of collective search for meaning and satisfaction. It’s the same impulse I had as a teacher of literature – an attempt to make some sense of what’s going on and figure out what’s important before we die.
The paintings I love and aspire to create turn the pain and confusion of being human into a kind of beauty that doesn’t deny the darkness or sugarcoat reality yet insists on a lyrical engagement, not just with the world around us, but with the deeper mysteries of the human heart.
Art is just an attempt to create meaning, both in your own individual life and in the lives of the people you connect with. That’s something I’ve been trying to do as long as I can remember. What keeps me coming back to the easel is a perpetual unrest and an urge to be part of collective search for meaning and satisfaction. It’s the same impulse I had as a teacher of literature – an attempt to make some sense of what’s going on and figure out what’s important before we die.
The paintings I love and aspire to create turn the pain and confusion of being human into a kind of beauty that doesn’t deny the darkness or sugarcoat reality yet insists on a lyrical engagement, not just with the world around us, but with the deeper mysteries of the human heart.