Class Description:

Botanical subjects give a painter every possible challenge to work with: color, pattern, transparency, volume, and texture.

This class will focus on painting flowers and other botanicals up-close in all their detailed glory. In this class, Elody Gyekis will show you how to approach these complexities using the “indirect” painting process: building up your painting by working in multiple transparent layers. These historical painting techniques allow the artist to focus on one problem at a time. We establish our drawing, value structure, temperature, surface colors and details all in separate stages. The final result will be luminous and highly refined. We will also learn about oils and mediums, how to prepare grounds on canvas and panel, and how to prepare your references. Oil paints are highly recommended for this class, but acrylics can be used instead if preferred. *Botanical Painting I is NOT required to sign up for this class. Botanical Painting I and Botanical Painting II contain separate methods and can be taken independently.
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Spring Session II Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for the next session of this class are as follows:

Week
Date
Time
Week 1:
3/22/2023
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 2:
3/29/2023
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 3:
4/12/2023
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 4:
4/19/2023
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 5:
4/26/2023
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 6:
5/03/2023
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET


  1. Before Class - Welcome & How to Prepare for Class

  2. Week 1 - Class Overview & Preparing Your Surfaces

  3. Week 2 - Drawing Our Reference & Indirect Painting – Layer 1 Underpainting (Value)

  4. Week 3 - Indirect Painting – Layer 2 (Temperature)

  5. Week 4 – Indirect Painting – Layer 3 (Local Color)

  6. Week 5 – Indirect Painting – Layer 4 (Details and Textures)

  • $270.00
  • Online
  • 6 Weeks
  • Beginner to Advanced

Meet Your Instructor

Elody Gyekis

Instructor

Elody Gyekis is a painter, animator, and sculptor who uses visual storytelling to reinvent traditional gender roles. Elody earned her MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2019 and her BFA in Painting and Ceramics from Penn State University in 2009. Her paintings have been exhibited in many solo and group shows in Pennsylvania and New York, and also across the USA, Central America, and Europe. She completed artist residencies in Sibiu, Romania in 2014, and Giverny, France in 2018. Elody has taught painting workshops in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. In addition to her fine art, she has been a community arts organizer of murals and other public art projects in Pennsylvania and beyond. Elody splits her time between living in Pennsylvania, Central America, and Brooklyn.

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