This is one of my sketches from a Van Gogh Sunflowers session.
"Sunflowers ?? !! ?? ", I hear you exclaim!
Here is the sketch and the original Van Gogh.
Aha! Hopefully you are saying "aha!" about now.
Can you see that it is an abstract version of the painting? All good painting and drawing is based on abstraction. Our brain interprets the world via abstractions.
So this is a compositional sketch. I am looking for:
The video is played by Nahre Sol (Alice Gi-Young Hwang), a young pianist and composer. She likes to combine improvisation with traditional Western form and harmony. She completed her undergraduate studies in 2013 at The Juilliard School and did further composition study in Paris. www.nahresol.com
What are are the benefits of learning the structured, repertoire based Inglis Art Method?
It's fun!
Movement literacy enables emotional expression and communication!
The method draws on a wide variety of disciplines, including dance, music performance and learning, psychology, meditation, martial arts, time and motion study... and more.
Complex activities such as art, music and dance contain a hierarchy of skills.
By completing paintings with my method you will be systematically developing all of these capabilities:
Develop their painting ability
Explore their art tastes
Develop their creativity
Literacy in the language of visual communication
Thinking abstractly
Creativity via Process
Achieving Focus
Entering the Flow State
Creative Visualisation
Abstract thinking
Right Brain mode (Switching in and out)
Relaxation
Coordination
Proprioceptive Perception (where is your body?)
Kineasthetic Perception (where are you moving?)
Synaesthetic Perception (sound and colour)
Count 'em!
Here are just some of the technical art skills you will practice in these sessions:
Sketching
Brush Techniques
Colour Mixing
Painting like a master
Understanding visual language
Learn to see in 6 dimensions!
Learning to see abstract patterns.
In this case a Monet's Japanese Bridge 1899, No.2, at the texture mapping stage.
We are all born with varying skills and abilities.
The good news is that, all of us being human, we share those skills and abilities, and can develop them to a large degree through training and practice.
In any population a particular skill will be distributed as shown in the standard "bell curve".
Artistic Talent is not just one thing, it's a network of skills including line, texture, form, colour, tone, composition. All of these skills are learnable. I include all of them under "Method".
Method: an efficient process which involves artistic skill sets
Technique: how you handle your equipment, based on coordination
Repertoire: your body of work
In each session at Inglis Academy we develop your method and technique by adding to your repertoire.
If you keep adding to the repertoire, who knows, you might be an artistic genius too! But not everybody has the time to develop into a genius and that's OK.
Taking any number of steps along that path is an immensely satisfying life experience!
