October 25–26, 2025
10am–4pm
Adult Workshops
Adult Fall 2025

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Contre-Jour Painting Workshop
w/Scott Noel
October 25 & 26
10:00 am – 4:00 pm




The two-day workshop will explore the problem of depicting the meeting of indoor and outdoor light. A figure will pose on successive days in one of the center’s classrooms framed by a window view. On the first day, we will do two (or more) small paintings on oil paper or museum board to vigorously achieve the silhouette energy released in the meeting of two lights of different color and degree.
On the second day, the workshop will stretch out on a slightly larger image for an all-day picture. Part of the interest of this day’s study is to develop the detail and incident within the governing fields of light and shadow. The hope is to gain insight into how all light-based images generate structures more suggestive of spaces than things.
Workshop Supply List
A selection of brushes, especially 2-inch chip brushes
A generous mixing surface, at least 16 by 20 inches, preferably glass.
A large palette knife