October 14-17, 2024
We are rescheduling this workshop
Sumi.e Practice: Fall Still Life
taught by Nancy Klos
Workshop Description
DAY I
Our first day is a more technical one.
Sumi.e practice using ink, Chinese brushes, rice papers.
Brushwork and expression will be explored with
The various elements of the Fall Still Life:
Gourds, pinecones, pine branches, Fall foliage.
We will practice these individually to understand
The similarities and differences in brushstrokes
And build a visual vocabulary to design from.
(The studio remains open to students in the evening)
DAY II
FALL STILL LIFE
In the morning we will design and construct a
“Still life in the round” from which students can
decide how they wish to compose their longer projects.
We will practice this composition in the morning to
setup our projects for the rest of the afternoon.
From 1-3pm. Open Studio for Design!
3-4pm. Artwork sharing and discussion.
(The studio will remain open in the evening)
Please cleanup your space by 9pm.
Final day
Breakfast 8-9am.
Meet me at the Labyrinth for a special
Meditative Walk together before we depart…
(Final studio cleanup for Instructor Nancy Smith Klos)
About the Artist:
I have been painting and creating since I was very young.
My art studies in school and college were focused on traditional subjects:
Portraits, Still Life, Mixed Media, Art History.
For several years in the 1980’s I designed original knitwear.
This led me to additional studies at the Oregon College of Art & Craft
When I moved to Portland in 1987. There I focused on Surface Design
& French Pictorial Tapestry. For15 years I created tapestry commissions a
national clientele in liturgical, corporate & private collections.
In 2010 I began to paint outside on location “En Plein Air”
with wc., gouache and oil painting materials from two local Paint Houses
right here in Oregon: Gamblin Artists Colors & M. Graham Co.
I paint with oils on location in the PNW whenever possible! In winter I
return to water based materials in my home studio.
Over the years since 2010 I have traveled to the PACE Conventions &
had the pleasure of painting in beautiful locations in the western USA:
Monterrey, Ca….San Francisco, Ca….Denver, Co….Santa Fe, NM.
I will be painting in the Whidbey Island Plein Air event again this
summer. My family is in the Seattle area & I often paint on Bainbridge
Island, Wa.
Artists I admire: Vincent VanGogh, Paul Cezanne, Mark Rothko, Georgia
O’Keeffe, Kehinde Wiley, Robert Gamblin, Helen Frankenthaler, Mary
Cassatt, Yuming Zhu. I earned my BFA with my Professor of Art at
Connecticut College Barkley Hendricks. (Collected in The Yale Museum of
Art & The Smithsonian for African American Art).
