Poetry is always a shape on the page. Whether it is a rectangular prose box, a series of couplets, or a continuous descent of lines of varying lengths, the effect is that we enter into the poem’s structure in much the same way we enter a room in a house. We take in the content […]
Know what to write but can’t get what’s on the page to pack the punch it did when it happened? Learn guidelines needed to best shape life experience through your writing. Discover how to harness genre to more effectively frame your narrative, hook readers at the opening, and deliver a powerful ending. We’ll explore real-life […]
Watercolor and pastel have long individual histories in visual art as media favored by artists to work through ideas with color in a more immediate/direct manner than oil, fresco, encaustic, egg tempera, and, more recently, acrylic media usually allow. Carl will review some of the individual characteristics of the two and then we will focus […]
A successful painting starts before paint is ever applied to the canvas, with a solid concept. We will look at this part of the process by exploring what other artists have chosen to paint and why. Students will then develop an oil painting from a selection of subject matter and composition through paint application. Tom […]