3-Day Painting from Life with Max Ginsburg (May 2019)
DATES - Friday, May 24 - Sunday, May 26, 2019
TIMES - 9AM-4PM
PRICE - $925
Observe and paint the unique forms of the person posing with respect to proportions, shapes, values and color. Develop oil painting skills to achieve a high degree of naturalism
DAY 1. Paint Head Studies and Figure Studies from Life, concentrating on gesture & proportion.
DAY 2. Paint a Figure from Life, Development and Composition.
DAY 3. Paint a Portrait
Ginsburg will be assisting and critiquing each student's painting daily and he will be giving short painting demonstrations as a teaching tool each day. However, the students will paint and develop their own work during the bulk of each session.
We will focus on "Painting From Life" in the traditional realist manner of the Old Masters. The approach will be alla prima, or direct wet on wet oil painting; first blocking in the larger forms or shapes, then blocking in the smaller forms and details.
About Max
Ginsburg's paintings are in many museums and private collections including The Butler Institute of American Art, The New Britain Museum, The Society of Illustrators Museum, The Salmagundi Club, The Art Renewal Center, The Martin Luther King Labor Center 1199, and other public institutions.
He exhibited his fine art since 1953 but from 1980 - 2004 he painted illustrations commissioned by the major publishing companies. Ginsburg taught art for over 50 years:
1960 - 1982 at The High School of Art & Design (NYC).
1984 - 2004 at The School of Visual Arts (NYC).
2008 - to the Present at The Art Students League of N.Y.
He has given many workshops around the U.S. and abroad. In 2011 he published his book "Max Ginsburg - Retrospective". Over the years he exhibited and received many awards.
Most recent Awards & Exhibitions:
2018 - Solo Exhibition , Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
2017 - Solo Exhibition, FEI Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
2017 - Solo Exhibition, Florence Academy Of Art, U.S.
2016 - Solo Exhibition, Highline Loft Gallery, NYC
2015 - The William Draper Grand Prize at The Portrait Society of America Competition
2014 - Solo Exhibition, ArtRage Gallery in Syracuse, NY
2013 - Gold Medal Award, California Art Club, CA
2011 - Best In Show at The Art Renewal Center, International Salon Competition
2011 - Retrospective Solo Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2011 - Retrospective Solo Exhibition, The Salmagundi Club, New York, N.Y.
