Tuesday through Friday
10:00AM - 4:00PM
$795.00
Instructor: Jill Douglas
Join Jill Douglas, long-time BAC instructor and expert artist, for this special in-person open studio retreat. Jill will lead this winter program while visiting the L.A. area in January, providing a rare opportunity for students to work in-person under her special guidance.
Each day explores a different subject and prompt so that students can delve into a variety of topics. Students are also welcome and encouraged to bring their personal work to share with Jill and their peers for feedback and critique. Halfway through the day, the group will come together during lunch for a constructive group critique, as there is so much to learn from each others’ creative work. Students work in a medium of choice including oils, acrylics or watercolors; oil or chalk pastels; as well as colored pencils.
Program Schedule includes:
Daily light breakfast
Daily lunchtime discussion / critique
(Students provide their own bag lunch)
Tuesday
Creating a Landscape using Atmospheric Perspective
Understand how to create depth and a sense of perspective in your painting through color. Jill will have a choice of images to work from or students may bring their own existing painting, a printed image or a tablet to work from a screen.
Wednesday
The Art of Abstraction & Simplification
How to edit your image to ‘say the most with the least’. The keys here are a harmonious palette, contrast and the all-important composition.
Thursday
Setting up a Still Life to Paint
Jill will discuss and demonstrate the essential elements that should be considered when setting up a still life to paint or draw from. Topics will include lighting, where best to set up and how to arrange your objects to create a balanced composition. Objects will be available to choose from or students may want to bring in their own.
Friday
A day to finish up or return to a subject from another day, Jill will have individual assignments for those who would like, based on their individual needs.
Friday Closing Luncheon
Location: This is an in-person class taking place at the new BAC campus located in Santa Monica at
1625 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA. LINK TO MAP.
Transportation and Parking: Centrally located for easy access from all over Los Angeles County, BAC is only a 5-minute walk from the E Line (Expo) Metro Rail station exit off of 17th/SMC. The Center has a small parking lot located right in front of the buildings entrance. If parking is unavailable in the lot there is 2, 3 and 9-hour metered street parking in the area.