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The New Mexico Art League
3407 Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
505-293-5034

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 16554
Albuquerque, NM 87191

Painting Flowers in the Still-Life
with Cynthia Rowland

2010 Five Day Workshops:

March 15 - 19

August 9 - 13

9:30 am - 4:30 pm
$375

New Mexico Art League Class Registration Form

You may register online and return here to pay securely on line, or mail your payment. If you pay online, please print your receipt for your records.

John Singer Sargent said . . . “If you want to practice painting the figure, paint a flower.” Cynthia has a systematic approach to painting flowers. Participants will be required to bring a still-life with fresh flowers to the workshop. Painting flowers before they die is the challenge a good still-life painter faces.

This workshop will cover the following techniques and principals:
Arranging the Flowers and Placement of the Subject
The Five Tone Values and Four Factors of Drawing
Seeing the Subject in Mass Tones
The Importance of Overlapping
Color in Light and Color in Shade
Lost and Found Edges
Rythum and Movement
Color and Complement in Practice
Choosing Colors for Backgrounds
Flowers Alla Prima

Cynthia Rowland graduated with a degree in Fine and Graphic Arts from Texas Tech University. Off to an exhilarating and jangling dozed years in New York City, she worked with corporations and developed her own graphic design business. In 1993, Cynthia returned to NM to pursue sculpture in the medium of cast bronze which included several large scale commissions including the Dennis Chavez Memorial on Civic Plaza. For the past nine years Cynthia’s consuming focus has been in oil painting concentrating on portraiture and still-life. Taking a contemporary approach, Cynthia has been exhibiting her still-life paintings in Santa Fe for three years with much success, has been in the Albuquerque Museum’s National Miniatures Show for the past 4 years and is represented by Giacobbe-Fritz in Santa Fe.