Still Life Plus with Jill Banks

Description

Drench Your Canvases in Color with Jill Banks! Still life provides a great tool to hone skills. Students of all levels are welcome. Beginners will learn the fundamentals including laying in lights/darks (grisaille), color, materials and form. More advanced students will apply skills to increasingly complex subject matter (metals, textures, water, flowers), refine color and produce finished paintings, learn to see as artists, simplify forms into abstract shapes and how to construct compelling compositions. Continuing students interested in working in other representational (vs. abstract) genres: maritime, landscape, portrait, animal art, etc. are also welcome to this class -- but they will need to supply their own copyright free source material -- photos or field studies. Please communicate those project ideas to Jill via email at: jill@jillbanks.com at least one week prior to the beginning of class.  Information about the instructor can be found at www.jillbanks.com or Facebook (@Jill Banks Studio) or Instagram (@jillbanks1). First day of class includes a demo from 10:00am to 11am (Note: extended, earlier time on Tuesday, February 10 only). Students will then setup to paint following the demo for the remainder of that class day. Instructor Bio: Highlights of Jill’s 20+-year art journey include her 100 Faces in 100 Days Project in 2011 and many awards. Recently she won Best of Show in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society 2025 Associate Online Exhibit, the Winner’s Circle Award in Paint Great Falls 2025 and Best of Show in the American Impressionist Society’s 2024 Associate Online Exhibit. Her work has been featured in American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, PleinAir, Modern Impressionist, élan and Southwest Art magazines. Class Series Dates: 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17. Make-Up Day due to instructor illness or inclement weather: March 24th. Painting Supply List: https://jillbanks.fineartstudioonline.com/page/2045/oil-painting-jill-banks-supply-list