Friday, February 28, 2014

MAGGIE SINER WORKSHOP

I have been in Florida visiting my sister and brother-in-law and taking a three day Maggie Siner workshop.  I am now home with good memories of my visit.  Maggie is a good teacher with an abundance of energy and knowledge.  I have admired her work for a long time and was thrilled when Eileen Corse squeezed me in at the last minute.

Below is a demo Maggie painted.  As you can see she finished just enough to get us started on our first painting.














Maggie stresses the importance of relationships with color, value and intensity.  Each exercise we did built from the previous one with the common thread being relationships.  Compare each color and stroke with everything that has already been established. 

There was so much to learn and absorb - my brain is still spinning (in a good way)!  My goal is to take another workshop from Maggie.  In the meantime I will continue to work in the studio and try to apply the new information I have acquired in the last couple of months.

10 comments:

  1. Linda, thanks for sharing the photos from your workshop. I've been a huge admirer of Maggie Siner's since I first saw her work a number of years ago. Taking one of her workshops has been on my art bucket list since then but she doesn't go many classes a year and I always seem to have other commitments when her dates come out. Now with your kudos about her teachings and the workshop, I hope I'll be able to experience her course too. I hope you will be sharing some of the work you did in the class too.

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  2. Lydia, I hope you can take one of her workshops, too. She is amazing! One of the first things she says is that you will not come away with a completed painting. That was true. We had 3 days of exercises. I wasn't planning on showing any of my work, so I will think about it. :)

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  3. Linda, lucky you to have had the opportunity to study with Maggie! You must have met my friend, Barbara Benedict Jones! Looking forward to seeing more.

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  4. Linda, thank you so much for such an interesting post........very very interesting. I love Maggie's work. What a great experience it must have been! :-)

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  5. I love her work! I bet you learned a ton. :)

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  6. Thanks Linda. I have Maggie on my bucket list as well!

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  7. Did she take the painting further?

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  8. Thanks for introducing me to Maggie Siner's work. I wasn't aware of her and love the energy and gestural quality.

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  9. Great work Linda! I haven't been to your blog before but stumbled across it this evening and am extremely impressed!

    Looking forward to seeing more,

    Tom

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  10. sounds like such a great workshop!! Thanks for sharing! She is a new artist to me...so fun to discover!

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