Still Life – Form & Color from Master Artists workshop – April 17, May 1 & 8, 2025

Still Life: Form and Color with Inspiration from Master Artists workshop

with Artist, Jennifer Koury
3-Day Workshop on Thursdays, April 17th, May 1st & 8th, from 9:30am – 1:00pm

The Roycroft Campus – 21 South Grove St. East Aurora, NY

Fruits, Vegetables, Flora, Transparent Glass, and the Unusual: Come explore the contrasting forms and colors of the still life for a weekly class to expand the “fruits” of your labor. Using unique shapes, transparent, opaque, and reflective objects, and thick, thin and voluptuous plants, the instructor will discuss form, highlights, core shadows and cast shadows. Enjoy a weekly demo exploring composition and creative painting techniques, while finding inspiration from a variety of master artists too.

Students are asked to bring the water-media of your choice. Use one medium, or combine several for mixed media results, while receiving instructor input. Easels and tables are supplied by the Castiglia Art Center. All other materials will be supplied by each individual.

Materials are not included in the workshop fee. Below is a list of recommended materials.

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:

• Watercolor or water-media of your choice with your favorite pigments
• Appropriate brushes for your media choice
• Palette to suit your medium
• Surface for painting: 100% Cotton Watercolor Paper or Crescent Board (Suggested brands: Arches, Winsor and Newton, or Saunders Waterford). Please bring at least two pieces per class, one approximately 11×15, and one 11×15 or larger
• Jars or plastic yogurt container for water
• Rags and/or paper towels
• Charcoal or Graphite, and Erasers
• A sketch book or paper

The Castiglia Art Center will provide: Easels, tables, taborets, chairs and lights. Please feel free to bring a beverage and/or something to snack on.

Jennifer Koury is a Buffalo-based artist, freelance illustrator, and arts educator. She holds degrees in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and Art Center College of Design, California and has been teaching at various Art Centers around the area.

Koury is represented by Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. She has exhibited her paintings in both solo and group shows around the region, and won awards, including being finalist in the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Her art is featured in the NFWS Mary Whyte Gallery Walk video, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Visitor Center in Virginia, and Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona, and her illustrations have appeared in many children’s books. She is a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, and a signature member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.

For more information, please visit her website at jenniferkouryart.com

Class Tuition: $165 = Total $165
Registration is required and seating is limited.

Class will take place at the Castiglia Art Center in the Print Shop on The Roycroft Campus – 21 South Grove St. East Aurora, NY 14052

If you have any questions please call the Roycroft Campus at 716-655-0261 or email us.