Kurt Anderson
Bio
Kurt Anderson has won top honors with the Oil Painters of America, the Salon International and the Open Market National (where he won Best of Show in 2004). He also won Grand Prize in International Artist magazine’s 2004 Floral Painting Challenge.Articles about Anderson have appeared in numerous magazines and books and he is author of Realistic Oil Painting Techniques (North Light Books, 1995). Anderson received his artistic education in the traditional atelier or studio system of training under Minneapolis artist Richard Lack. This makes him part of a master-pupil lineage that can be traced back to 19th century masters such as Jacques Louis David.
Classes taught by Kurt Anderson
Painting the Figure and Flowers Part II
In the second half of Kurt Anderson’s two week workshop students will work on the more advanced problem of creating a single large finished painting of a figure with flowers. Anderson will focus on his personal technique of first developing a bistre underpainting and then overworking it with opaque, naturalistic color.
Painting the Figure and Flowers Part I
The focus will be on figurative and portrait painting in oils, but also integrated into this unique workshop will be artist Kurt Anderson’s insights into his specialty: floral painting. His instruction is grounded in the classic atelier method, which emphasizes building skill upon skill. With daily demos and personal critiques the first week of instruction will be devoted to the fundamentals of color, brushwork and design. Each daily session will feature a new pose (with different costumes and sometimes flowers) and students will create at least one new painting each day.