Reconstructing the Landscape: 3-Week Painting Club Inspired by Hurvin Anderson

​Explore the tension between representation and abstraction in this three-week (6 hours) online summer course, inspired by the contemporary painter Hurvin Anderson. Together, we will explore how to draw from personal histories and memories, reconstructing familiar spaces through paint.

​Designed to help you lean into atmospheric colour, paint application and experiment with graphic overlays, this course guides you through a step-by-step evolution from a real place to a semi-abstract composition.

​Week 1: Photographic Collage & memory/imagination(4th August 7-9pm)

• ​Focus: Creating compositions

• ​Activity: Group sharing on references that interest you. Demonstration. Building compositions

• ​Practice: Combine fragments from your own photographs using tracing paper and collage to build a brand new, fictional layout.

• ​Goal: Capture the bones and structure of a memory-based environment.

​Week 2: Technique and colour (11th August 7-9pm)

• ​Focus: Underpainting, fluid washes, and colour theory.

• ​Activity: Start translating your compositions into atmospheric paintings. Demonstation's on material technique and colour theory

• ​Practice: Experiment with techniques that submerge figuration into abstraction. Building your image.

• ​Goal: Build block shapes, light sources, and fluid tonal depth across the surface.

​Week 3: Building depth and dimension (18th August 7-9pm)

• ​Focus: Create strong tonal range, details, demos on stenciling, masking, and abstract deconstruction.

• ​Activity: Work directly on top of your week two painting to build depth and dimension

• ​Practice: Experiment with some of the techniques in the demo

• ​Goal: Have a painting that experiments with some of the techniques we explored in the class that is personal to you.