Painting Workshop
The Wyly Community Art Center welcomes Meridy Volz for this popular, weeklong, morning painting class. Working from photographs, Meridy will emphasize color, form, line, texture and over all composition of a painting. She will work individually with each student, exploring all approaches and learning styles. Open to all media: oil, acrylic, pastel, oil pastel and watercolor. All skill levels are welcome.
Reduced tuition for this workshop was made possible by Barbara McElnea.
Jul 19 2010 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday,
July 19-23,
9:30 am-12:30 pm
14 years - Adult
Adults
All Skill Levels
location:
Wyly Community Art Center
$ 175.00
Meridy Volz
Visiting Artist and Instructor
"I love color. My work is best described as gestural, expressionist with an impressionist palette. I use the figure in all my work to express passion and sensuality. My paintings are rendered in oils and my drawings are pastels and oil pastels. I use texture (impasto) and stroke to create a vibrant movement of energy, and the intensity of color interplay to create a mood.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I received a scholarship at the age of six to attend the Milwaukee Art Center. I spent most of my time in art rooms of my high school, and began rendering portraits at age sixteen. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1971 with a B.S. in art education. Here I wrote and illustrated Children’s books for the Rockefeller Foundation. I moved to San Francisco, CA in 1976. Here I began to show extensively, and win awards and critical acclaim. I also taught painting workshops to prisoners of San Quentin Penitentiary.
In 1977, I gave birth to my daughter, Alia (my greatest creation.) She also is my favorite model.
In 1998, I moved to Puerto Vallarta, where tropical colors have been added to my palette. I exhibited at Galeria Pacifico for three seasons, and now I am exhibiting my work at Galleria Dante. I teach life drawing at the instituto del Arte. I do portraits a by commission."
http://www.galleriadante.com/artists2/volz,_meridy.htm
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