The Painting Experience Workshop focuses on teaching participants to see a painting through the eyes of the artist using light and shade to put across an idea or message, to evoke a feeling or mood. In essence, it is about how to look at paintings. Participants will also be shown and discuss various works by master and contemporary artists.

Another important dimension has been the therapeutic advantage of the workshop. Many participants joined as a form of relaxation, to relieve stress from their everyday jobs. They have found that turning their attention to art has helped relieve their stress levels considerably.

Participants in previous workshops have consisted of a wide age range, and from all kinds of backgrounds. Some have had previous art training, many not. The majority attend because they say they want an insight into art enabling them to enjoy galleries and museums more fully, while others regard the workshop as a preliminary introduction before going on to take a more intensive drawing and painting course.

Workshop Outline:

Composition
This constitutes the most important layer of a painting, for it is in composition that the visual story is created.

Drawing – 60 minutes
Drawing is essentially about working with lines. Using a pencil and eraser, and other simple artist’s equipment such as oil pastels, the participant will begin drawing in order to learn how to place lines on a page, as well as how to handle the drawing media.

Colour
This part of the workshop focuses on the use of colour in a painting. Participants will learn to dissect colour scientifically, and understand what elements different colours are made from.

Painting – 60 minutes
Apply knowledge and produce a still life

Discussion
Participants will discuss the idea of originality in a painting by using examples of their favourite artists, and then begin to discover their own originality.

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About the artist
A graduate of St. Patrick’s Art Centre (now LasalleE-SIA College of the Arts), the Singaporean artist Manjeet Shergill began exhibiting her work in 1982, both in Singapore and abroad, where she has been well received. She established the independent Shergill Studio from which she paints, and from where her works have been consigned to galleries in Berlin, Bangkok and London. Manjeet Shirgill is a celebrated artist who contributes greatly to the advancement of the arts in Singapore through her paintings and through the success of her popular Creative Art Workshops.
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Event details
Date: 16 February 2013
Time: 10am – 2pm
Venue: AWARE Centre (location)
Fee: S$450.00 (includes all materials)

Simple lunch will be provided.

Feel free to bring along artworks that you’ve done to share to the class.

So what are you waiting for? Sign-up now and discover the hidden artist in you!

To register for the workshop, please click here or send email to Pam at publiceducation@aware.org.sg.