Workshops

Gregg Kreutz
www.greggkreutz.com
Chiaroscuro
December, 2008
ALL LEVELS
$650 (for 5 days)

This painting workshop for students of all levels will focus on still-life and  portrait.  The emphasis will be on pragmatic painting and drawing skills with a particular focus on the depiction of light on form. Communicating the internal structure and turning a collection of objects into one thing will also be explored. Gregg is an excellent and popular instructor, giving extensive attention to each student.

The intensity of a picture is an echo of the intensity with which it was painted. Your attitude toward the worth of your efforts shows up on the canvas. If you’re indifferent, the picture will be uninvolving. You don’t have to think you are great but you do need to feel that what you’re after is great.”

"Painters are fortunate in that they can convey large ideas with very modest means. But that ease of production shouldn’t trivialize the painter’s attitude. He shouldn’t feel that a couple of hours spent painting is simply a diversion. It’s really an opportunity to expand. And realistic painting is an especially rewarding endeavor. To actively go after it means to learn what makes art, and what the external world really looks like, and how the two can be fused.”
 
Gregg Kreutz received his education from New York University and the Art Students League and studied with David Leffel. He exhibits at various galleries in New York, Wisconsin, Arizona and New Mexico. Kreutz authored "Problem Solving for Oil Painters," published by Watson-Guptill, and he was featured in March '88 American Artist. He had a one-man show at Grand Central Gallery, New York, in 1989. Kreutz has many awards to his credit, including the Salmagundi Club, Grumbacher, and Frank C. Wright awards. In his view, "Realistic painting is an especially rewarding endeavor. To actively go after it means to learn what makes art, what the external world really looks like, and how the two can be fused.