Textural Painting: Exploring Anselm Kiefer's Techniques with Victor Wang

Instructor: Victor Wang

Tuesdays & Fridays — 9:00 - 12:00
Dates: July 10, 21, 24, 31; August 11, 14, 25, 28.
(NOTE various Tuesdays & Fridays)

Class Description: Contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer revolutionized modern painting with his deeply tactile, heavily textured surfaces. His masterworks create a dual experience, shifting completely between distant observation and close-up interaction.

As an artist deeply fascinated by his rich surfaces, I invite you to join me in this specialized study. I will share my personal insights and experiences with Kiefer's methods. We will experiment with dynamic mark-making, raw materials, texture building, and glazing layers to recreate the iconic surface quality. You can apply these techniques to any subject matter you prefer, including portraits, landscapes, seascapes, or semi-abstract compositions. I will coach you step-by-step as you develop one to two finished pieces over this 8-session course.

Materials for texture class:

• Joint compound.

• Marble dust

• Acrylic paste

• Crayola Powder paint (white)

• Crackle Paint/paste

• Elmers Glue

• Acrylic colors (earth colors)

• Oil Paints:

• Flake White or Flake Hue or Mixing White (Rembrandt)

• Indian Yellow, Yellow Ochre

• Cadmium Red light, Alizarin Crimson

• Burnt Sienna/Transparent Red Ochre (Winsor Newton), Burnt Umber

• Thalo Green

• Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue

• Ivory Black

• Tools:

• Scraper, Squeegee and palette knife

• Acrylic Gesso

• Brushes: Hard hair and soft hair

• Chip brushes (1½” and 2”) (Cheap paint brushes from the hardware store)

You are encouraged to bring any additional materials you would like to try for your personal interests.