"Textural Painting: Exploring Anselm Kiefer's Techniques"
Tuesdays & Fridays — 9:00 - 12:00
Dates: July 10, 21, 24, 31; August 11, 14, 25, 28.
(NOTE various Tuesdays & Fridays)
Beginning Friday, July 10th, Victor Wang will be teaching an 8 session class at GACA.
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.
Texture Painting Studio: Exploring Anselm Kiefer's Techniques – Victor Wang
Subject: Students choose their own subject to paint in this class, such as portraits, figures, landscapes, cityscapes, or still life. We will finish one painting during this 8-session study.
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.