Jesse Reno is coming back!!!
- Nov 25, 2009
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Last year RubyDog's hosted a 2-day workshop with Jesse Reno. It was, in my humble opinion, the best workshop ever presented by RDs! Oh, my gosh, all I wanted to do was paint for weeks afterward and, believe me, I never thought I would say that about painting. I never thought I would even utter the word 'painting' with regard to myself!
Jesse is a talented, generous and proficient artist and teacher. He's taught people who have never painted and artists who paint full time. Regardless of your experience, be ready to get down, get dirty and enjoy an inspiring and delightful weekend!
This is a class not about painting a specific thing or outcome, its more about how we create that is important. It’s all about developing techniques and approaches to art, being pushed to further our own work and ideas using Jesse’s processes. The techniques learned here can be applied to any style of creation. It’s about painting, painting over, layers, changing ideas, starting new ones, coming back to old ones, trying any new ideas that come to mind. Drawing clenched fisted, wrong handed, without looking, using hands and palms to smear and mix acrylic paints, using brushes, scrapers, oil crayons and pastels in any way that comes to mind.
Learn how to mix paints right on your surface, dipping between two or three colours. You’ll see it’s not necessarily a lot of extremely different colours that make things brilliant; it’s a few with a lot of subtlety.
It’s easy to get caught up with the ideas in ones head. The aim of this workshop is to learn that a plan is just a starting point, at best, and it’s always ok to change direction. A rigid plan can confuse us with let downs and expectations. Just because things aren’t going as planned doesn’t mean they’re going poorly. Frustration distracts us and pushes us back. Fun and excitement move us forward. That’s why Jesse looks for techniques and approaches that are physically and mentally fun and stress free.
To quote Jesse, “....it’s abstract in a lot of ways, but it all makes sense when you see it. I'm always looking for a new technique to inspire me. Painting in many reckless layers, searching for a meaning in random intentions then pulling out the images I begin to see. This is what I aim to instil in everybody who plays with me in my workshops. The excitement of the unexpected, creating in ways that don't seem like they should work, but do.”
This class will really open you up and remove the pressure from painting, making it fun and creative, each time showing you and reinforcing the idea that you can outshine your expectations of yourself in ways you never knew.
This is going to be an incredible weekend with a talented artist and teacher. Whether you’ve never opened a tube of acrylic paint before or have spent the last 20 years applying it to canvas, join the fun!
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DATE: September 25 and 26, 2010
TIME: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm each day
PLACE: Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral
154 West 10th Ave. (10th and Main)
COST: $285.00 if paid by August 22
$315.00 after August 22
Price does not include GST
THIS WORKSHOP WILL SELL OUT. LAST YEAR I HAD 10 PEOPLE ON THE WAITING LIST BY TIME THE CLASS BEGAN. REGISTER EARLY!
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THE FINE PRINT:
All cancellations must be received by September 1st to receive a refund. Cancellations after that date will result in a refund only if the space can be filled from the waiting list.
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Website: www.jessereno.com
Mexico City mural video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1PgYBoH3U
Video interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bae11yYx9Q
Still pictures of mural at Grace Salon: http://jessereno.com/blog/2008/12/mural-at-grace-salon/#more-157
Still pictures of mural in Winnipeg: http://www.jessereno.com/feature/2007-07/winnipeg/site.php
