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“A Sunflower for Maggie” 1976

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Nature Up Close

in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe. Instructed by Joel Adas

2025-02-12 13:00:00 2025-02-12 14:30:00 America/New_York Nature Up Close Cape May City - Events Room North, Events Room South

Wednesday, February 12
1:00pm - 2:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-02-12 13:00:00 2025-02-12 14:30:00 America/New_York Nature Up Close Registration REQUIRED. Cape May City - Events Room North, Events Room South

Cape May City

Events Room North, Events Room South

Registration REQUIRED.

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Nature Up Close - in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe

Through her paintings Georgia O’Keeffe wanted people to truly look at nature. She was fascinated by the hidden world that exists in nature all around us but which we too often don’t take the time to notice.

Also a twentieth century painter, O’Keeffe combined this naturalism with a bent for abstraction which occurs when you take something quite small and blow it up large. We will follow her lead and take objects from the natural world and paint them on a larger scale.

We will first look at Georgia O’Keeffe’s sunflower paintings and do a small version of one of them on canvas. Then we will create our own version of nature up close using collage on paper.

Materials:

  • Small canvas: 9”x 12” or 11”x 14”
  • Multi media paper, about 12”x 16” or larger
  • Brushes: an array from detail to 1 inch wide
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • Pencil, eraser
  • Photos of objects from nature to enlarge in the collage
  • Set of acrylic paints
  • Palette (square of cardboard with foil wrapped around it)

 

This is a 3-class series being held on Wednesdays, 1pm-2:30pm at the Cape May City Library:

  • Feb. 5th
  • Feb. 12th
  • Feb. 19th

All registrants are required to attend the first class of a series. If absent, your spot will be given to the next in line on the Waitlist.

 

About Joel Adas - I have been teaching painting, drawing, and collage to all ages for 30 years. I grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey but moved to Brooklyn, New York in the mid 1990s.  I’ve exhibited my paintings extensively in New York and abroad and throughout my years in Brooklyn continued to teach in schools and community centers. My basic approach is to combine art making with some art history and a sense of where certain ideas and approaches to art come from.

Check out Joel's art gallery here: https://www.thecolorfulpalette.com/ 


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AGE GROUP: | 18 or older |

EVENT TYPE: | Arts & Crafts |

TAGS: | painting | collage | Arts and Crafts | art history | acrylic |

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