THE MAKING OF A GREAT PAINTING: LEARNING HOW TO LEARN FROM MASTERS
a seven weeks online program dedicated to an in-depth study of a masterpiece of painting
January 7, 2016 – February 26, 2016
This study program is now over. If you would like to be notified about future programs of painting studies, including other versions of this one, please subscribe to my newsletter using the form on the left bar. In the meanwhile, you can find all written materials for this program on this page: they will be useful if you want to study a masterpiece of painting on your own!
What is it about?
If you asked me to name a single best strategy of studying painting, my answer would be the same independently of your skill level: in-depth painting studies of masterpieces. The intention behind such a study is to understand how the painting works by doing — and thereby to learn the art of painting from this art’s greatest masters.
In this program, you choose the masterpiece you want to study in-depth, and my goal is to guide you through this process and share all I know about it, so that you learn as much as possible in the course of this program, and can repeat this experience on your own in the future, with other masterpieces.
This is the first, “pilot”, version of the program, and this means that it may be a unique opportunity: I don’t know whether I will ever offer it in this form again. It also means that the program will be co-created and shaped by you (and your fellow participants). If you want to learn more about this program, please read this blog post with answers to three questions that have been most frequently asked during the pre-registration stage. For additional information, please have a look at “Module 0: Getting Ready”.