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Live Panel: How to Create a Dynamic Still Life
Thursday, October 17th
5–6pm MDT
7–8pm EDT
12am–1am BST (Friday)
9am–10am AEST (Friday)
Mentors: Bobbi Dunlop & Marjorie Mae Broadhead
$19.00
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How To Create a Dynamic STILL LIFE
Choosing Objects, Lighting, & Composition
Still life painting is an ESSENTIAL PRACTICE for artists, offering the opportunity to focus on composition, lighting, and texture in a controlled environment.
To create a strong still life, artists must move beyond simply replicating objects and learn how to evoke MOOD, BALANCE visual elements, and bring DEPTH to their composition.
Join Mastrius Mentors Bobbi Dunlop and Marjorie Mae Broadhead who will tackle the most COMMON ISSUES they see artists face in still life painting, and how to OVERCOME them.
In this event you’ll learn:
- How to choose meaningful objects to create a COMPELLING NARRATIVE.
- How to compose a still life that balances FORM, COLOR, and SPACE.
- The importance of LIGHTING to create mood and depth.
- How to use perspective and focal points to guide the viewer’s eye.
- Choose a still life that supports your ARTISTIC GOALS.
- How to create modern & innovative still life compositions beyond tradition.
- BRING YOUR QUESTIONS! Mastrius Mentors are here to help.
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Meet Bobbi Dunlop
Oil Paint | Acrylic Paint
Childhood art creation opened a world that I happily took on as my personal identity. My parents lovingly encouraged my early efforts. Then it was my husband and children who supported and cheered my every advance. Each chapter of my life has brought renewed and abundant painterly richness for me as an artist.
At times we are fortunate enough to have a profound influence come into our lives at pivotal moments. For me, that authority was the masterful American artist, David A. Leffel whose philosophy about art and life has been a significant force in my artistic journey. Leffel’s profound words, “you learn about life as you learn to paint and you learn to paint as you learn about life” have long resonated with me.
Ultimately, painting is about life and how uniquely one sees it. It’s about “the pursuit of knowledge” … not about technique or formulas.
I believe that it is about beauty and when one looks for beauty, it will be clearly observed. Each time I begin a new painting, I look for innate beauty.
“Processes” have always fascinated me … how they intrinsically connect my work. As I have matured as an artist, this idea has become increasingly more important: the quality of the surfaces I choose to paint on, often hand-made; the lovely marks my brushes make; the luscious quality of the paint as I sculpt with my brush. All of these are processes that connect me more deeply to my work and bring a joy to my daily practice of painting.
I have been drawn to and inspired by the methods of the masters before me … the biggest influences being Rembrandt, Mancini, Sargent, Zorn, Repin, and Fechin to name a few.
Unwaveringly, the Glory of my Creator has always been the main driver in my work and gives me vital balance. It’s to this spirituality that I am so grateful and that I owe every insight and breakthrough I am inspired to enjoy in my studio.
Meet Marjorie Mae Broadhead
Acrylic Paint
“I paint for the sheer joy of putting color on canvas!
My preferred medium is acrylic since it really works well when layering with a variety of brushes, shapers, palette knives etc. Every creation has an element of surprise as it comes to life on my easel. My focus is on color and design. An impressionistic expression of florals, influenced by the abstract. Meant to draw you into the conversation without providing all the information. Intriguing.”
Marjorie Mae is best known for her vibrant and dramatic interpretations of the explosion of color she encounters as she explores nature’s lush and enchanting beauty (she was mesmerized by a recent visit to Monet’s gardens).
Every painting is a journey of discovery for her; whether she is capturing the light reflecting in her garden or conveying the elegance of a bloom, her work evokes emotion and tells an engaging story. It is her love and knowledge of color that gives her compositions their vivid quality. Workshops and online courses from artists of varied disciplines have opened her eyes to the countless ways of expressing her passion for color and texture. As a new painting comes to life under her brushes she has been heard to comment, “This is where I feel most alive!”
She has also enjoyed instructing small groups of budding artists and has been thrilled to watch as they take the courage to place paint on canvas! Her goal is to continue to develop her art as a loose and painterly expression of the world she encounters.
Marjorie Mae has been an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists since 2016 and was recently (July 2020) awarded SFCA status by the Federation “In Recognition of Extraordinary Achievement in the Field of the Visual Fine Arts.”