This 4-week course meets wednesday, may 1, 8, 15, & 22
from 10:00am to 12:00pm
In this beginner-level course, Carolyn Biggio discusses art history, developing color masses, and oil techniques with students. Carolyn will give presentations on art history, specifically the development from academic painting to impressionism in 19th Century France, and will teach students how to develop shape, color masses, and volume. Students will work new with objects each week - including transparent objects. This class is great for students who wish to learn about the all-encompassing history and techniques of oil paints and still life!
Ages 18 & Up
Students are required to bring most of their supplies.
Class located at at 320 North Columbia Street in Downtown Covington!
carolyn’s artist statement
Carolyn is a painter in oils. I began studying painting in the 1980’s when a friend recommended a small studio offering classes. In those classes I became familiar with the work of Henry Hensche of Provincetown, MA. At the time Hensche had travelled to Louisiana to give workshops and eventually he settled in Gray, LA and stayed until the end of his life.
Through Hensche and other followers of his, I learned about the color mass approach to painting. With this study of objects in certain light, the color masses of the light plane, the shade plane and the cast shadow, the subject can be depicted in the atmospheric conditions present. This kind of painting leads to a lifelong study to take what you know to be true through observation and apply it to the canvas. It’s all study, not completion of the artist’s education. I also gravitate to the idea that a painter can develop their own voice with this approach.
My love is still life, “the arrangement of truth”, as Hensche described art. I like to see a common object raised up to fine consideration in oils.
Carolyn has a BA in Visual Art from Southeastern Louisiana University (2012). She is represented by Studio de Chene in Baton Rouge, LA.
Recent Shows:
2022 & 2023 River Road Show, Baton Rouge, LA
2023 New Orleans Art Association National Show, NO, LA
2023 Small Changes Art Exhibition, Decatur, GA
2022 Texas and Neighbors Show, Irving, TX
2021 108th Allied Artists of America National Show, NY, NY
2021 88th Annual Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT
2021 27th Biennale, Hilton Head, SC