Pop-up Drawing and Painting class

Name: Pop-up Drawing and Painting class
Start: 2024-08-04
End: 2024-08-04
Location: ART LAB

Maya Barstone is an Australian-Greek painter based in Sydney, Australia. Her family has been coming to Serifos since 1976 when her Yiayia (also a painter) bought a painting studio here. Maya will be holding two pop-up drawing and painting classes at ARTLAB on the 4th and 11th of August from 7pm until 9.30pm. The first hour will be timed sessions of still life drawings. There will be a Greek-themed table set up that will be the subject of the night. We will start with a few short lessons on finding the angles and the perspective of the subject, as well as depicting the foreground, middle, and background. After an hour with pencils, we will whip out the paints. The last hour and a half will be dedicated to your final artwork. Maya will explain and demonstrate the colour theory, colour mixing, application of colour and applying those skills into creating a space.

What to bring with you: Comfy clothes, your creative mood

Date

04 Aug 2024

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Time

19:00 - 21:30

Location

ART LAB

Speaker

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Maya Barnstone

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Born in Washington state, I spent the first 14 years of my life in the US, staying with family in Greece three months out of every year. I’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from America and particularly my summers in Greece. My yiayia, Elli, who’s 99 years old and lives in Athens, has painted her entire life. When I visit we often paint together. In 2012, I moved to Australia and attended Newtown high school of the performing arts. There I studied dance and drama, in year 10 I discovered painting. I graduated high school in 2016 and went straight into a Bachelors degree of fine arts at the National Art School where I majored in painting. I’m now five years out of school and painting every day. Waiting for the day I can go to Greece again and paint with my yiayia.