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Thursdays 2:30pm - 4:30pm PT starting June 16th, 2022

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🎨 Class Description

The Live Class Color and Light: The Figure in Environment with Renae Wang teaches you how to paint draped figures within different lighting environments.

This Live Class serves as an introduction to creating figurative work with a narrative approach.

You will learn how to depict the different effects of light on color through painting the figure.

You will paint using a variety of light sources, color palettes and compositional devices, outside of the traditional studio setting.

While this class is primarily taught in oil, students can use acrylic as a substitute.

  • Format
    This Live Class will feature live instruction, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques. While it is encouraged that you attend class live on the dates and times specified below, it is not required, and you can still watch a DVR of the class between weekly classes, and turn in your assignments for critique.

    As a Live Class participant, you will attend class digitally, via a live stream which will appear on the NMA.art website. Each week, you will learn live with the instructor, who will assign you homework to complete before the next class. You will then submit that homework for an opportunity to have it critiqued live by the instructor. During class, you can talk with other students, ask the instructor questions, share your work, and receive feedback on your assignments.

    You must have an active NMA.art subscription to attend this class. For more information, please contact us here.
  • Day and Time
    This Live Class will run for 15 weeks. Class runs every Thursday from 2:30pm - 4:30pm PT starting June 16th, 2022.

Meet Your Instructor

Renae Wang is a California-based artist working in oil. Her subject matter focuses on nocturnal landscapes and “non-places” like gas stations, diners, and airports. Her work is characterized by vibrant colors under artificial lights and immersive compositions with first-person points-of-view. These nocturnal paintings explore the universal human condition of isolation, as well as its relationship with public spaces of transience. The viewer either becomes the one observing a solitary figure or the one being isolated.