Contemporary Figure Painting with Patricia Fabian
Patricia Fabian
Contemporary Figure Painting
4 Mondays
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Session 1: Sept 12 - Oct 3
Session 2: Oct 17 - Nov 7
$140 members*
$165 non-members*
Learn to paint quickly and without thinking it through to express what you see before it is filtered in your mind. Then explore the freedom of cropping to create a masterpiece within. Less is more. Learn the technique of elimination and layering to create mood in your figure painting. Modeling fee included. For beginners and intermediate students.
SUPPLY LIST:
Bring a sketch pad for quick poses and another selection of canvas sizes for longer poses. Bring whatever medium you prefer to work in and soft charcoal for quick sketches.
EMAIL PATRICIA with any questions you might have: pbfabian@aol.com
Contemporary Figure Painting
4 Mondays
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Session 1: Sept 12 - Oct 3
Session 2: Oct 17 - Nov 7
$140 members*
$165 non-members*
Learn to paint quickly and without thinking it through to express what you see before it is filtered in your mind. Then explore the freedom of cropping to create a masterpiece within. Less is more. Learn the technique of elimination and layering to create mood in your figure painting. Modeling fee included. For beginners and intermediate students.
SUPPLY LIST:
Bring a sketch pad for quick poses and another selection of canvas sizes for longer poses. Bring whatever medium you prefer to work in and soft charcoal for quick sketches.
EMAIL PATRICIA with any questions you might have: pbfabian@aol.com
"Pink Kimono" wins First Place at Festival of Trees! Awarded by Alexandra Skliris, Curator Assistant, European Art Department of the High Museum of Art.
Patricia Fabian Bio
I was born in Jersey City and raised in the inner city. This was the time of Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, and JFK. I grew up wanting to be a writer. I kept diaries, journals and wrote poetry and short stories. I do remember that I would love to sit at the kitchen table and do collage mosaics. I would tear construction paper into tiny pieces and make mosaic scenes of the shore, sailboats and the horizon line. I liked laying color on color and the feel of the paper.
I went to college in Oklahoma and received my BA in Film and my MA in Humanities. During my graduate studies I took an elective course in Watercolor. My professor encouraged me to continue painting and I did. I then set out to New Mexico and studied at a ranch adjacent to Ghost Ranch. It was there that I saw color for the first time. I would set up my easel in the morning for lavender paintings and then at night all was orange.
I left there to study at the Art League in VA. I sold all my belongings and rented a studio in Chinatown. I became involved again with collage and did my first collage series, “MT Suits” a satire of corporate politics. I also painted outdoors using pastels and would spend many afternoons painting anywhere from the Washington Marina to the hills of Buckeystown, MD.
Then, I fell in love, married and moved to Atlanta. In Atlanta I became discouraged by the landscape destroyed overnight by a lack of zoning laws. I did a series titled “Untamed Landscapes”. I smashed clay pots and then painted papers and added objects in an expressive mosaic style. I also continued painting in pastels and painted figures and people in motion. I was looking to capture that quiet moment that leads you to insight into a person’s life with just one glance.
We moved again to Texas where I loved the big sky and the wonderful people. I painted the cowboy of today and the 20th century cowboy lifestyle. I painted with acrylic and on large canvases. I even used antique windows from flea markets for frames. I loved the dry dirt, the color of rust and blue jeans. My paintings smacked Americana.
Six years ago, I moved to NJ and discovered Hunterdon County, Bucks County and reconnected to the Shore. My husband bought a motorcycle and we go out every weekend and I experienced the horizon line like never before. The sky is majestic, the horizon line so clear now and the senses of the flowers brought me to a new relationship with nature. I have done several series of these afternoon rides. Now I work almost exclusively in oil. I love the feel of the paint and the way I can texture sections of the work with my palette knife and leave others smooth and almost untouched. I love the contrast. I find direction in the horizon line and that is where all my paintings begin and end. I use the paint now like the mosaic of my childhood on my kitchen table in Jersey City.
Just as we felt settled in NJ we moved again to Georgia. My studio now is nestled in the woods on the banks of Lake Lanier just outside Atlanta. I have fallen in love with the Appalachian Mountains and have come to understand in a new way the Cherokee legends of the past. Still, every year, I return to the Jersey Shore for inspiration and reconnect with my spiritual home. I paint plein air from Seabright to Spring Lake.
Writing has given way to painting but in all my paintings I see a story and still consider myself a story teller with the medium of paint, mosaic or pastel.
My artwork has been on exhibition throughout North America and my works are in several private foundations, corporations and public organizations including The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, the United States Tennis Association and Intersal (Philip Masters company that founded Black Beards Shipwreck) Below is a list of my recent and current competitions/exhibitions. http://www.patriciafabian.com/PatriciaFabian/Welcome.html
I went to college in Oklahoma and received my BA in Film and my MA in Humanities. During my graduate studies I took an elective course in Watercolor. My professor encouraged me to continue painting and I did. I then set out to New Mexico and studied at a ranch adjacent to Ghost Ranch. It was there that I saw color for the first time. I would set up my easel in the morning for lavender paintings and then at night all was orange.
I left there to study at the Art League in VA. I sold all my belongings and rented a studio in Chinatown. I became involved again with collage and did my first collage series, “MT Suits” a satire of corporate politics. I also painted outdoors using pastels and would spend many afternoons painting anywhere from the Washington Marina to the hills of Buckeystown, MD.
Then, I fell in love, married and moved to Atlanta. In Atlanta I became discouraged by the landscape destroyed overnight by a lack of zoning laws. I did a series titled “Untamed Landscapes”. I smashed clay pots and then painted papers and added objects in an expressive mosaic style. I also continued painting in pastels and painted figures and people in motion. I was looking to capture that quiet moment that leads you to insight into a person’s life with just one glance.
We moved again to Texas where I loved the big sky and the wonderful people. I painted the cowboy of today and the 20th century cowboy lifestyle. I painted with acrylic and on large canvases. I even used antique windows from flea markets for frames. I loved the dry dirt, the color of rust and blue jeans. My paintings smacked Americana.
Six years ago, I moved to NJ and discovered Hunterdon County, Bucks County and reconnected to the Shore. My husband bought a motorcycle and we go out every weekend and I experienced the horizon line like never before. The sky is majestic, the horizon line so clear now and the senses of the flowers brought me to a new relationship with nature. I have done several series of these afternoon rides. Now I work almost exclusively in oil. I love the feel of the paint and the way I can texture sections of the work with my palette knife and leave others smooth and almost untouched. I love the contrast. I find direction in the horizon line and that is where all my paintings begin and end. I use the paint now like the mosaic of my childhood on my kitchen table in Jersey City.
Just as we felt settled in NJ we moved again to Georgia. My studio now is nestled in the woods on the banks of Lake Lanier just outside Atlanta. I have fallen in love with the Appalachian Mountains and have come to understand in a new way the Cherokee legends of the past. Still, every year, I return to the Jersey Shore for inspiration and reconnect with my spiritual home. I paint plein air from Seabright to Spring Lake.
Writing has given way to painting but in all my paintings I see a story and still consider myself a story teller with the medium of paint, mosaic or pastel.
My artwork has been on exhibition throughout North America and my works are in several private foundations, corporations and public organizations including The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, the United States Tennis Association and Intersal (Philip Masters company that founded Black Beards Shipwreck) Below is a list of my recent and current competitions/exhibitions. http://www.patriciafabian.com/PatriciaFabian/Welcome.html
