Visual Art: Exercises in Painting and Color
A Course by Laura Summer
This course is an overview of subjects that can be developed in the realm of painting and color. Each of the subjects investigated can be expanded and worked with over a greater time if that becomes an interest to the student. In this course we will work with the qualities of color, (example: how is red different from blue on a feeling level), color mood, color perspective, Rudolf Steiner’s approach to color, (luster color, image color, color wheels), Rudolf Steiner’s sketches for painters, (the 9 nature moods), as well as questions of working with painting in conjunction with text, meaning and devotion. In the final lesson, we will use drawing exercises to experience the Gospel of John. Participants can begin any time and work at their own pace.
The EduCareDo Foundation Course or similar background in anthroposophy is extremely useful but not a pre-requisite.
Lesson Plan
Experiential exercises in painting and color are the primary focus of the twelve written lessons.
Participants may include excerpts from their course journal in their monthly diary sheet submissions and are also invited to submit images of their work with corresponding reflections on the process and experience with that particular image. The course tutor can then respond and provide feedback in relationship to their specific submissions and related reflections, in addition to the more overarching diary sheet reflections.
Cost to Enroll
Standard Enrollment: $450 AUD (~$320 USD)
Current or Past EduCareDo Year-long Course Participants: $350 AUD (~$250 USD)
This includes
- 12 PDF lessons via email, sent monthly
- Individual feedback on lesson submissions
Tuition assistance is available if needed. Please contact us.
Laura Summer is co-founder of Free Columbia, an arts initiative that includes a full time program based on aesthetic education, contemplative enquiry and action research. It is completely grass roots donation supported and has no set tuitions. Her approach to color is influenced by Beppe Assenza, Rudolf Steiner, and by Goethe’s color theory. She has been working with questions of color and contemporary art for 30 years. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in New York City and at the Sekem Community in Egypt. She has published nine books. She founded two temporary alternative exhibition spaces in Hudson NY, 345 Collaborative Gallery and Raising Matter-this is not a gallery and initiated ART DISPERSAL 2012-20 where over 700 pieces of art by professional artists have been dispersed to the public without set prices.
