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in-Studio Workshop 2017

Although I have decided to take a brake this year from my regular teaching schedule I have received many requests that I teach workshops and have decided to do advanced workshops in my studio .The time I have taken has give me space to explore my own work and focus on personal projects. In this time I have learned a lot about where I've been and where I'm going, about my own work flow, and about what really keeps me going creatively.

These workshops will be advanced level and I will be pushing you to do more and try more. As you know my work has been changing drastically over the last couple years. I am still using my same ideas and techniques. I want to teach you how to use my techniques in your own style and help you find your own voice in your work. These workshops will be the only ones I am scheduling this year, so that I may continue to have space for personal growth. I am curating these classes with students who I have personally seen push their work and creativity forward during and after class. This will create a group dynamic allowing the group to really push themselves and each other.

I am offering two workshops at this time, 8 students each, 5days, $900.

pay and sign up via links below

• June - 15th - 19th (full waitlist open)  -   http://jessereno.com/june-2017.html
• August - 10th - 14th   ( full waitlist open); -   http://jessereno.com/aug-2017.html

These classes will have more structure. Each day will have planned lessons each focused on an aspect of process and idea. We will begin each day with a lecture demo focused on a particular process. You will then work on individual lessons for the entire day. I will be critiquing and guiding students through out the day but remaining focused on one core idea per day. The remaining time will be left for individual work and experimentation between the previous days lessons. There will be question and answer sessions as well as critiques throughout the days.





Lessons

• HELP! MY ART IS TO CUTE    Focused on taking pieces you already have in progress and roughing them up. Various techniques such as dry brush, line, scrapers, and other vandalizing moves to let them truely develop, attack them without just destroying them. you can think of it as taking a piece you feel is to tight and making it loose again while still maintaining its form and compositional relationships.

 

• IMAGINING THE UNIMAGINABLE   I will give sets of cues triggering ideas about form and meaning. You will choose your interpretation of the cue on your own and execute it in your own way. The cues will force personal introspection as well as collisions and possibly contradictions within your piece. The rendering will be fast and simple, the focus will be on the narrative created by ideas that interact in nonlinear and associative ways.

 

• EXPERIMENTAL PRINTING   Using mono prints, silkscreens, and photocopy transfers, we will experiment with layering and utilizing these techniques. Combining printing with other core ideas within my process to create finished works. I will teach you to use block and grab techniques to reshape and re associate the imagery in a variety of ways. Adding text, symbols, and line to to add meaning and redefine the base imagery.

 

• EXPRESSIVE REFERENCE   Starting using reference imagery for our work we will maintain a loose and expressed application to capture the feelings we get from the reference rather than the details.

 

• COLOR CHARTS AND MAPS    I will guide you to create color charts based on my concepts about color theory. Using hot cold light and dark to show how relationships between color are felt and processed as a viewer and how. Also focusing on the distribution of color within composition to move the eye throughout a piece. Through simple guided interactions each student will be working to find their own color map. Our goal is that these pieces will act as documentations to show individual sense of contrast and desired levels of color interaction within there work.

 

• BREAKING FACES   Learning to create and deconstruct faces through a series of guided instructions. Faces will continually build, reshape, become vandalized, growing in levels of expression through out the process to reach a final state where it is a relic of all its growth

 

BASIC INFORMATION

The two workshops will be held at my studio in Portland at 
3022 E Burnside st, Portland, OR 97214. 
There will be 8 students per class.
COST $900
5 days of full instruction from 11am - 6pm. 
Thursday - Monday





All supplies included

Bring 3-5 medium size works that are started/ close to finished and either to tight or to “cute

(feel free to bring a small amount of your favorite tools and supplies but please keep it reasonable as space can get crowded)





The first night after class we will meet at my favoirte pizza place just a few blocks away for pizza and drinks on me! This will give us a chance to relax and get to know each other. More info closer to class.


To Sign up Choose the dates your interested in and use the link below

June 15^th - 19^{th - http://jessereno.com/june-2017.html}

September 14^th - 18th http://jessereno.com/sept-2017.html

This 100$ reservation deposit is NOT REFUNDABLE. The remaining $800.00 must be paid in full by 5/14 June class, 7/15 September class unless other arrangements are made.





Please feel free to reach out with questions jesse@jessereno.com