Master Copy Class by Elizabeth Floyd

TUESDAYS, TERM IS 5-SESSIONS LONG

We will dive deeply into the creative process of Henri Fantin-Latour. Fantin-Latour was a master in capturing the compelling beauty of flowers. In our master copy class we will look deeply at his painting, Roses de Nice on a Table, 1882.
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AUTUMN TERM: TUESDAYS, SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 10, 24

With a painting review on Tuesday, November 7th

  • Morning Sessions

    10am to 1pmEST (9am to noon CST, 8am to 11am MST, AND 7am to 10amPST)

  • Evening Sessions

    7 to 10pm EST (6 to 9pm CST, 5 to 8pm MST, AND 4 to 7pm PST)

What you will learn in this class

Henri Fantin-Latour's flower paintings are emotive and simply executed. Let's dive into one of his mesmerizing rose paintings and reverse engineer how he painted.

  • You will learn about the materials he used

  • You will learn how to prep our linen like he did

  • You will investigate in depth his brushstroke techniques

  • You will learn how to paint with thick paint

  • ... and much more

This class has a bit of art history and a whole lot of art.

We will explore how he used layers of paint by examining and analyzing detailed images of his brushtrokes. He used multiple paint layers to achieve a variety of effects.

  • An integral part of the artistic process is to create “copies” of the master artists.  In this 5-week ONLINE class, you will learn all about the artist we are focusing on and his processes as we “copy” his work. Due to the detailed method of Fantin-Latours’s technique, we will only have time to focus on a master copy in the autumn term.

  • A Rose Workshop will be taught starting Tuesday, November 14th. To learn how to apply Fantin-Latour's painting technique into an original painting.

  • My goal for the class is to teach ideas and concepts that are best absorbed by action.  The action of reverse-engineering and problem solving, and then executing through practice. 

  • Over a three-year period, I copied seven paintings at the National Gallery of Art here in DC.  I covered the gamut of subject matter from Dutch Golden Age still-life paintings to French Impressionism.  I base a lot of my own artistic growth on the time spent copying masterpieces and then applying the lessons learned to new paintings I created.

  • For this class we will utilize technology and paint from photo references.  The master copy will be from a high-quality photo reference we get from a museum.

  • All classes are taught via ZOOM, recordings are provided to enrolled students.