UPCOMING CLASSES

One of the most popular and versatile murals you can paint, cloudscapes can be painted as beautiful soaring ceilings on their own, or serve as the base for grand figurative or architectural murals. A well painted cloud ceiling mural can raise up the ceiling and create the illusion of height, and enliven the architecture while bringing color and a sense of light to the room.
In this intensive workshop, learn techniques for painting decorative cloud ceilings that are artful, colorful, and surprisingly fast to produce. We'll explore various aspects of good design such as composing cloudscapes of different shapes and sizes to suit the proportions of the ceiling, and creating color palettes for tailoring the mural to the room and its decor. Avoid the trap of painting "flying boulders" and create skies that are luminous and airy.

Topics covered:

• Practice painting technique at full scale in a working mural studio
• Designing compositions for rectangular or "tray" ceilings
• Creating palettes for different colors and "moods" of skies - allowing for more expressive and painterly murals.
• Matching colors of cloudscapes to work with the interior design of the room
• Advanced cloud composition: designing for domes, round,or oblong ceilings
• Designing clouds to use with figures or as part of more complicated ceiling murals
• Marouflage techniques for adding figures or birds into a ceiling or for installing a canvas mural in general.

Participants will create their own unique full-scale cloudscape panels.

class fee:

TBA
includes all paint and materials used in class, full-size mural panels, detailed class notes.

location:

Lynne Rutter Studio | 2325 3rd St. #207, San Francisco, CA   (map)
class hours: 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Reservations

• Reservations for this class are not being accepted at this time
• Call or email the studio to inquire about this or other workshops.