Join teaching artist Ben Hamburger to learn the foundations of painting cityscapes!

Painting the built environment (architectural elements, cars, roads and sidewalks) can be intimidating. During this workshop, participants will learn methods to reduce the pressure to draw things “correctly,” and instead learn how to consider these elements as integral shapes of the composition.

The workshop will touch on composition, perspective, simplification and massing and painting process.

Participants should bring reference photos (a cityscape) from which they will create small compositional sketches to begin an acrylic painting. The workshop will begin with a brief walkthrough of the exhibition Crescent Cityscapes.

All materials are provided and all levels welcomed.

$45 member / $50 not-yet-member

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Ben Hamburger is a painter and educator based in New Orleans, LA. Hamburger holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts from Eckerd College and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions around the country at locations including the Maryhill Museum of Art, The San Bernardino County Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh. He has led workshops and taught courses in public schools, universities, art centers, museums, correctional facilities and nonprofit organizations around the United States, as well as in Bolivia, Thailand and India. Hamburger is currently an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Art and Design at Western Carolina University, teaches painting courses at New Orleans Academy of Fine Art and leads sporadic workshops around the country.

/// Event Image: Knute Heldner, French Quarter Rooftops (Detail), 1923, Oil on canvas, Roger Houston Ogden Collection