Instructor: Bill Papaleo
Monday - Friday
August 19 - 23
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

Painting the figure in light opens students' vision to the myriad but subtle color changes that create the human body. We will also explore the rhythmic relationship of form, the interconnectedness of the body’s lines and rhythms, in itself and as it relates to its environment. This helps us see more clearly and produce a more alive and natural work. In the tradition of the “mud head” of Charles Hawthorne, students may work with brushes and palette knives to master the sense of sculpting with color. Students will open their eyes to a greater range of color and see how it relates to form. This will expand their technique without limiting their individual expression.

This course is open to beginners and all levels of students. Often students prefer to use oils but may decide to use watercolor or pastels.

William Papaleo has been painting and working with light, color, and atmosphere for 40 years. He first started with Henry Henche at the Cape school of Art and Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League, New York. He is an American artist who has lived and worked in Italy for thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe at the PAN Museum in Naples Italy, the Iamla museum in Los Angeles, and the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury Connecticut. He has received various awards in international and juried shows in Italy and America. Recently he presented 30 works at the New Rochelle Rotonda Gallery. His drawings for his public sculpture in Waterbury Connecticut are in the permanent collection of the Mattatuck Museum. In Santa Monica, California at the MRT, he presented a series of large landscapes for the preservation of the Great Native American Trail. At Sindin Galleries in New York, 1994 he was presented with a group of emerging artists to show with Picasso, Matisse and Diego Rivera. In the past few years in Naples and Salerno, Italy there have been large exhibitions dedicated to art and immigration.  Recently, in New York, there was a large retrospective at the Westchester Italian Cultural Center (2015) and at the John D. Calandra Institute in Manhattan (2017).  In 2016 at the Municipio Castle in Naples Italy he was invited to have a large retrospective show. Presently he is being represented by the KTTC Workshop in Connecticut and LAHA gallery in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He has exhibited with La Lupa Italian Arts foundation in Los Angeles and the Museo Citta.’