The Spark of Painting: Workshop with Joshua Elias

A not-for-profit visual arts organization since 1960, The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) provides a visual arts education to Highland Park and its surrounding communities, assuring access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. This vigorous community-centered organization inspires everyone from tots through seniors to achieve and transform their world through more than 400 art classes offered annually in photography, oil and acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media painting, ceramics, jewelry making, metalsmithing, digital arts, fiber art, mosaics, assemblage and more. TAC also brings national and regional art of established and emerging artists to our galleries through 20 exhibits of contemporary art each year to the surrounding community and Chicagoland area.TAC MissionThe Art Center Highland Park (TAC) is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to education in the contemporary visual arts through classes, outreach programs, gallery exhibitions and events. TAC is a community- based organization whose goal is to ensure access to the arts for all ages and cultural interests. The Art Center Highland Park is an Illinois 501 (c)3 not for profit organization.

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Join Featured famil-E Artist Joshua Elias for a workshop designed to inspire the artist to be exceptional, fueling them with the fundamental

Workshops with Guest Artists

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Students can expect to be actively painting throughout the workshop, while Joshua covers the principles of composition, line, color, subject, objective, scale, tone, and vibration. There will be additional discussion of oil versus acrylic as a medium, shapes in the physical universe, and color mixing. Joshua will also share his thoughts on foundation as the spark for content for resonance, pictorial tension, drama and harmony, earth, ground, and sky as clarified by Da Vinci, and understanding the painting as object. Depth in painting comes with a lightness and a sense of play and humor!SuppliesPlease bring a notebook dedicated to being a better artist and painter.all other materials will be provided by The Art Center Highland ParkJoshua Elias (b. Chicago Illinois 1957) a Los Angeles based abstract artist, at the forefront of a painterly kinetic abstraction, alluding to an internal and eternal figurative and imagined landscapes. Joshua Elias has a powerful command of color, design and imagery within his works. He exhibits in Los Angeles as well as internationally. He will be exhibiting in the <a href="https://theartcenterhp.org/exhibitionsh/up-next/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">famil-E</a> exhibition, along with Joyce Elias and Sheila Elias, for the first time on JUNE 17-JULY 30 at the Art Center Highland Park.All students must be vaccinated and wear masks throughout their visit to The Art Center.

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