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Lemons with Silver by Jacqueline Kamin,
oil, 9 x 12.
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Weekend With the Masters instructor Jacqueline Kamin paints with a sculptural sensibility that isn’t at all foreign to her practice. Earlier in her career she spent time as a bronze bust sculptor. “Working with sculpture is a lot of fun,” Kamin says. “It is very tactile and organic, but it takes a toll physically, and you aren’t responsible for the whole process unless you have your own foundry.”
Control over the process is what invigorates Kamin and continually draws her to painting, especially still lifes depicting objects that she’s collected for more than 40 years during her travels all over the world, including to Macao, China, and Korea. “Still life painting allows the artist to really control the viewers’ vision, leading them where you want them to look and making them feel like they are in another place, an intimate world,” she says.
Even though Kamin no longer sculpts as much as she used to, it was an interest that came naturally to her, and she applies its tenets to her painting process. “Painting is really closer to sculpting than anything else, even drawing,” she says. “Being able to think like a sculptor brings another dimension to your work. You really start to think in terms of form.” For Kamin, evaluating an object’s form involves focusing on texture, the space around an object, and how light falls on it.
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Petit Roses by Jacqueline Kamin,
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Like a relief sculptor, Kamin is also sensitive to the appearance of the surface of her oil paintings. “The surface is really important to me,” she observes. “If it is monotonous, it doesn’t hold your attention.” Instead, Kamin is attracted to the thick impasto surface of paint and to brushstrokes that simulate form, similar to how a relief sculptor is preoccupied with using high and low relief techniques to create dimension.
At
Weekend With the Masters, Kamin will share more on her approach to painting and the painterly solutions she’s developed during her career. The conference offers an unprecedented amount of access to the top artists you respect and admire, and the workshops give you instructional opportunities across multiple mediums, all in one place. Read through the
class descriptions and
register for your spot today. See you there!
