PETER’S ABSTRACT STUDIO SESSIONS

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Welcome to PETER’S ABSTRACT STUDIO SESSIONS, an open invitation to art lovers who would like to spend some time in a studio-focused, daily intense painting session with a painter with over three decades of studio experience. Located less than 2 hours from NYC, my building is an ideal setting for concentrated studio time. Visitors can enjoy exploring this beautiful Upper Delaware Region and then work with me in my studio on their own drawings and paintings in space and on materials I provide. I can have from 1 to 4 artists per visit, with each Session lasting 3 or 6 hours. Each artist will have their own ample personal painting wall space in my studio, and we will work together on whatever we want to paint. I’m happy to give any level of instruction, or just share observations, approaches to painting, concepts about painting, and share in any way. I invite you to explore my website to see the work that I’ve done and learn a little more about me, and scroll down and read some of my ideas with the studio time, and see the calendar and my pricing schedule for visiting artists.

Studio Sessions will focus on many things, much of which will be determined when we begin working with each other. It’s all about SEEING, not necessarily ‘knowing’. There are some very practical goals in any studio painting practice. Here are some introductory ideas to get the mind moving:

1 - How to begin a painting. How to take sketched concepts to a larger scale.

2 - Working out scale, perspective, picture narrative, composition in charcoal.

3 - How to go from charcoal preliminary sketching into painting. Even though painting is an intuitive process, there are concrete ways of beginning filling the painting with forms and initial composition managing small and large movements.

4 - Considering the relative values in a painting and making selections of deduction or addition.

5 - Understanding the tensions that exist in painting and considering ways to soften or enhance them.

6 - How and why to make choices in the process of painting, considering the conflict between what the artist set out to do and what the painting demands.

7 - Paintings are just a series of proposed visual solutions to manufactured problems. It is important to find challenging problems in the picture to try and solve in ways that both close them and leave them open.

8 - How does a painter deal with a potential viewer? What sort of dialogue is this? How do solutions in a painting refer back to the artist or forward to the viewer?

9 - Understanding the difference between painting space and viewing space and how this can affect choices in the painting.

10 - How to identify patterns in your own painting, and in your approaches to painting. How to develop your own visual vocabulary.

11 - “Killing your darlings” and why this is so critical for growth in painting.

What I offer:

For your visit I offer an intensive studio painting session for either 3 or 6 hours for between 1 and 4 artists.

For the Studio Sessions I will provide large pieces of watercolor paper mounted on the wall, with the use of acrylic paints, brushes, charcoal, etc. Artists are welcome to bring any supplies of their own, just let me know what you plan to use so I can facilitate. Also, if necessary, arrangements can be made to store for a while or ship the finished paintings to you after your visit.

I provide coffee and snacks.

PRICING SCHEDULE:

Studio Sessions are 3 or 6 hours long and start between 10 AM and Noon.

One Artist: 3 Hours: $100; 6 Hours: $200

Two Artists: 3 Hours: $200; 6 Hours: $400

Three Artists: 3 Hours: $300; 6 Hours: $500

Four Artists: 3 Hours: $400; 6 Hours: $600

*For groups of 2 or more kids paint for free.

*Please email me for Studio Session availability and scheduling at peter@petermaslow.com.

Please Note:

Studio Sessions for larger groups are available but space is limited for large scale painting.
Studio sessions lasting more than one day can be negotiated at a scale cost for extended visits.
Price includes one sheet of heavy weight, cold pressed watercolor paper cut from a roll, approx 30” H x 40” L (or larger), several sticks of vine charcoal, and a reasonable supply of good student grade acrylic paint, plus the use of various size brushes.

Payments can be made with Venmo (or Paypal): Peter Maslow @petermaslow

For International artists, other payment arrangements can be made.

Reservations can be made up to 3 months in advance, and is fully refundable up to 7 Days in advance of the Reservation. Full payment is due at the time of making the Reservation.

Vacations with multiple studio sessions are available:

If you have the time you could stay for longer periods. Half of my building is my Art Studio, and the other half is a 5 Star rated 3 Bedroom luxury airbnb rental apartment. The apartment rental would be booked through airbnb, the studio sessions would be paid via Venmo (as above). Please contact me for more information.

Below are pictures of studios I had throughout New York City (and some in Europe) from 1995 to today.