Intimate Narrative Workshop: Flesh, Form and Life
Intimate Narrative Workshop: Flesh, Form and Life
2-Day In-Person Workshop: The Art of the Intimate Narrative
Hosted by Michelle Doll
Join me for an immersive two-day workshop designed for artists ready to deepen their practice and explore the profound complexities of the intimate narrative in painting. Hosted in person and in studio, this intensive experience invites you to examine the intricate interplay of human emotion, connection, and unspoken truths that form the heart of evocative and intimate storytelling in art.
Through guided exercises, live model sessions, and thought-provoking discussions, you’ll delve into the subtleties of color, composition, light, shadow, and the tension between figures and their surroundings. Together, we’ll explore how creating an intimate narrative begins with an intrepid inward journey of self-discovery and how vulnerability, duality, and the resonance of personal truth can transform a painting into a narrative that bridges the subjective and universal.
Day 1 focuses on the intellectual and emotional groundwork of creating an intimate narrative. Students will mix pallets and begin painting from the live model. It will include lectures on artists, various techniques and approaches for painting the flesh and the intimate narratives that convey the emotional context of the work. We will also discuss light, color and composition as I give a live painting demonstration. Finally, we will discuss a direct approach to painting the figure that I use to make my own professional and personal work.
Day 2 brings these ideas to life, guiding you through the process of translating introspection into your continued painting from the live model.
Space is very limited. For a personalized, hands-on experience register today at the link below…
📅Dates: February 22nd & 23rd, 10am-6pm
📍Location: Michelle Doll Studio, Hoboken, NJ
🎨Skill Level: Beginner to advanced
🏷️ Fee: $850 (includes model fee), supply list given after enrolled. Due to limited class size, payment is nonrefundable.
Reserve your spot now and take your practice to the next level.
Questions? Email me at: michelle@michelledoll.com
Intimate Narrative Workshop Series
Introduction
What is the intimate narrative?
The intimate narrative in painting refers to the deeply personal and evocative storytelling that unfolds through the artist’s depiction of human experiences, emotions, and connections. It often involves subjects that resonate on a personal level, such as familial bonds, private moments, or through the subtle inconspicuous dynamics that reverberate in spaces between figures and their surroundings.
Intimate narratives allow us to meditate on our deepest desires and experiences through a lens of vulnerability. They expose both artist and viewer to hidden worlds where subjective and objective truths unfold and provide space where opposites can coexist. Beauty can be found in ugliness and ugliness in beauty. Light and shadow, composition and palette, choice of subject and surroundings reveal truths too.
Creating an intimate narrative begins with an artist’s intrepid inward journey of self-discovery that evolves through time into contemplation of emotion, susceptibility, desire, fear and aspiration. Far more profound than superficial nudity, and more abstruse than corporeal sex, it is through these innermost personal truths that we are able to foster a deeper sense of empathy, and compassion and ultimately develop the sort of intimate relationship with ourselves that is necessary to accurately interpret and communicate the intimate narratives of our outer worlds that we wish to capture through the creative process.