Still Life Deep Dive with Cassie Marie Edwards

Concept

Designed for students with a basic background in painting, this workshop explores contemporary still life painting with a special focus on both setting up interesting compositions and creating paintings with meaning and emotion. Cassie shares her process of sourcing, making, lighting, and composing elements within her paintings, and guides students to create paintings that expand their idea of what still life painting can be.

Experience

Cassie teaches a variety of approaches to creating and refining compositions, choosing or creating subject matter, and imbuing meaning into their paintings. Students receive one-on-one guidance and work in small groups catered to their individual approaches and mediums to create a painting in a fun, encouraging, and experimental setting.

Skill Level

A basic foundation in your painting medium of choice (oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache or digital) is required.

Instructor

Cassie Marie Edwards is a painter and educator based in Oshkosh, WI. She holds an MFA from Northern Illinois University and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Her work plays with the boundaries between the genres of still life and portraiture, high and low art. Cassie describes making this work as a game of visual telephone - paintings of painted porcelain objects; distorted and exaggerated to the point it becomes hard to determine the animals they originally reference. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and more.