Things of God, Things of Man: The Low-Chroma Landscape: Charlie Hunter I Workshop I Oil and Pencil
Charlie Hunter’s landscape paintings capture the quiet, melancholic beauty of "rural deindustrialization" using a near-monochromatic, modified tonalist style that feels both timeless and deeply personal. His work is acclaimed for distilling complex scenes into essential, moody compositions that blend photographic realism with abstract, textural mark-making. For this workshop, each day’s class begins with a demonstration painting in which Hunter explains the decisions and choices made as the painting evolves. Students then work on their own, with an emphasis on design, mood, and finding one’s true “voice,” before all gather for lively group critique and discussion. Sketching to work out compositional challenges, use of water-mixable oils and unorthodox tools such as window washer’s squeegees, patterned paper towels, and washes of thin paint to create unique, almost photographic textures are all discussed. Experimentation and laughter is encouraged. www.charliehunter.art www.hunter-studio.com
