Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien

Fridays, January 8, February 12, March 12 and April 9 (Second Fridays of the month), 1 to 3 pm

Online via Zoom

This class at the Farnsworth Art Museum, for experienced painters that want to increase their skillset, offers four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months. These will include demonstrations, lectures, an online forum, discussion, and critiques! The projects will begin with palette management and color mixing exercises and progress through a series of color-related painting problems. The work of master painters, Joseph Albers, Johannes Itten, and Anders Zorn will be referenced, examined, and incorporated in our study. If you want to improve your control and understanding of form, composition, structure, color, and color mixing–this is the course for you. The Forum meets the 2nd Friday of each month, January through April.

Artist Robert Pollien earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Robert has received support from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation, the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. He has also been awarded the Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for painting. Pollien’s paintings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. He is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, the Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor, Maine and Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

Cost: $180; $144 members