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The Lady of Shalott: Creative Composition & Design from the Old Masters

The complete 19 video course • Four months of access

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A course of creative strategies and techniques

A more creative approach to composition and design

  • The course is open-ended. You can either watch Abigail Tulis work, or paint along with her, pausing the video if you fall behind.

  • Alternatively, you could watch all of the videos in one sitting, or a few sittings, and then do your own unique composition, inspired by the strategies and techniques Tulis offers.

  • Tulis is inspired by text—in this case a poem—and then she builds out her designs from that initial inspiration. She does not work from specific photo references in her designs, but uses a variety of visual sources and references to create her own unique composition. You can and should develop your own ways of working.

  • Although Tulis uses water-based media (ink, watercolor, pen, gouache, acrylic) the same methods would work in oils. Students may use oils if they prefer, but please know that drying times for layering generally takes longer than with water-based media.

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Course curriculum

    1. Video 1

    1. Video II

    1. Video III

    1. Video IV

    1. Video V

    1. Video VI

About this course

  • $175.00
  • 19 lessons
  • 6 hours of video content

Instructor

Abigail Tulis

Instructor

Abigail Tulis is a sculptor, designer and painter making work inspired by Renaissance and Medieval forms. Her sculptures and drawings are in numerous private collections and she has executed sculptural commissions for architects and interior designers. She studied traditional figure drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy and classical architectural design at the Beaux-Art Atelier, in New York City. She has taught for the Teaching Studios of Art since 2014, both in-person and online, though she now lives in the Belgian countryside at an atelier and residence in Rooigem Castle, Brugge. Since her last solo exhibition, she is developing a monumental series of oil paintings about the Lady of Shalott. Her sculptural work has been featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, Architectural Digest, been exhibited at Booth Gallery and GCA’s 11th St. Art Gallery, and won the Stanford White Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art for a sculptural design for a house in Millbrook, Ct. Tulis is featured in the book "New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting" (2023 Monacelli/Phaidon) written by Robert Zeller, the Director of the Teaching Studios of Art®.

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