Landscape Laboratory - Structure & Disruption

This innovative workshop will be team taught by Liam Murphy-Torres and Francie Cook, both recent MFA graduates of the New York Studio School

Morning sessions run 10am-1pm and afternoon sessions run 2pm-5pm.

Mornings will feature drawing from observation and from memory. It will be a rigorous introduction to drawing from perception and to visual art-making generally. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of strategies for looking and for translating what they see into a developing graphic vocabulary. Through sustained practice working from life, students will develop new ways of seeing and understanding the visual world, and will be given new frameworks for translating that experience into drawings and paintings. Afternoons will be spent using collage and other disruptive techniques to reimagine and recombine the images from the morning session. Paintings and drawings will evolve as the week progresses in a deeply iterative process that will contain many exciting discoveries for the participants. This workshop is fantastic for beginners and those looking for a way to break old patterns and create a new body of work.

Please bring your sketching materials, charcoal and drawing paper, as well as a few blank canvases and your acrylic paints as well as any collage material you wish to bring. See a detailed materials list below the artist bio.

There will be a lunch break from 1:00pm-2:00pm. You can bring your own lunch or check out one of the local restaurants in Yarmouth.

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About the instructors:

Liam Murphy Torres is a MFA Graduate of New York Studio school. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Education

2024-Present, MFA, New York Studio School. New York, NY.

2020,2024, Mount Gretna School of Art. Mount Gretna, PA.

2023, Barnes-DeMazia Certificate, Barnes Foundation. Philadelphia, PA.

2018-2022, BFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA.

2018-2020, Intermittent Study, Art Students League of New York. New York, NY.

Francie Cook is a MFA Graduate of New York Studio school. She was born in 1997 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an emerging oil painter currently based in New York. She is best known for her intimate depictions of loved ones, all drawn or painted from direct observation. Cook’s work is guided by materiality, often incorporating elements of collage that work in tandem with paint, ink, and charcoal. Her practice is further characterized by a loose, painterly application and a strong awareness of the geometric structure of the rectangle. Francie Cook has exhibited across the United States and Europe. She holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and has studied at the New York Studio School and the Art Students League of New York. In 2025, she founded the Francis Cook Gallery in New York and Berlin.

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SUGGESTED PAINTS (in both Acrylic and Oil)

Items with asterisk (*) are REQUIRED all other materials are optional

Oil Paint (1 - 1.5 oz tubes Gamblin, Rembrandt, Winton, or any pro grade)

* Titanium White (Large Tube or 2 Tubes) * Paynes Grey

* Ultramarine Blue

* Cadmium Yellow Medium

* Cadmium Red Light

Yellow Ochre + Cadmium Orange + Magenta + Cadium Yellow Lemon

Permanent Green Light + Viridian Green + Phthalo Blue + Burnt Sienna

Alizarin Crimson

For medium:

*Refined Linseed Oil (Windsor Newton or any brand)

Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Tubes (Golden Acrylics are the best but "Basics"

Brand by Liquitex is fine and much less money) Double Primary Colors

*Titanium White (Large Tube or 2 Tubes)

*Ultramarine Blue

*Cadmium Yellow Medium

*Cadmium Red Medium

*Cadmium Yellow Light

*Quinacridone Magenta

*Phthalocyanine “Phthalo” Blue

Brushes (Robert Simmons or any durable brushes)

*Flats and Brights

1⁄2” to 1” in width Synthetic Oil Brushes

Rounds any size (I don’t use rounds but many artists like them)Palette

*Paper palette pad from Strathmore, large size 12” x 16”

Glass palette

*Metal Palette knife (I recommend more than one)

*Color Wheel (The Color Wheel Company)

*Gray Scale & Value Finder (The Color Wheel Company)

Supports

*Gesso Panels sizes 10”x10” to 16”x20” square or rectangular any depth

(Ampersand or Davinci are both good value)

*If you prefer you can purchase Gesso Stretched Canvas instead of panel

Easels

The studio will supply easels for the day.

Cleaning Supplies

*Clear Baby Oil in a covered glass container

*Cotton rags and a roll of Paper Towels

Sketching Materials

*Strathmore Bristol 300 smooth Surface 100lb any size

*White Artists Tape or Green Frog Tape

*Graphite Pencils #HB, #2B, #6B (Just bring what you have for pencils)

*Vine Charcoal, Also called Willow, softer than regular charcoal.Here are a few physical stores in our area:

Artist & Craftsmen: 540 Deering Avenue, Ptld, ME 207-772-727 Art Mart:

517 Congress Street, Portland, ME 207-775- 4244 Michaels: 490 Payne

Road, Scarborough, ME 207-883- 8419 Online Stores Include:

Dick Blick w ww.dickblick.com 877-943-9269

Cheap Joes w ww.cheapjoes.com 888-792-6089

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