Online Courses 2023/24
All course tuition is on a sliding scale, students are expected to make a monthly contribution that is significant for them. Sliding Scale explanation and suggestions are available from Laura Summer: laurasummer@taconic.net
New Classes start in September
All times are New York time
Wednesdays:
8:30am Color Dynamics
12 weeks- 12 zoom calls - 6 pdf lessons zoom calls every week
10am Color Composition, Contemplation
12 weeks – 12 zoom calls – 6 pdf lessons zoom calls every week
This class can be continued in 2024
11:30 am Painting and Drawing to investigate the Apocalypse or Revelation of John
The last book of the Bible
In this class we will look at the pictures of this text by drawing and painting. As supplementary text we will use Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the Apocalypse This class will continue in 2024
2pm Experience Autumn in the Plant World
September 20-October 25
5 weeks – 6 zoom calls – 5 lessons
zoom calls every week
2pm Experience Advent by Drawing and Painting
November 15 – December 13
5 weeks – 6 zoom calls – 5 pdf lessons zoom calls every week
7:30pm Color Dynamics
12 weeks- 12 zoom calls - 6 pdf lessons zoom calls every week
Fridays once a month: Cold Wax
Tuesdays once a month: working artistically with the Mantra of the School for Spiritual Science
As well as these some previously given courses are available this year without zoom calls. If you want to take one of these courses you will be sent it in pdf form, some with video demonstrations. This can also work if the times offered for zoom calls don’t work for you.
All of these courses work with the subject by drawing and painting.
Sliding scale $0-300
Rudolf Steiner’s sketches for painters ( Nature Moods)
Rudolf Steiner’s Genesis lectures
The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner
The Gospel of John
The Calendar of the Soul
Plants and Landscapes
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on Color
Image Colors
Course Descriptions:
Color, Composition, Contemplation
This course will help you learn what color feels like. Each lesson has a color component - one color at a time, a composition exercise in black-and-white and a contemplation exercise using poems by various poets. Some people have been involved with this course in autumn 2022 but January 2023 is designed as a time where new people can join. Painting is done at home in your own time and we meet once a week on zoom to share work and discuss questions.
Color Dynamic
Color Dynamic is an investigation of how colors move and exist in relation to each other. We will begin our investigation with afterimages, then a technical color wheel, complementary colors , and color perspective/dynamic. We will use what we have learned here to create a layered watercolor painting called an interval study. These exercises are somewhat more technical than the exercises in the Color, Composition, Contemplation course.
Painting and Drawing to investigate the Apocalypse or Revelation of John
The last book of the Bible
In this class we will look at the pictures of this text by drawing and painting. As supplementary text we will use Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the Apocalypse
This class will continue in 2024. This is an experimental way of studying a profound text.
Experience Autumn in the Plant World
In this course we will work with gestures in the world of plants. We will use many media including ink, watercolor, pastel, pencil and crayon. This course will include written instruction in pdf form as well as weekly group calls with participants from all over the world. Through this creative work a supportive transcultural community will be formed. Often in a group, working together, we can feel inspiration and understanding flow between us.
Students should expect to spend at least one hour per week on this work in addition to the weekly zoom call where we will share work, ask questions and make comments on our process of learning together.
Cold Wax – an introduction
This course is based on a 5 day course “Colors and Gestures of the Plant World – a workshop using Cold Wax”, that I taught in June 2022. The lessons are laid out as the course was given with the 5th day being finishing up and reviewing. The course includes a monthly zoom gathering with anyone who is exploring the medium of cold wax. You can join the course at any time. Zoom calls are held on third Fridays of every month at 1pm NY time.
Below are courses without Zoom calls
Rudolf Steiner’s Color Lectures
In this course we paint the exercises in the three color lectures given May 6-8, 1921.
Online: https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA291/English/RSPC1935/Colour_index.html
Audio: http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/colourCW291/colourcw291.html
Purchase: https://steinerbooks.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781855840850/Colour
Rudolf Steiner’s sketches for painters ( Nature Moods)
For each sketch I provide a number of exercises. Some are obviously directly related to the colors of the sketch, some are more investigations, some are concerned with movement or gesture. If you do all of them you should gain an overall understanding of what is happening in that sketch. For each sketch I have also suggested a word gathering exercise. This will help you enter into the realm of translating from color and form to word. Color could also be translated into music or movement and an exercise for that could be developed by a musician or movement specialist.
Rudolf Steiner’s Genesis lectures
Using Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on Genesis you will try to paint these images, exercises will be given but also free work is encouraged.
The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner
An exploration of this book by painting and drawing
The Gospel of John
based on my exercises in book form
The Calendar of the Soul
based on my exercises in book form
Plants and Landscapes
An observation through painting and drawing
Image Colors
An exploration of what Rudolf Steiner calls image colors - Black, White, Green and Incarnadine
Laura Summer