Focus on your Talent

Canvas Zoo is pleased to announce the next series of workshops led by accomplished photographer, Pierre Dutertre

at the Canvas Zoo / Menaul Art Gallery
1750 North Hercules, Clearwater FL 33765
Limited Spaces -
to RSVP Call 727-726-7411 or email Jerri@CanvasZoo.com to Reserve Your Space Today!
 
A personalized journey into achieving your existing creative potential

This 5-week journey of discovery of everyone’s potential for creating a solid body of photography work based upon a single concept is at the core of this intensive seminar. The topics explored will revolve around ideas and concepts, intent, intended outcomes, genres, techniques and their individual applications to a specific project. The review of images on a weekly basis will serve to emphasize the unity of each individual project, explorations of personal aesthetics, composition principles, post-production techniques and presentation principles, including artist statements. Other topics will also address the creative principles behind any body of work, the many genres of photographic expressions as well as creative blocks suffered by all artists and the solutions to move beyond these.

Participants should bring images in 300dpi jpg formats on a jump drive or cd for the first lecture, and be expected to produce images for the following segments, with a final assembly of photographs in a unified format at the end of the seminar.
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“From random images to projects that make visual and artistic sense”

Quite possibly, the greatest downfall of any artist, or in our case as photographers, resides in a lack of a clear direction or focus. As visual artists we are inexorably drawn to an assault of visual stimuli, usually resulting in a flurry of disconnected and under-explored images. Creating a unified body of quality work that represents a consistent exploration of a single genre or subject matter is at the crux of anyone’s ability to progress within the medium and get recognized for their efforts. Pierre Dutertre will lead you through a journey of exploration and resolve within this highly successful seminar that has been presented to the widest variety of audiences, from students at the BFA and Master’s levels, to beginning and advanced amateurs. This workshop has won a number of awards, including educator of the year in 2009, 2010 and 2012 at the local and national levels.

This workshop is an exclusive presentation in Florida as a joint venture of Menaul Art and Pierre Dutertre. It is priced at a level commensurate with our common vision of supporting and educating the local art community.