Carolin Semerjian is a Syrian Armenian artist who spent her life using painting to make sense of the world around her, influenced by the people, places, moments, and cultures she's moved through. In this class, she shares that practice with you. You'll work with oil paint to understand how colour, light, and shadow can carry emotional weight, not merely as technical elements but as choices that give a painting its feeling and meaning. Carolin draws on the tradition of dramatic light and shadow to show how layering darkness and light can bring depth and hope to a composition, and how the tension between warm and cool tones shapes what a viewer feels when they stand in front of your work. The class is taught in Arabic and is designed for painters with some experience who want to develop a more intentional, expressive approach to their practice.
Understand how art can serve as a tool for resilience and self-expression, particularly in times of hardship.
Explore dramatic light-and-shadow techniques in a contemporary context and learn how layered colour can reveal light and positivity beneath darkness.
Examine how the dialogue between warm and cool tones, along with the use of white, shapes emotion, balance, and depth within a composition.
Develop the ability to layer meaning through intentional artistic choices.