Sat, Jan 10 1pm-4pm & Fri/Sat, Jan 16-17, 10am-12pm & 1pm-4pm.
This is a three-day workshop. We will be working entirely with invented scenes employing photographic source materials for texture and climate related hints. The first day will be comprised of a lecture and demo. The following days will be focused on helping students develop their own composition and painting plan.
The workshop will offer a step by-step process that can be used to create original designs and translate real-life botanicals and natural elements into believable, but invented scenes and landscapes.
We will practice designing a landscape from our imagination using environmental and compositional motifs.
Materials:
One the first day of the workshop, only a sketchpad and pencil are necessary.
Painting surfaces: I mostly use ready made oil-primed linen or stetched surfaces 14x18 to 24x36. The size chosen is entirely up to you.
Brushes in great variety can be very helpful. You need some larger soft natural-hair or synethetic (flat and/filbert), and some smaller (1/4-1/2” flats in natural-hair or synthetic for a soft touch). lt's not advisable to use paper palettes. I recommend glass, plexiglass or wood. Solvent: Have a good-sized solvent cup with clean solvent to be able to clean your brushes quickly. I use either Gamsol or Chelsea Lavender Brush Cleaner. I recommend having some Maroger medium and a roll of paper towels, a stick of white (standard) chalk, pencils and sketch pad for working out ideas.
Palette knives: one large enough for mixing paint and a small painting knife for placing small shapes on your canvas. A plalette scraper
Oil paints: This is a slightly more limited palette than I'll normally use for studio work, but fully functional:
Titanium White (or your choice of white) Cadmium Yellow Light (or Lemon)
Indian Yellow or Transparent Orange
Permanent Red Medium (Rembrandt)
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna or Transp. Brown/Red Oxide
Alizarin Crimson of your choice
Quinacridone Violet
Ultramarine Blue
Manganese Blue Hue (Winsor & Newton)
Workshop: The Invented Landscape
After the first day of class, due to the nature of the condensed study in workshops, cancellation with pro-rate refunds will be considered but not guaranteed.