Figure Painting
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Feb 15-19, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
Tuition: $585.00
Model Fee: $35.00
Level: INT-ADV
Status: This program is completed
This workshop will create a relaxed, inspirational, informative, yet intense working environment. The instructor will demonstrate his approach to painting the figure from life, using his direct fluid painting style with emphasis on improving color, drawing skills, value relationships, understanding edges and capturing the “feeling” of light. Learn to use the elements that make a painting successful and exciting: creative use of color and edges, visual movement, paint application, distribution of abstract shapes and strong design. Students will also learn how to use value studies, quick sketches, and a combination of photos. There will be easy-going individual instruction, critiques and group discussion. Techniques of great artists including Sargent, Zorn and Sorolla will be discussed. Be prepared to work hard, make new friends and best of all have fun.
- Oil painting (pastel accepted)
Instructor -- Romel de la Torre
A consummate artist in all media, Romel de la Torre is one of today's most highly regarded artists. His figures, landscape, portraits, and still life paintings display unparalleled technical skill, fluid style, and thorough understanding of light, color, form and design. "My painting is the world, channeled through my eyes, through the prism of my own feeling, emotions and preferences. It is a unity of the visual world and the internal, complexity and simplicity, past and present, abstraction and realism..." the artist's says. For more information about Romel and his work, please visit his website at: www.romeldelatorre.com
- Oil Paints: Cad. Yellow Lemon (Rembrandt or Winsor & Newton); Cad. Yellow Deep (Rembrandt or Winsor & Newton); Yellow Ochre (Rembrandt); Cadmium Red Medium (Rembrandt); Terra Rosa (Holbein or Winsor & Newton); Quanacridone Red or Red Rose (Gamblin or Rembrandt); Transp. Oxide Red (Rembrandt); Permanent Alizarin (Gamblin); Viridian Green (Rembrandt); Cobalt Blue Light (Rembrandt); Ultramarine Blue Deep (Rembrandt); Ivory Black (Rembrandt or Winsor & Newton); Titanium White (Sennelier or Le Franc) 200ml tubes . These are the Brands that I use. You don't necessarily have to have them. Also, you should be able to get most of these colors in large tubes.
- Brushes:
- Bristles - #2, 4, 6 (filberts); #8, 10, 12 (flat)
- Langnickel Royal Sable 5590
- #2, 4, 8, 16 (flat)
- Canvas: I use the Claessens #12 & #13(portrait) and Utrecht-Claessens (type 820) oil primed linen. Acrylic primed canvas is ok. Painting Panels can also be used. Please NO paper or cheap Canvas boards.
- Other Supplies: Palette; Palette knife (for cleaning); Odorless Turps Only; Viva Paper Towels; Turpentine cup or Brush washer ; Board and Duct tape (for those who prefer to tape a piece of canvas onto a board); Garbage bag (for your garbage)