Painting the Seasonal Still Life
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBD
Nov 29-Dec 3, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
Tuition: $635.00
Level: BEG-ADV
Status: This program is completed
This workshop will focus on Impressionistic painting. Among the set-ups will be all-white flowers, also pairing roses with evergreens, amaryllis with ribbons. Emphasis will be on the basic concepts of composition and the importance of transparent color lay-in. Also covered will be the effective use of light and value to create vivid and lively paintings, as well as how to use soft and hard edges in and around the focal point.
Instructor -- Hedi Moran
Hedi Moran studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles and the Scottsdale Artists’ School. Noted for her rich and lively colors as well as freshness and spontaneity, her still life paintings have won numerous awards. Her work has been featured in The Best of Flower Painting, Art of the West, Focus Santa Fe, and Kunst for Alle, a leading Scandinavian art magazine. She is represented by El Presidio Gallery in Tucson, Christina Gallery in Martha’s Vineyard, and the New Masters Gallery in Carmel.
- COLORS: Titanium White; Winsor-Newton Indian Yellow (T); Cadmium Lemon; Cadmium Yellow Light; Cadmium Orange; Cadmium Red Light or Cadmium Scarlet; Alizarin Crimson (T); Permanent Rose (T); Winsor Violet (T); Ultramarine Blue (T); Sap Green (T); Viridian; Indigo (T); Ice Blue (Shiva); Transparent Red Oxide (Rembrandt) (T)
- **Any other colors you are used to painting with.**
- “T” = transparent colors
- CANVAS: I like to put a coat of gesso on my cotton canvas- I tint my gesso with a little black acrylic to make a mid value gray.
- Any size up to 20" x 24"
- BRUSHES: Whatever kind of brushes you like. I use soft bristle, synthetic sables and filberts.
- Scottsdale Artists' School requires ODORLESS turpenoid