Oil Painting
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBD
Feb 21-25, 2011
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
Tuition: $635.00
Model Fee: $35.00
Level: INT-Professional
Status: This program is completed
Seeing with freshness, honesty and great clarity is a fundamental tool used to create powerful paintings. Johnson focuses on exploring these time-tested principles of painting in this inspiring workshop, which will stress the beauty of working with fresh oil paint. Johnson will teach careful observation and control of values, color and edges as a means of achieving realistic honesty in a painting, while preserving the magical and mysterious quality present in great works of art. The brush stroke itself will be emphasized as a means to depict form, achieve expressive power, and maintain a paintings freshness and life.
- The class will paint from both models and still life arrangements.
Instructor -- Robert Johnson
Robert A. Johnson received his training at the Art Students League of New York and individual instruction from master painter Lajos Markos. Johnson has participated in national juried shows sponsored by the Salmagundi Club, Knickerbocker Artists, National Watercolor Society, Oil Painters of America, National Arts for the Parks, and the Portrait Institute in New York. Johnson is the author of On Becoming a Painter, and his work is also featured in The Best of Flower Painting 2. www.robertjohnsonart.com
- Suggested Palette: (Necessary) Cadmium Lemon Cadmium Red Light; Cadmium Yellow Pale Permanent Alizarin; Yellow Ochre Pale Cobalt Violet; Indian Yellow (Windsor Newton) Ultramarine Blue; Transparent Oxide Red (Rembrandt) Cobalt Blue; Terra Rosa Viridian (Holbein); White ( Williamsburg,Gamblin or Utrecht White)- or any blend of Zinc White and ;Titanium White
- Optional colors to be kept in reserve for particular subject matter or
- effects or substituted for some of the necessary colors Naples Yellow; Burnt Sienna Deep (substitute for Transparent Oxide Red); Cadmium Scarlet (substitute for Cadmium Red Light); Manganese Violet (Utrecht) (substitute for Cobalt Violet); Raw Sienna; Cerulean Blue or Manganese Blue; Cinnabar Green (Holbein); Brilliant Rose (Old
- Holland); Permanent Rose or Rembrandt Rose; Cadmium Orange
- Painting Surface: At least three panels or canvas with non-absorbent priming. No larger than 16" x 20”
- Medium: Maroger, sun thickened linseed oil
- Solvent: Oderless mineral spirits, (Gamsol or Turpenoid )
- Brushes: A variety, which would include filbert bristles in the range from nos. 1 to 8. At least one small sable no. 0, 1, or 2. At least one soft flat (sable, badger or mongoose) no. 4 or above.
- Palette knife: Small triangular wedge shaped painting knife.
- Attitude: Humility, honesty and a capacity to be completely absorbed in seeing and painting without concern for the opinions of others.
- Optional Equipment: Painting scraper, eye shade (baseball cap or visor)