Painting Matisse, Bonnard, and Van Gogh in Acrylics
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBD
Oct 6-8, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Wed Th Fri
Tuition: $350.00
Level: All Levels
Status: This program is completed
Glory in the luxurious, bold colors and complex designs that characterize the works of the modernist painters Matisse, Bonnard and Van Gogh. In this workshop, we explore exciting color combinations, design, and a variety of subject matter as we play the coloristic game with acrylics. Betsy will supply the images or you can incorporate and work from your own photographs. One day, we will work from a model. Get excited! Express yourself in a vibrant atmosphere of scintillating surface design and intriguing color. Paint Matisse! Paint Bonnard! Paint Van Gogh!
- Daily demonstrations
- Brief lectures
- Individual critiques
Instructor -- Betsy Dillard Stroud
Betsy Dillard Stroud, AWS D. F. NWS, is a nationally acclaimed artist with signatures in many prestigious organizations, including the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society in which she is also a Dolphin Fellow. An active and popular workshop instructor since 1987, Stroud has taught nationally and internationally and has judged over fifty international, national, regional, and state exhibitions. Stroud is also the author of the books: Painting from the Inside Out and The Artists Muse: Unlock the Door to Your Creativity.
- You'll need: three to five sheets of cold pressed watercolor paper, full sheets please, with a support measuring 31 x 23. Please. No painting on tables.
- a palette for your acrylics and a few lean cuisine or foam core containers to mix gesso, matte medium, and color in.
- Pigments: both fluid and tube
- Suggested colors:* Fluids: quinacridones magenta, crimson, nickel azo gold, phthalo turquoise; phthalo blue; hanza yellow, ultramarine, dioxazine purple and at least one interference pigment or iridescent. Try gold, silver, or copper.
- Tubes: medium magenta; cadmium yellow light (and/or medium) cerulean; napthol red; ultramarine, naples yellow; permanent green light; neutral gray (look for the gray in Liquitex or Lascaux.) Any other unusual colors you would like to try. Colors that have white in them are great for these exercises.
- Fluid White Gesso
- Fluid Black Gesso (a small bottle)
- fluid Matte Medium
- a selection of colored pencils and a 2 B pencil
- 2 big water containers
- a jar of soft matte gel medium
- IMPORTANT: photographs of your own and pictures from magazines of interiors, figures, clothed or unclothed, patterns you like, etc. I will have materials for you to work from, but I would like you to have your own supply (graveyard) examples to use in these paintings along with what I have.
- Brushes: You'll need several good brushes to paint with. Please: No hardware brushes. They will shed in your painting. Bring synthetic brushes in round and flat or various sizes, including a big brush of at least 2 inches.
- A sponge applicator
- Soft linoleum stamps made by Speedball or Staedler or Daniel Smith and a linoleum carver. This material is soft on both sides and easy to cut. You may also bring other items to imprint with.
- A notebook to take notes in
- A medium sized watercolor sketch book to do exercises in and try out colors.
- Some soft moulding paste
- When selecting your pigments, my list is just a suggestion to get you started. By all means, bring more pigments, if you like, and colors that aren't on the list.
- Bring your own hairdryer, your own alcohol, your own soap, your own windex bottle to use to wash your palettes and brushes. I suggest comet and a scrubber to keep your stamps clean.