Painting Flowers Alla Prima

local workshop | This program is completed

All Levels

8/15/2023-8/17/2023

9:00 AM-4:00 PM on Tue Wed Th

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$330.00

The goal of this workshop is to bring clarity and ease to painting flowers. A big part of floral painting is to slow down and pay close attention to the intricate transitions in color and value and to the variety of edges. Using simple compositions, Ashwini will demonstrate how to achieve these transitions on the canvas via accurate color mixing and intuitive brushwork. Ashwini will do a demo in the morning on each day and offer assistance and feedback one-on-one to all the students on their paintings in the afternoons. www.ashwinibharathula.com

  • What I listed below is my current preference for paints, brushes and painting surface for flower painting. It is based on my personal experience and what I observed and learned from other artists’ palettes. There is nothing hard and fast about these supplies and I often modify my palette as my learning about the pigments evolves over time.

    Winsor & Newton
    -Cadmium Lemon
    -Cadmium Yellow Pale

    -Cadmium Yellow

    -Cadmium Yellow Deep

    -Green Gold

    -Yellow Ochre Pale

    -Cadmium Red Light

    -Cadmium Red Medium

    -Cadmium Red Deep

    -Permanent Rose

    -Permanent Magenta

    -Permanent Alizarin Crimson

    -Terra Rosa

    -Transparent Oxide Brown

    - Ultramarine Blue Deep

     

    Utrecht

    -Phthalocyanine Green

     

    Grumbacher

    -Thalo Blue

     

    Gamblin
    -Transparent Oxide Red

    Williamsburg 

    -Titanium White

    Rembrandt
    -Viridian

     

    Michael Harding

    -Cadmium Orange

    Canvas 

    - RayMar CDP13 (Classens double primed linen adhered to Raymar’s boards) I use these for my floral paintings. If you decide to bring these, I suggest you get something small – e.g., 8” x 10”. The goal of this workshop is to work on very simple compositions, slow down and pay attention to all the value and color transitions and edge variety in the flower and render it convincingly on a 2D surface. We are NOT going to spend our time creating complex flower arrangements or still life setups in this workshop.

    Plan on bringing one panel per day of the workshop.

    -Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Pads (OP DLX) – Please note these are linen pads and NOT Centurion Linen panels. These pads have 10 or so double oil-primed linen sheets that come very handy in a workshop setting. If you choose an 11” x 14” or a 12” x 16” linen pad, for e.g., you could use a masking tape and do multiple paintings on a single page.

    Brushes   

    Buy the best quality brushes you can, no hard and fast rule on this.


    For the most part, I use the following Rosemary & Co. brushes in multiple sizes:

    ECLIPSE COMBERS

     

    SERIES 99. POINTED PURE SABLES

     

    SERIES 279. MASTERS CHOICE LONG FLATS

     

    Solvent:  Gamsol (mainly for an initial wash on the canvas and to clean my brushes)

    Paper Towels   Viva

    Easel   www.stradaeasel.com     I use the STRADA MINI with attachable side-trays. Not needed for Scottsdale Artists’ School workshops.

    Medium: I typically don’t use any medium and use paint as is from the tube unless my I am revisiting my painting after a while – then I oil out my painting with a tiny bit of linseed oil on a cloth or with a brush to bring out the sunken colors.

Ashwini Bharathula is a representational fine artist working mainly with oils. “Growing up, I loved to draw and sketch in my spare time. It was mostly Disney characters and figures from Indian mythology.” She received her formal education in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. After completing her Bachelor's degree in Madras, India near where she grew up, she moved to the US in 2005 to pursue her Master’s and PhD at Ohio State University. There she happened to audit a painting class one summer for fun and has been hooked ever since.  After getting her PhD, she worked in the semiconductor industry for a few years. “Even while working in the corporate world, I had this constant itch to paint.” She finally took the plunge and quit her industry job to explore something at the intersection of art and science. She first started a YouTube channel where she created and shared science video lessons. She then collaborated with TED-Ed (www.ed.ted.com) and helped create a few short movies that have garnered millions of views. “I also started painting more seriously around this time and eventually decided to pursue art full-time. The act of creating something realistic and beautiful from scratch brought a lot of joy to me.”

Ashwini’s art education has been primarily through workshops at the Scottsdale Artists’ School and books like Richard Schmid’s ‘ALLA PRIMA’. While she loves to paint a variety of subject matter from portraits to landscapes, her current focus is painting flowers and floral still-life arrangements. “The endless possibilities of colors, textures and compositions that I can explore with this theme is exhilarating!"