Summer Flowers In Oil

Weekend Workshop | This program is completed

1501 10th Ave East Seattle, WA 98102 United States

TBD

All Levels

7/27/2019-7/28/2019

9:30 AM-4:30 PM PDT on Sun Sat

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$215.00

$193.50

$10.00

We will learn how to paint beautiful flowers by first studying Fantin-Latour master works. These exercises will improve your sense of perception. We will then recreate a floral still life and paint from life. Through close observation, we will cover topics such as abstract value composition, gestural dynamics, flower shape, and flower texture.

  • Flowers and plants
  • There will be some plants and flowers in the workshop for painting purpose. If you have flowers from your garden, that’s the best, bring what you love and set it up to paint!
  • SUPPORTS
  • Bring one support that you are familiar working with or bring one gesso board or stretched canvas, no bigger than 16”x20”
  • • 9x12" Canson canva paper pad or a couple canvas paper for practice only
  • BRUSHES
  • Different brushes have different size system, so I generally look for a range of sizes like the size of a thumb, a pinky or a ring finger. Bring the brushes you have and chances are that they are enough. If you have no brushes, then get a couple small synthetic brushes in the size below
  • • #6, #8 filberts
  • • Bristle #10 or #12 filberts
  • • One small round synthetic brush
  • DRAWING MATERIALS (optional)
  • • Soft vine charcoal
  • • knead erasur
  • OIL PAINTS
  • Again, bring what you have and chances are that you have enough for this workshop. If you are beginning, buy professional-grade only - Daniel Smith Artists' Materials, Gamblin, Sennelier, Winsor & Newton, Rembrandt and Holbein are all suitable.
  • To begin, you need only a limited palette;
  • • Mixed white
  • • Yellow ochre
  • • Burnt sienna
  • • Ultramarine blue
  • Later you can add the following (optional)
  • • Cadmium yellow medium
  • • Naples yellow
  • • Cadmium red medium
  • • Quinacridone magenta (Gamblin)
  • • Raw Umber
  • • Brunt Umber
  • • Cobalt blue
  • • Sap green
  • • Viridian
  • MISCELLANEOUS
  • • Gamsol or other OMS (school provide this, no need to buy your own)
  • • Paper towels (Viva or the auto one that's blue)
  • • Small plastic garbage bag
  • • Palette cup for gamsol
  • • Palette knive for mixing (blade should be at lease one inch and bendable at the mid section
  • • Disposable palette pad or wood palette or what you have (a roll of parchman paper works too)
  • • Open mind and smile