Intermediate Expressive Figure Painting: Color & Composition
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Learn to build strong and more complex color compositions in your Expressive Figure paintings. This class looks toward Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn’s figure paintings where color, shape, line and pattern are used to create Modernist compositions. Color is the driving force to balance, activate and flatten your paintings while working directly from a live model. Expressive paint application is also emphasized in this class. One main canvas is developed over the course of this 5-week course. Oil or Acrylic Paint. Intermediate to Advanced painting experience.
- FOR THE FIRST CLASS MEETING ON JAN 16, please bring the following:
- • One smaller canvas (minimum size of 18x24”) to use for a painting sketch. This canvas will also become your homework.
- • Paints (oil or acrylic)
- • Brushes, mediums, rags, paper towels, vine charcoal, palette, palette knife, palette scraper
- • I highly recommend a sketchbook (9x12 is a good size) for note-taking and sketching.
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- SUPPLY LIST
- CANVAS
- • 1 SMALLER CANVAS FOR a Painting Sketch (bring one for the first class meeting). Minimum size: 18x24”, you may bring larger if you like. Please, no square shapes, only rectangles.
- • 1 larger canvas: minimum size: 24x36” (various ratios are OK, but please bring a canvas around these dimensions and no square shapes) It’s a good idea to lightly sand pre-primed canvas to smooth the surface a little.
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- PAINT: Please have the following requested colors (color names vary according to brand)
- • OIL COLOR NAMES:
- o Titanium White
- o Zinc White
- o Mars or Ivory Black (optional)
- o Yellow Ochre
- o Raw Umber
- o Hansa Yellow Light
- o Hansa Yellow Medium or Deep
- o Permanent Orange (optional)
- o Permanent Red (or) Organic Vermillion (or) Napthol
- o Alizarin Crimson
- o Chromium Green Oxide
- o Sap Green
- o Phthalo Green
- o Ultramarine Blue
- o Phthalo Blue
- o Dioxazine Violet (or) Violet (or) Carbazole Violet
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- • ACRYLIC COLOR NAMES:
- o Titanium White
- o Zinc White
- o Mars or Ivory Black (optional)
- o Yellow Ochre
- o Raw Umber
- o primary yellow (series 2) / or Hansa Yellow Opaque (series 4)
- o Hansa yellow medium
- o Pyrrole Orange (optional)
- o Napthol Red Light (or) Cad Red Light (or) Pyroll Red Light
- o Alizarin crimson
- o Chromium Oxide Green
- o Sap Green Hue or Jenkins Green
- o Viridian Green Hue (optional)
- o Pthalo Green
- o Ultramarine blue
- o Pthalo Blue
- o Ultramarine Violet (optional)
- o Dioxazine purple
- BRUSHES:
- HOG HAIR BRISTLE RECOMMENDED (variety of sizes, rounds/filberts/flats) –Stiff brushes (not soft synthetic) are best for this class.
- • Have at least TWO SIZES of each type of brush (HOG BRISTLE PLEASE) FILBERT / ROUND / FLAT (large and small, such as a #8 or #10 and a #4 or #2)
- • At least one 2 inch “chip brush”. These are inexpensive hog bristle flat and thin brushes found at art stores and hardware stores.
- PAINTING TOOLS:
- • 1 PAINTING PALETTE KNIFE: I recommend the medium sized diamond shape.
- • 1 SCRAPER for cleaning your palette
- • 1 PAINTING PALETTE: glass, Plexiglas or paper–a good-sized one please (14?X20? or larger is good).
- • Acrylic painters—I highly recommend the “Stay Wet” palette to keep paints moist
- • PAPER TOWELS (I recommend “Bounty” or “Viva”)
- • Cotton rags (cut small pieces from a cotton t-shirt)
- • PLASTIC BAG to hold used paper towels while you’re painting is helpful.
- • Vine Charcoal (medium to large size is best)
- • OIL PAINTERS: 1 CONTAINER FOR SOLVENT –GAGE provides oil paint solvent, GAMSOL. Bring a small jar with lid to contain oil paint solvent fumes.
- • OIL PAINTERS: if you’d like to use a FAST DRYING MEDIUM, Gage allows only one brand, M. Graham Walnut/Alkyd Medium”. The smallest container is plenty since it’s used sparingly.
- • OIL PAINTERS: For a TRADITIONAL MEDIUM, you may like to bring a small container of a 50/50 mix of GAMSOL and Linseed Oil. Use the small plastic squeeze bottles (with a long tip) found in art supply stores.
- • ACRYLIC PAINTERS: 1 or 2 containers for Water (I recommend using two). Plastic one quart containers (like from yogurt) work well.
- • ACRYLIC PAINTERS: I recommend you have a Matte Medium to thin paint and/or RETARDER or GLAZING medium to EXTEND THE DRYING TIME of your paints–and have a SPRAY BOTTLE to keep paints wet.
- MISC: I highly recommend a sketchbook (9x12 is a good size) for note-taking and sketching.