Alla Prima Pastries and Flowers
360 Online Weekend WS | This program has been canceled
Join us for a rare, two day, alla prima painting workshop with Gage’s celebrated atelier instructor, Juliette Aristides. Painting from colorful flowers and/or pastries, you will dive into color in this fun, fast-paced still life immersion. Painting quickly and directly teaches the student how to capture the most essential qualities of the subject, using a direct approach. Learn to create thoughtful, interesting arrangements and examine the relationships between masses of value, color and intensity in your still-life painting. Bring your own pastries to paint and try not to eat them on your way to class!
Spring quarter 2020 classes will be held online.
- STILL LIFE OBJECTS
- Bring the pastry of your choice (croissant, scone, donut, cupcake, muffin, etc.)
- Flowers will be provided
- PAINTING SUPPLIES
- -Medium or soft charcoal for sketching on your surface
- -3 small panels or canvas (approximately 10 x 14" or 16 ”x 20” for quick paintings
- (One option for painting surfaces: http://www.canvaspanels.com/)
- Be sure not to buy the clay boards, only get those designed for oil paints
- - Artist's medium such as Winsor & Newton or Oleogel (the latter can be purchased from the Natural Pigments website: http://www.naturalpigments.com/oleogel.html )
- BRUSHES
- Bring a variety of filbert and round brushes in varying sizes.
- Please also bring a small round brush, size 1 or 2 for detail work.
- PALETTE
- A hand held wooden palette is excellent, but feel free to bring your favorite. New Wave palettes are beautifully made and highly recommended: http://www.newwaveart.com/
- OTHER
- - One Tube or tub of acrylic grey paint, value number 7 (pale grey)
- - Paint Rags (cut up cotton t-shirt or industrial blue paper towels)
- PAINTS
- Please do not get student grade paints. Feel free to bring favorite tubes of paint that you enjoy as well.
- Titanium white
- Yellow ochre
- Cadmium yellow light
- Cadmium orange
- Raw umber
- Burnt umber
- English red or burnt sienna
- Cadmium red medium or light
- Permanent alizarin crimson
- Cadmium green (optional)
- Olive Green
- Ultramarine blue
- Ivory black
- Gamsol (for oil paint, Gage usually supplies)
- Easel or table top
- Paper towels
- • microphone and camera enabled computer
- • ipad or smart tablet
- • smart phone (android or IOS)
- • Strong internet connection
- Excited Attitude!