Beginners Oil Painting Workshop with Sue Foster
September 26-28, 2014 9:30 AM – 4 PM
In this fun, friendly workshop we will enjoy exploring all of the equipment needed for oil painting, how to use and care for that equipment and how to get the look you are desiring in your paintings. Various types of brushes and brushwork, paint handling, types of canvas, different mediums and when to use them, and how to light and make objects appear to have depth, will all be covered in a light, stress-free environment. Some simple color charts will be done, and yes, most importantly, there will be coffee and cookies.
If you already own painting supplies, please bring them with you, and we will see what , if anything, you may need to get. Don’t buy new equipment until I look at it. I will have supplies for you to use until then, as we all know how costly the initial layout is for new painters! The things I’m listing here are for new painters only, to get them off on the right foot, and are the minimum required.
Do not bring any solvents of any kind, as the Atelier will not allow any other than Gamsol, which I will provide as needed
Materials List:
Wooden palette or Grey Matters paper palette ( no white paper) 12X 16
small palette cups or jars for medium
4 Centurion Oil Primed Linen Panels 8 x10 or a pad of the linen sheets of the same brand, that size or larger
Brushes:
Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 good quality bristol brushes such as Silver Brush’s Grand Prix line, Rosemary and Co., or Robert Simons, one each of flats and filberts in the listed sizes
A painting knife 1 inch blade, tear-drop shaped
Paints in Artist Grade only: Gamblin, Rembrandt or Winsor Newton
Lemon Yellow or Cad Lemon
Cadmium Yellow light
Cadmium Red Light or Winsor red
Alizarin Crimson Permanent or Rose Madder
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue Deep
Transparent Red Oxide by Rembrandt or Transparent Earth Red by Gamblin (other brands are too light)
Yellow Ochre
Large tube of Titanium white, Artist grade
Paper Towels
Lunch
(Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided)
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