Spend some time learning more about color, tone, values and various applications.
Approaches I'll be guiding you through:
- Choosing and mixing colors for your painting: Through careful looking and experimentation we will investigate intensity, opacity, translucency and tonal variations. Setting up your palette and making multiple variations (which can happen pretty quickly) before heading to the canvas.
- Starting with thinner washes and layers, building up to thicker paint and glazes.
- Ways to get one color area to transition to the next and why some combinations are more agreeable than others - and the workarounds.
- Experimenting with various ways to handle a brush; amounts of pressure, directional strokes and types of brushes for various effects.
Participants may choose from one of the references to work from. I will have them printed out and you can also load the image onto your ipad. We'll work to achieve particular colors, stokes and transitions etc - skills and knowledge you can apply to any of your paintings, including abstraction, moving forward. I chose these particular pieces for the variety of color and challenges to explore.
What to bring:
Oil paint
- Bring as many paints as possible. Below is a good basic list but bring more or just what you have.
- Winsor & Newton Winton paints are good or other brands.
- Alizarin crimson, Titanium white, Gold ochre, Cadmium barium yellow Cadmium orange hue, Diozonine purple, Ultramarine blue or Cobalt, Red, Cerulean blue, Payne's gray, Burnt umber, Raw umber, Ivory black, Magenta, Naples yellow hue, Pthalo green, Viridian green, Sap green, Cadmium yellow pale hue, Pthalo green-blue and Cadmium Orange Hue.
Brushes - Some Sable or similar and Hog Hair - round, bright, flat and filbert in various sizes. Bring a wash brush. Bring a mop brush too, if available.
Canvas - two or three canvasses 11x14 or 16x20
Bring a lunch or snack if you like
Odorless Mineral Spirits and linseed oil provided
Directions:
The Bonny Studio
580 W. Arapaho Rd. #262 Richardson, TX. 75080
In The Camelot Shopping Center
We're in the Camelot Shopping Center between Custer and Hampshire on Arapaho. Come in at the Camelot Shopping Center sign - at the Donut store - keeping the Donut store on your right. We're in a few stores on your right. You'll see signs on the windows that say The Encaustic Center and The Bonny Studio, next door to one another.
