Join Miriam Rosenthal for this one-day oil painting workshop. Miriam will guide us through the steps to create a traditional still life study. We will be painting in oil.
Still life painting allows students to select and work with a variety of objects, explore composition and lighting, and practice creating shapes and building forms without worrying about the objects moving.
This workshop will introduce the fundamental stages of painting. Starting with the drawing then moving to local colour, big form modelling and finally first painting. Students will learn how to simplify a still life into abstract shapes in order to accurately draw the objects while using hard and soft edges and contrasting values to give it depth.
Material List
Oil Colours
- Titanium White
- Cad Yellow Med
- Yellow Ochre Light or Pale
- Cad Red Med
- Alizarin Crimson
- Raw Umber or Burnt Umber
- Burnt Sienna or Red Umber
- Ultramarine Blue
- Viridian Green
- Ivory Black or Lamp Black
Note: Purchase only Artist Grade paints. Do not use Winton or water soluble paints.
Solvent
- Odorless mineral spirits (GamSol). Turpentine is NOT permitted in the studio
Mediums
- Linseed oil
Canvas
- panel or canvas, 11″x14″ or smaller
Tools
- Palette (Select one of the following): Glass, wood or paper (Grey Matters)
- Palette knife
- 1 Medium cup (small cups with lids for holding medium or mineral spirits)
- 2 Small jars for cleaning brushes
- Rags or paper towels or shop towels
Brushes (either natural or synthetic hair)
Note: these are the minimum brush requirements – please feel free to bring more.
- 4-5 Bristle hair brushes* – ranging in size from #2 to #8
- 10-20 Soft hair brushes* – ranging in size from #2 to #12
*Filbert, rounds and square brushes are all acceptable