Tuesday–Thursday, 10am–4pm
July 29–31
Non–Member: $500
Member: $450
includes model fee
Be prepared to squint, step back and use your big brushes or pastel sticks!
In this course, through the use of direct observation by painting and drawing live models, you will learn fundamental approaches to capturing correct proportions, convincing gestures and realistic effects of light and shadow through the use of tone, color temperature and developing comparative drawing skills.
Another focus will be using oil, acrylic or pastels to impart a sculptural appearance to the forms represented using these mediums to impart greater solidity and expressive potential by using thinker paint, accentuated planes changes in the form and a freer and more gestural approach to painting the human figure.
We will focus on these key principles to see how they are all interconnected and play vital roles in breathing life into our work. This course is designed for painters who are at all levels of development with personalized instruction geared to the level of each individual.
This course will consist primarily of shorter and more gestural paintings of live models, beginning with two hour poses during the first two days and then moving on to one hour poses during the remainder of the workshop.
There will be instructor demonstrations, image presentations and extensive one on one instruction designed to meet each student at their level of artistic development.
We will work for five hours each day, 10am-4pm with an hour for lunch at noon.
PLEASE NOTE: The AAN’s Painting studio is equipped with easels and glass top carts for palette use and daily personal storage. Due to this studio’s evening classes in a variety of media, please be prepared to leave your cart and easel clean, store work in progress in drying racks provided, and transport your supplies to and from the studio each day. Storing unused paint in a plastic palette bin is suggested. Thank you in advanced for your consideration.
Oil Paints
Please buy good quality paints; such as Utrecht, Winsor & Newton, Williamsburg, Michael Harding, Blue Mountain, Holbein, Blockx or similar.
Please bring these colors as well as any additional colors which you like:
Large Tube Titanium White
Studio sized tubes 35-45 ML
Cadmium Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Light
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Burnt Sienna
Viridian Green
Chrome Oxide Green
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Various Art Supplies
A small jar with a tight fitting screw on lid for holding your turps.
Disposable paper palette
Medium sized metal trowel shaped palette knife
Sketchbook approx. 9x 12 inches or smaller
HB or 2B pencil
Kneaded eraser
Paint Brushes with long handles (for oil Painting);
sizes #2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Natural Bristle Filberts and a #1 or #2 round and a 2″ Natural Bristle House Painting Brush
Roll of paper towels for cleaning brushes
Plastic or wood palette box. There are plastic ones which are airtight and will keep your paints wet longer. mastersonart.com/products/artist-palette-seal
Viewfinder- This can be the plastic frame from an old slide, or two right angle corners of matt board (6 inches) held together with paper clips, or an art store purchased viewfinder such as this his deluxe viewfinder. jerrysartarama.com/davinci-artist-viewfinder
Canvas Panels
Please bring an assortment of different-sized panels; the sizes are listed here; 3-4 of the small sizes and 4 of the larger sizes
8 x 10 inches
9 x 12 inches
11 x 14 inches
12 x 16 inches
14 x 18 …or larger, if you prefer
I recommend Raymar panels because they’re ultra-light and have a nice painting surface.
