Interpretive Landacape Painting

The theme for the workshop is learning to interpret photo reference to develop your own creative landscape painting style. The hands-on part of the workshop will focus on the painting process. This includes preparing the surface, drawing the image, blocking in and adjustments to the initial block-in that leads to final completion. I will, however, show how I went from the initial photograph to a design concept that directs the development of the painting. We will work with two references. I will be providing the reference photos.  The paintings may need to be finished at home because of the need to have the paint dry for a final finish adjustment. Although I will work in oil, students can use other media such as acrylic paint or pastel assuming they are already familiar with the media.

The materials needed are a listed below:

1.      Table top easel

2.       Two 11” x 14” canvas paper, canvas board or stretched canvas. A couple of other canvas surface to do some experimenting on. Board, paper or stretched canvas.

3.      Three to four brush sizes from about 1”, ¾”, ½”and ¼” wide. They should be long handle. Brush shapes come in Flat, Bright and Filbert. Any of these brush shapes are fine. I can explain more about that in the workshop.

4.      Paint color include:

a.      Yellow light or medium

b.     Yellow Ochre

c.      Burnt Sienna

d.     Alizarin Crimson

e.      Ultramarine blue

f.        Sap, Hookers or viridian green

g.      Phthalo Blue if you have it

h.      Titanium White

5.      Low order Solvent such as Gamsol for oil paint

6.      Fast drying medium such as Liquin, Galkyd get, Galkyd light

7.      Small container for the solvent

8.      Palette to mix paint on. Paper, wood or glass palette. I will be working on a 12” x 16” palette. I will show you a mixing system based on the 12” x 16” palette. If you don’t have this I will bring material to create a palette in this dimension to class. If you work in acrylic you need a paper palette.

9.      Pencil for drawing on the canvas. I softer pencil (4 to 8b) is better, but a no. 2 pencil will work. If you use charcoal , that can work as well. Kneaded eraser.

10.  A small simple sketch book for sketches and notes.

11. If you have a role of tape, bring it. I will have some also.

Each day we will start at 10 am and end at 4 pm with on hour for lunch