- Teacher: Tina Kraft
- Class Length: 4 Days
- Date: June 17 – 20
- Time: 10:00 – 4:00 pm
- Materials fee $25 – included in price
Constructing a Painting with Color & Shape:
In the Landscape
Great paintings throughout history have embodied the powerful use of color and shape to communicate memorable images. Our focus will be to find new ways of using color and organizing shapes to create more pictorially interesting paintings. Strategies in color mixing and strengthening the composition are of major importance in this workshop. Master paintings will be worked from directly to deepen our understanding of the elements utilized in great paintings and ways in which we can incorporate some of these possibilities in our own paintings. We will work in the studio and outdoors, locations to be determined, for the duration of the workshop.
This is an IN-PERSON adult class.
Materials
Outdoor easel and umbrella
Glass or wood palette to accommodate your easel
Assorted variety and sizes of brushes
Palette knives: finger-like with a bent shaft for mixing and tapered angled metal head for painting
Assorted sizes of stretched canvas panels or primed paper
Drawing board or stiff cardboard if working on paper or unstretched canvases
Odorless mineral spirits with containers for holding clean and dirty spirits
Cotton rags or Viva paper towels (rag-like)
Ruler
White artist tape
Sketch pad for drawing studies
Notebook for note taking
Pencil and eraser for drawing
Paints: Option 1
- Bring what you have
Paints: Option 2
- Limited range: 2 different yellows, 2 different reds, 2 different blues, 2 different greens & 1 white & black
Paints: Option 3
- Titanium white *150ml
- Flake White*150m
- Naples Yellow
- Cadmium Lemon Yellow
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Light
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Quinacridone Rose (red)
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Alizarin Crimson
- Caput Mortuum (similar color to mars violet)
- Dioxazine Violet
- Ultramarine Blue
- Indigo or Prussian Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Viridian
- Cadmium Green
- Terre Vert
- Raw Umber
- Indian Red
- Burnt Sienna
- Ivory Black
- Peach Black
