Date: Saturday - Sunday, Jan. 28 & 29, 2023
Time: 10-1pm, 2-5pm, 1 hour lunch break
Cost: $400.00
Learn to take your paintings to the next level in terms of composition, mark making, color harmony, and texture. Rich painterly brushwork, dynamic color temperature relationships and experienced decision making will allow your work to stand out among the crowd.
Let’s take a deep dive in choosing how to manipulate and interpret your photo reference when preparing to do a painting. Larger sweeping brush work makes a bigger impact when covering your surfaces, set aside your smaller brushes for this workshop. We will be working with 2 inch house brushes and other large brushes sizes to medium size brushes.
Whether it be a landscape, cityscape, portrait, seascape, or still life, this workshop will entice you to be less dependent on the photo reference and allow you to make more creative decision making
which will not only enhance the way you approach your work, but also allow you to achieve the painterly effects you desire in your work.
Realism meets abstraction, finding a balance between reality and abstraction is the place where the magic happens. Create a mood, and emotional climate where mystery and intrigue unite to create a painting that really makes an impact on your viewers. Workshop is done in oil colors, intermediate to advanced painters will thrive here, this workshop is not suited for beginning painters.
We will discuss these elements:
- Mark Making, medium, thick vs thin when and when to use
- How to apply layers of paint to build up your surface
- Color mixing, color temperature, relationships between colors
- Interpretation of a photo reference and how to best translate it on to your board or canvas
Materials Used:
Oil paint - your choice which ones you want to use
Paper Towels
Palette Knife
Disposable or Glass Palette
Brushes, a variety is best from very large to medium, bring only 1 or 2 smaller ones
Oderless Mineral Spirits
Liquin
Photo Reference of your choice
Wet wipes
Suggested color for use, but not limited to these:
White
Blue black
Van dyke brown
Alizarin crimson
Any shade of Blue
Different kinds of Yellows
Reds
Dioxazine Purple
Flesh Ochre
Transparent Red Oxide
To register, please fill out the registration form HERE and proceed to payment. Please make sure to include student’s name in memo.
Payment methods:
Zelle: livandchiuartstudio@gmail.com
Venmo: @livandchiuartstudio
Apple Cash: 510-289-5472
