Getting Emotion into your painting

By April 18, 2022
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  • July 11, 2024 - August 29, 2024
    11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Does your artwork lack the ability to move people the way you hoped it would. Maybe you’re painting things and not emotions. All paintings should be about getting someone to react to your work and that means injecting emotion into it. How can we do that. This class will focus on just that. Making decisions that will enhance your work. Painting light, using the correct palette, adding brushstrokes, even selecting the right images. Bring your supplies and your talent and raise your work to a new level.

Location

Location: Mispillion Art League, 5 North Walnut Street, Milford, DE 19971

”Materials

Materials:

For Oil based Oils you can use:Gamblin Paint, Utrecht, Winsor Newton or equivalent-  For water based Oil paints you can use: Daniel Smith, royal talent cobra, Winsor Newton Artisan, and Grumbacher Max. Do Not use student grade paint, you will only have to replace it as you get better. Since it will not mix well and lacks intensity you put yourself at a disadvantage from the start.

  1. Cadmium Lemon Yellow or cadmium free Lemon Yellow
  2. Cadmium Yellow medium or cadmium free Yellow Medium
  3. Cadmium Orange or cadmium free Orange
  4. Yellow ochre
  5. burnt sienna
  6. Cadmium Red light or cadmium free Red light
  7. Alizarin Crimson
  8. Ultramarine Blue
  9. Pthalo Blue
  10. Titanium White
  11. Zinc White

Get a good or intermediate quality brush. Get both bristle brushes and soft synthetic or sable brushes . Look for quality brushes ( suggested : Robert Simmons, Isabey, or Rosemary brushes are all good.
Synthetic sizes: Round,2 ; Filbert 8,10,
bristle sizes: Bright 2,6, Filbert,4,8; Flat4

A variety of painting knifes with wood handlese. At a minimum get a small triangle and a medium triangle knife.

Palette cup for medium and a metal/ plastic or glass cup that seals to hold turpentine. An example would be the stainless steel brush washer that Judsons art makes…     https://www.judsonsart.com/collections/brush-washers/products/guerrilla-painter-10oz-brush-washer

Odorless turpenoid ( blue and white can only)  do not get the all natural one

Refined linseed or walnut oil

A color Wheel

a palette (either wood, glass or paper)

rags or paper towels

canvas or canvas panels, suggested sizes 8 x10, or 11 x 14 or 16 x 20 and a long horizontal (12″ x 24″, 10″ x 20″ are examples, but any similar size)

view finder (google view catcher)

Contact me if you work in acrylics, If you prefer to  work in water based oils the list is almost the same except you will not need the odorless turps, (instead get a water based solvent) ,and you have to replace the linseed oil with a water based medium.

Participant Information

Max Students: 10 Students
Proficiency level: Beginner through advanced