Painting - Painting with Imagination
Leland Cultural Arts Center • 1212 Magnolia Village Way Leland, NC 28451 Organized by Town of Leland, NCAbout this event
Description
Participants will approach the subject not only with observation of reference photos but with imagination, backed up by the artistic principles of composition and color. This program focuses on landscape by taking an idea and using simplification and harmony to create. For acrylic and oil painters. All skill levels.OPEN STUDIO TIME: While enrolled in a 6-week program at the LCAC, participants may use the program’s studio during non-instructional hours of operations.
Supply List For Painting the Imagined Landscape:
These are suggestions: No need to go out and buy all these, just go ahead and bring what you have.
Paint: These neutral colors:
Titanium white (Always—a big tube). If you have Zinc white as well, bring it.
Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, and Payne’s Grey can come in handy.
As a minimum you need the three primary colors (red, blue, yellow), with warm and cool versions of each hue—you could reduce this to two reds, two blues and two yellows if you want to minimize, and you will have enough to mix everything.
Suggested combinations:
Yellow: One warm: Cadmium Yellow medium
One cool: Lemon, Cadmium Yellow pale or Hansa yellow pale
Blue: One warm: Ultramarine or Cobalt
One cool: Cerulean or Prussian
Red: One warm: Vermillion or Cad Red light
One cool: Alizarin Crimson
Secondary colors can be added:
Green: Sap Green
Phthalo, Viridian or Hooker
Violet: Cobalt violet
Dioxezine violet
Brown: Burnt Umber
Raw Umber or Van Dyke
Acrylic painters: Some substitutions will happen if you’re using modern pigments—just try for warm and cool versions of your basic colors.
Supports: Bring several small supports: Gessoed water color paper can be used (gesso not necessary for acrylic painters). Arches for Oil Paper, or Canvas Paper; Canvas-boards;
Stretched canvas; Wood panels (these must have a gesso coat). Keep to a size range of 9x12 to 11x14, as we have limited time to paint, and may just be “sketching” in paint.
Solvent: GamSol or turpenoid for oils.
Medium: GamSol and linseed oil mixed 50-50 in a jar, or Weber Resingel or Gamblin Galkyd for faster drying—whichever medium you like—or none if you paint thickly. Acrylic painters might like retardant and gel medium.
Brushes and Palette Knives:
Let’s try for large-ish brushes: Flats, 1/4”, 1/2” and 1” wide….or a painting knife.
Palette: I use a covered palette or a butcher’s tray, with palette paper (or freezer paper).
And of course, apron, rags and paper towels. Don’t forget your photos to paint from: I prefer that they be your own images rather that from a magazine or someone else’s work. Look for some different types of sky and water, and we’ll try to address some specific ideas.