3-Day Still Life Painting Workshop

Students will create a still life painting over the course of the workshop with hands on instruction and demonstrations. We will be focusing on “keying” a picture from the very beginning in direct paint, establishing all of the most important color/value, drawing and edge qualities in the setup from the outset. Patrick will demonstrate how he sets up objects to paint, and what he looks to put on canvas in a specific, yet very simple order. The second day of painting on wet canvas will be demonstrated on Saturday to show the next level of development of a painting. Students will leave the class with a strong grasp on representing any set of objects and the effects that they create together in a picture plane. We will be painting from objects chosen by the instructor and will make compositions that are simple, involving 3 items.

Schedule

Materials List:

• Palette (not a tiny one)
• Brushes (Bristle rounds and synthetic flats varying sizes. You honestly won’t need more than a big, middle and maybe a small size for each of these. Less is more)
• Odorless Mineral Spirits
• Brush washer container
• Clip on palette cups for mineral spirits
• Clip on book light (the room we work in is artificially lit, so you will need this for your palette set up)
• Paper towels
• Glove(s) at your preference
• 11 x 14”, 12 x 9” or 12 x 16” canvas (canvas is preferred over panel for this class)
• Palette knife
• Hand mirror

Paints:
(make sure they are artist grade, NOT student grade ex: NOT Gamblin 1980, Winsor “Winton”. Artist Quality Winsor is always a safe bet for paint)

• Ivory black
• Raw Umber
• Pthalo Turquoise
• Ultramarine Blue
• Titanium White
• Cadmium Lemon
• Cadmium Yellow Deep
• Cadmium Scarlet
• Alizarin Crimson
• Dioxazine Purple

Optional Colors:

• Cold Black Williamsburg
• Light Red Winsor Newton
• Transparent Gold Ocher Winsor Newton
• Transparent Oxide Brown Winsor Newton
• Green Gold Winsor Newton
• Yellow Green Utrecht
• Sap Green (Utrecht or other brands)