Painting the still life is a wonderful way to hone your painting skills and is a foundational tool for painting all subjects, including landscapes and figures. You will explore light, color, three- dimensional form, hard and soft edges, creating depth in the picture plane and composition.  The instructor, gallery artist Joanne Geisel, will provide exercises in color theory and color mixing and give demonstrations and lots of individual and group instruction.

Supplies:

Stretched canvas or canvas boards: 8″ x 10″, 9″ x 12″ or 11″ x 14″ – One canvas for each day of class (total of three)

Paints:

Cadmium Yellow Light

Ultramarine blue

Cadmium red light

Burnt Umber or Raw Umber

Titanium white

Warm blue such as Cerulean or Thalo

Alizarin Crimson

Brushes:

Sizes 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 Silver Bristlon flat preferred

Other:

Metal palette knife

Palette (disposable paper palette or freezer paper are fine)

Paper Towels

Odorless Turpenoid or odorless mineral spirits (No turpentine)

Small container with crew top for Turpenoid

Smock

Pencil

Plastic gloves (optional)

Color wheel

• Date: Monday, November 10 – Wednesday, November 12
• Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Location: Art in Bloom Gallery classroom
• Instructor: Joanne Geisel